One of my favorite games in the world is “What If?”  I’ve shared it here in old posts and it’s time to bring it out again.  We’re in 2025 and the last 5 years have shown us all that ANYTHING is possible whether it be the most magical experience of our lives or the biggest nightmare that makes it feel like we aren’t living in reality—a twilight zone.  The time has come, however, to take control of that game again and start looking at possibilities in a different way.  This game covers any spectrum of idea from reading a book to leaving a job to moving to buying an RV to travel all over the country to leaving our partner to finding the right partner to picking up a pen and writing a book or opening a laptop and searching for help.  “What If?”  is an amazing gift and we were given not only the brain to imagine such things, but the capacity to fulfill it and make it happen if we so choose.  We overcomplicate so much with control and trying to anticipate every step along the way when all we really need to do is allow ourselves to get carried away every now and then.

So, my list: What if I publish my book sooner than I anticipated?  What if I find a new job?  What if my current job allows me to work from home more?  What if my husband gets a new job that affords me more time to focus on my projects?  What if we created the coolest space imaginable in our basement?  What if my garden becomes highly productive this year?  What if my work goes viral?  What if I get my first speaking gig?  What if we were able to go on that dream vacation to Universal this year?  What if my business takes off within the next few months?  What if I hit every milestone on my health goal?  What if I fall in love with this life as it is?  What if I stop pushing so hard to do all things at the same time and just focused on one main goal?  What if a new opportunity opens up where I’m at?  What if I look at the space differently and realize that certain facets of what I do are enjoyable—and what if those enjoyable pieces become a new opportunity for me?  What if this limbo is the sign I am looking for that it’s time to move on and write that new chapter?  What if we picked up the family business again? 

I ask myself what each of those scenarios feels like for me and it feels like freedom—any of them.  It feels like hope and possibility and something I want to make tangible.  I mean, I have ADD and OCD so sometimes this game can lead me down the path of future tripping and thinking about how to make each scenario happen—and I can talk myself out of each one of them just as quickly as I can imagine them.  But we play this game to realize the abundance we have, specifically the abundance of opportunity we have, and then to find what feels right to us.  Because the truth is that anything can happen.  Life is unpredictable in some regards, and people certainly have their moments of unpredictability as well so there really isn’t anything we should discount.  If it pops into our heads, then it’s a possibility.  Take some time to play what if—feel free to share the what if’s in your life here!