Answer to a better question
It’s a question that is both inspiring and impractical unless it’s only an exercise.
It’s a question that may imply magic wand thinking in the same space as it reinforces the status quo.
There is always a gap.
Do you know the question? Do you want to know the question?
Wait, before you answer, it’s prudent to mention:
- if the question touches your burning desire, your purpose, your reason for being well, it’s going to make the life you have less shimmery and your bubbliciously sweet circle of goodness might feel like it’s now stuck to the bottom of your shoe for a little while.
Now, do you still want to know the question?
What would you do if you had all the money, time and skills you need to do it?
The question implies no limits. Ahhhh limitlessness. The creative, imaginative, daydreaming self appreciates that there is nothing to stop us from doing what we would do. Nothing.
Not. One. Damn. Thing.
Ah yes but there is the practical matter of limits isn’t there?
We are limited to 24 hours.
We are limited in money, skills, capacity – emotional, mental, physical and intellectual.
We are limited by beliefs that say we need – a, b and c and conditioned to add x, y and z in order to be, do and have.
We use the limits
We either use the limits as an excuse or …
We have the ability to use our limits if we think AND act differently. Yet to think and act in new ways requires accepting new beliefs and outing the old ones.
And we don’t want to believe a new belief because our old one is serving us so well (that’s a little sarcasm)- what with it keeping us away from what we would do and all.
If we didn’t have to believe any new beliefs right away and instead stayed open to at least the possibility of believing the new belief, is that enough of a start?
That’s how we went from walking to boats, to horses, to carriages, to locomotives and cars, to flying in airplanes, to instantportation. What, you haven’t read Johnathon Livingston Seagull?
Someone stayed open to the possibility of a new belief and then experimented and got a result. And did some thing differently. And talked to someone else, maybe. And did yet another small thing and in a different way and another and another and finally succeeded (Oh and they defined the success as well.)
Without acknowledging the possibility of the new belief, it’s both simple and easy to dismiss what we would do. And what we would do, never becomes what we do, because we allowed those limits with money, time, skills and beliefs, to stop us.
We don’t lose the ability to believe what we’ve always believed. It just becomes more of a hassle to believe it yes?
When we bring curiosity together with possibility of a new belief and begin poking around the edges of the clearly accepted limited belief we already hold …
Ohhhh. Ahhhh. Argh. Uhhh …
Yes. I understand.
Change is scary.
We want everything to remain exactly how it is right now because it’s working so mindlessly for us …
Everything changes, regardless. Change is the only constant.
So tell me in the comments, what would you do if you had limited time, money and skills and mixed it with the possibility of a new belief to do it?
