Have you ever thought about what might happen if you gave a blind kid a sword? Or…what might be possible?

I recently saw a story on msnbc’s “Making a Difference” segment about a Cuban-born immigrant who is teaching students to Fence at two Boston area schools for the blind.

Fencing has been great for these students because it teaches them better balance, coordination and physical orientation to their surroundings. However, what struck me the most about this story is how learning to fence has expanded these students’ vision.

Not literally, of course. But by learning a new skill that they never would have thought possible given their limitations, they are achieving new levels of personal potential.

I am left wondering, what’s my fencing foil? What’s the tool that I am most afraid to pick up that could help me craft a vision of a more powerful future for myself? And who are those coaches in my life, the more knowledgeable others, who see what I can’t?

The old addage says that seeing is believing. What I have learned from these students is that believing really has nothing to do with seeing, but everything to do with vision.