When it comes to your career options, how many do you see right now? Most of you will only see two or three. I see twenty for you. How you will ask? I’m not supernatural. I’ve just trained my mind to believe in possibility. And my experience coaching people like you validates it. Because roads open and new jobs arise. Every single time someone believes in the possibility for them. Easy, right?
Believing in new possibilities doesn’t come naturally
The problem is that getting to that place of possibility feels hard. It’s not innate, and on the contrary your mind tends to lean the other way. You believe in what you know for sure, or can comprehend. Your brain is wired to keep you grounded in what is familiar and safe. So possibility feels like potential danger. You get perplexed, or unsure. It feels radically unnatural. So you simply avoid it, or say you don’t know.
But possibility IS the road to the next step for you. As long as you keep this door closed, you will give yourself limited, only half appealing choices. Have you noticed how you try to convince yourself you want something? That’s because wanting something (else) new is just too scary. So you revert back to ‘safe’ known positions and try feeling good about them.
The whole point why you are re-thinking your work right now is to open up your possibilities. You need something fresh, new, different. That will stretch, stimulate and fulfill you. What you know right now probably isn’t it anymore. And you are ready for it, or you wouldn’t be asking yourself the question. So why think the same?
Letting yourself be fully open
Yes possibility is unspecified. Vague. A maybe. There is zero guarantee that it is even a good idea, or that it is doable. That is exactly the point! If you judge every single possibility the minute it pops into your mind, you will kill it way before you can even inspect it. This requires you stay comfortable with playing with something open in your mind. So often we just want to know – like right now. And then we want the certainty about it.
As long as you want to reassure yourself, you’ll resist possibility. And your greatest future step will probably slip away. Instead let go of wanting to know. Let the mind chatter about what it would require, or how much it would pay etc. fade away. Your whole goal is to capture new raw options. And keep going through the list. That’s how I can write twenty for you right now, whoever you are.
This belief in possibility is a pivotal skill to design your future. And the best part is that you have the brain for it! You just aren’t using it much. There might be some old shadows of past events, experiences or possibly trauma, that make you choose not to aim higher or wider. If that’s your case, coaching will show you how to clear those old blocks. Because a more exciting future awaits ahead.
How to dial up possibilities for you
So imagine for a minute that everything was possible for you. That you were fully deserving of every single opportunity. You were capable of anything. What would you put in your mental basket? Keep the ideas coming. Tap into your desires, your intuition and what inspires you. Try to challenge yourself to mentally explore. Reflect on what you liked in the past, what picks your interest, what people see in you.
As you do this, park any urge to analyse, sort or defuse ideas. That’s next. First you need to unearth all the possibilities and see how excited you feel about them.
So what are you going to go for? Deciding based on your current options? Or letting yourself believe in possibility and see what comes up?
If you find it challenging on your own, book a call with me and we’ll uncover plenty of these new possibilities for you. Either way, you’ve got to see beyond what you know right now. Amazing is on the other side waving hello.
