Life Well Lived #12: What If You Could Not Fail?

Dwell in possibility.ย  โ€“ Emily Dickinson

Make a list.ย In his book Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking, Rev.ย Robert Schuller asked, “What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?”

What a question! What is Possibility Thinking?ย  Business leader, success coach and author John Maxwell answers, “Possibility thinking is the willingness to see possibilities everywhere, instead of limitations.”

What happens when a marvelous possibility is identified? Dr. Phil has ten strategies for success. They start with:

  • Vision: Clearly see the goal.
  • Strategy:ย Writeย plans. [Go beyond thinking to inking a timeline.]
  • Flex: Allow adjustments and insights that could improve results.
  • Read more.

In this week’s special video [below], actor Denzel Washington suggests preparingย to fallย forward instead of making back-up plans. Join over 26,000,000 whoย learned why.

“True desire in the heart for anything good is Godโ€™s proof to you, sent beforehand to indicate that itโ€™s yours already.”
These words are fromย Denzel Washington’s Commencement addresses at Pennsylvania and Dillard Universities. To see the inspiring speech, click on his picture.

Here’s the transcript.

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BookTube

BookTube is a YouTube world where everything from book hauls [announcements of book purchases] to books reviews are broadcast.Styles range from Wisecrack’s Thug Notes [summaries and analyses of classics in gangster speak]ย  to Snazzy Reads [recommendations from a ten-year-old ‘dapper dude’].

Some BookTube channels have hundreds of thousands, even millions of subscribers, likeย Comicstorian, who dramatically reads all kinds of comic books.

Here’s Reedsy’s list ofย  BookTube channels [171 and growing]. And here are five tips for starting your own.

Keep reading!!

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“Bright Red” was photographed with a Nikon CoolPix camera and ‘developed’ with Adobe Photoshop Elements 14.ย  In addition to enrhancing the color saturation, hue and vibrance, the image was enriched through the Watercolor filter.

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Sandra Gould Ford is an author, educator and former steelworker who presents arts experiences to encourage, refresh, enrich creative thinking and inspire. She belongs to the Authorโ€™s Guild and Science Fiction Writers of America and is a former member of the American Society of Media Photographers. For more information, visit her web site: SandraGouldFord.com.

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