What if...

What if you could sing?
What if you could dance?
What if you went back to school?
What if you looked at someone you didn't like through different eyes?

What if we we could change our thinking? Change our behavior? Change our lives? I suppose what if goes along with my "yes, and..." idea from improv. "What if" is at the heart of all child's play. Of course, kids don't ask themselves this outright, but it's true...what if I were a fairy princess? what would I do?

I think as adults, we forget to ask "what if." We are too solidly rooted in what we call "what is." We don't have time to consider possibilities, after all, because we know "what is." But what if "what is"...isn't? What if we create "what is"? What if we were to pause for just a moment and ask ourselves "what if"?

What if she DIDN'T mean it that way?
What if he really wasn't qualified for this position?
What if I've accomplished more than I think?
What if I try to sing? or dance? or learn accounting?

"What if" could be a good thing for us grown ups to consider. For businesses too.

What if our customers want it?
What if we found a way to try something new?
What if we worked together differently?

It's easy to say no. It's easy to go with what we believe is "what is." Take the harder road. Someone once said, if there are two choices and one is more difficult, choose the more difficult route--it is the one you will learn by. Okay--maybe no one said that exactly, but that's the idea. Take the difficult route, say "yes, and..." then ask yourself..."what if?" and see what you come up with.