{"id":3334,"date":"2012-06-19T07:19:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T11:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/blissblog\/?p=3334"},"modified":"2012-06-19T07:19:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T11:19:43","slug":"possibilitarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2012\/06\/possibilitarian.html","title":{"rendered":"Possibilitarian"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Art by Kelly Rae Roberts.<\/p>\n

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“Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there.”– Norman Vincent Peale<\/p>\n

I was raised with\u00a0no limits thinking, by parents who\u00a0modeled\u00a0finding solutions for nearly any issue that faced me.\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0love the idea of infinite possibility, senses wide open to all that could occur on any given day, and yet there have been times in my life when I would feel stuck in the muck, mud and mire, unsure which direction to turn. When that would occur, I would, figuratively speaking, throw up my hands and ask “Why bother?”\u00a0 The answer was always another question:\u00a0 “Do you want things to get better, stay the way they are, or get worse?” In my unconscious, go with the flow….whateveh….attitude, things would sometimes indeed take a turn for the worse. It\u00a0 felt like the proverbial snowball, picking up speed as it would roll downhill and run me over.\u00a0 It was when I got tired of picking myself up off my tush and shaking off the symbolic cold, white stuff, that I realized that prevention is better than repair. These days, I no longer see things as impossible<\/em><\/strong>; rather, turning it around to ‘I’m possible’<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 The\u00a0 Norman Vincent Peale quote reminds me that if I am only\u00a0gazing at the level of the problem, I can’t see beyond it to a solution. When I literally raise my sights, I can view an answer that may have been there all along. There was also a time when I would avoid conflict at all costs; and it did indeed cost me. I traded honest relationships, sleep, peace of mind, self confidence and personal integrity for the pseudo-safety that came with not rocking the boat. These days, I go into most situations, assuming cooperation and that the solution is always available. Creative thinking always unearths answers. Asking “Hmmmm…I wonder if…..I wonder how…?” evokes solutions that awe-me-over.<\/p>\n

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