What If… or What’s Possible?

TL;DR: possibility is where life actually happens - make the choice.

We often mistake running simulations for making decisions.

We play out every what-if:

What if it doesn’t work?

What if I fail?

What if I look silly?

What if I can’t do it?

You don’t decide your way forward by rehearsing outcomes.

Clarity doesn’t come before the decision. It comes because of it.

There’s a fork in the road most of us face again and again.

One path is "what if." It feels responsible, and it gives you a sense of safety—but nothing actually changes.

The other path is possibility. Not certainty. Not a guarantee. Just the willingness to find out.

Possibility doesn’t ask you to know the ending.

It asks you to participate.

What I’ve noticed, in my own life and in my work with others, is that many of us don’t give up because we tried and failed. We give up because of the what-ifs; we never let ourselves try at all. We live in the imagined future instead of the lived one.

And here’s the question I want to offer you this week: Are you living in the what if… or in the possibility?

If you’re open to it…

• Name one thing you’ve been holding in what-if mode.

• Ask yourself: What’s the smallest way I could step toward the possibility instead?

• Then do that one thing.

Because clarity doesn’t come from avoiding risk. It comes from engaging with it.

It doesn’t matter whether it works. What matters is your willingness to find out. I’d love to know what possibility you’re choosing.