Authors, Explore the Practicality of the Abundant Spirit of Possibility Thinking

15 of 28 big ideas from the world of coaching to grow your author business

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The fifteenth in a 28-part series on 28 big ideas from coaching for authors to coach themselves, adapted from my book, The Coach Within.

“The possible’s slow fuse is lit by imagination.”

— Emily Dickinson

“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 are always there.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”

— J.K. Rowling

As so much of coaching is working with clients who want to open new doors and make new realities available to them, possibility thinking is a touchstone resource coaches and clients visit regularly in their work together. In the abundant spirit of possibility itself, possibility thinking has at least three possible dimensions, all readily accessible for your work with yourself:

First and fundamentally, there’s the sense of not whether or not something “is” possible or “if” it’s possible, but How is it possible? And, What would make…