The "What If" Game

I like to play the "What If" game with myself sometimes. When I am trying to find a solution to a problem or a challenge, I try to ask myself many what ifs, create different scenarios in my head and imagine different outcomes. And one of those what ifs, can be a great solution to your problem!

What if you have a million dollars right now, what would you do? How would you spend it? What kinds of feelings does it give you?

What if you have your ideal career, what would it look like? What would you be doing? How are you contributing to society? Are you passionate and happy with your work?

What if you have a perfect relationship, how does that feel like? What kind of person is he or she? How do you interact with that person?

What if you can be anywhere in the world, where would you be right now? What are you doing there? What are you feeling?

What if you have a magic wand, and you can make any wish come true. What would it be? How does that change your life?

What if there is no war...

What if there is no unclear weapons...

What if racism does not exist....

What if.. what if....

The "What If" game is great for sparking our imagination, and it helps us to think outside of the box. It is a great tool for visualization, and pushes us to imagine something that is outside of our everyday experience.

The truth of the matter is, we have a lot more power in our life than we think. We can create a life full of possibilities if we can be not limited by our vision, and what we think we can or cannot achieve. If we can envision something with the "what if" game and see an end result, we may just find ways to achieve what we dream of. Hey, you may even make a scientific discovery by asking "what if"!

So go ahead! Keep "what if-ing" and imagine the world full of potential and possibilities! Visualize your success!

What is your "what if"?

Creativity and Imagination Part 1

I am going to talk about creativity a lot since this is a subject that is close to my heart. I am a performing artist, and creativity is a vital part of my life.

But creativity is also a vital part of EVERYONE'S life! You can use creativity in how you run a meeting at work, how to decorate your house, finding new ways to spice up your marriage, gifts ideas, how to teach your children, bringing your career to the next level etc etc etc. It all requires our imagination and creativity.

One thing I know for sure is that if you can see it in your head, then you can make it happen. So visualization is a vital tool to get our creative juices and imagination going. (I will write about visualization in future posts). Here are a few quotes that helps us to be more creative. I have collected these quotes from different authors and books:

"It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be" by Paul Arden
(Yes, visualize, visualize, and visualize your success!!! Literally see, feel, hear, taste the events that you want happen in your life. Spend sometime and daydream a little! It's totally legal!)

"Don't be afraid of silly ideas"
(I say the sillier the better!!! I am sure that someone thought that being able to fly in the sky was a real silly idea once, or that it is real silly to think that we can reach the moon, even sillier to think that in 2009, CNN and many other people are all of a sudden "twittering"! I mean, even if we talked about twittering two years ago, you would be like, "huh?". Well, all of this happened because people were not afraid of their "silly" ideas. Hey, be "silly"! Great ideas come from imagining the unimaginable!

"Stop worrying about being right"
If we are worried about being right, that's self censorship right there, and that's the #1 creativity killer. Let your ideas fly, regardless of being right or wrong. Very often, the "right" ideas come out of the "wrong" ones.

"If you get stuck, draw with a different pen"
Change your tools, change your angle, change the way you have always done things. Try something new!

So guys, go for it! Go for the wrongs, go for the new and inventive, never before done, and silly way of doing things, visualize the end results!

Wendy the (Inspirational) Trainer