2. THE 12 POSSIBILITY PRACTICES:
1. IT’S ALL INVENTED
2. STEPPING INTO A UNIVERSE OF POSSIBILITY
3. GIVING AN A
4. BEING A CONTRIBUTION
5. LEADING FROM ANY CHAIR
6. RULE NUMBER 6
7. THE WAY THINGS ARE
8. GIVING WAY TO PASSION
9. LIGHTING A SPARK
10. BEING THE BOARD
11. CREATING FRAMEWORKS FOR POSSIBILITY
12. TELLING THE WE STORY
3. IT’S ALL INVENTED
The First Practice
Everything in life is an invention. The way we see things. The way we measure things.
The way we compete. The way we judge ourselves. Everything we know about the world
around us is actually filtered through our mental stories. You pick up selective info about the
environment with your 5 senses - your brain interprets the info - you have a conscious
experience. By the time you’re conscious of something, your brain has already gone through
a complex process of info-selection, cue-matching, and story-telling.
STEPPING INTO A UNIVERSE OF POSSIBILITY
The Second Practice
If it’s all invented, you might as well invent a life that benefits you. Invent a frame of
possibilities. We live in a “world of measurement” where everything is evaluated against
goals, standards, and comparisons. All human struggles—including our fears, doubts, and
disappointments—are built on the hidden assumption that we must fight to survive in a world
of scarcity and danger. This practice is about shifting to an abundance mindset and tapping
into an infinite universe of possibilities.
4. GIVING AN A
The Third Practice
If you automatically assume the best and give everyone an A in life, then you let the best
come out in them and you remove a lot of the barriers that have been the relationship back.
Imagine that you graded all of the people in your life. Think about the way the grade you give
influences your willingness to listen and appreciate that person. You’ll notice that giving people
an “A,” instead of a lower grade, will provide you with a greater capacity to listen, understand,
and appreciate that person. So instead of judging quickly and jumping to potentially false
conclusions, give everyone you meet an A to start. The practice of giving an A transports your
relationship from the world of measurement into the universe of possibility.
BEING A CONTRIBUTION
The Fourth Practice
If you want to give back, don’t worry too much about the outcome. Start giving back, and
you’ll find that your contribution operates like a pebble in a pond; it will send positive ripples in
all kinds of unexpected directions. Instead of focusing on how you measure up, focus on how
you contribute to the world around you. Contribution is not measured based on other people.
It’s only measured based on what you put into the world around you.
5. LEADING FROM ANY CHAIR
The Fifth Practice
A leader who feels he is superior is likely to suppress the visions of the very people he
needs to rely on to succeed. The conductor can lead the most powerful orchestra in the world
but does not make a sound. His or her only power is in getting the players to produce the
beautiful sound they are capable of. It is about finding and unlocking the hidden passion and
commitment that exists in every person, rather than assume that your approach/ standards
are the best.
RULE NUMBER 6
The Sixth Practice
Rule Number 6 is ‘Don’t take yourself so damn seriously.’
If you are worried about making a mistake, imagine that a 500-pound cow will fall on
your head. We tend to look for external threats when in reality, it’s our own fears, views, and
positions that truly stand in the way of our rewarding experiences. Learn the difference
between your “calculating self” vs your “central self”, and why problems/issues may
magically melt away when you simply lighten up and learn to laugh at yourself and your
situation. When you are able to lighten up, you also lighten those around you.
6. THE WAY THINGS ARE
The Seventh Practice
→ Clear the should – when your attention is primarily directed to how wrong things are, you
lose your power to act in the present
→ Close the exits, escape, denial and blame – stay with the feelings, whatever they are, and do
the heavy lifting in the present
→ Clear the judgment – good and bad are categories that humans impose on the world, they
are not of the world themselves
GIVING WAY TO PASSION
The Eighth Practice
This practice has two steps:
→ First Step – notice where you are holding back and let go. Release those barriers of self that
keep you separate and in control, and let the vital energy of passion surge through you,
connecting you to all beyond.
→ Second Step – participate wholly. Allow yourself to be a channel to shape the stream of
passion into a new expression for the world.
7. LIGHTING A SPARK The Ninth Practice
Enrolment is the energy behind this practice. This is the art and practice of generating a spark
of possibility for others. You have within you an infinite capacity to light a spark of possibility.
Passion is the igniting force. The practice of enrolment is about giving yourself as a possibility
to others and being ready, in turn, to catch their spark. The steps to the practice are:
→ Imagine that people are an invitation for enrolment
→ Stand ready to participate, willing to be moved, and inspired
→ Offer that which lights you up
→ Have no doubt that others are eager to catch the spark
BEING THE BOARD The Tenth Practice
This practice leans into the awareness that you are the framework for everything that happens
in your life. Gracing yourself with responsibility for everything that happens in your life leaves
your spirit whole, and leaves you free to choose again.
8. FRAMEWORKS FOR POSSIBILITY The Eleventh Practice
Here are the steps to invent and sustain the framework that brings forth possibility:
→ Make a new distinction in the realm of possibility; on the is a powerful substitute for the
current framework of meaning that is generating the downward spiral.
→ Enter the territory. Embody the new distinction in such a way that it becomes the
framework for your life around you.
→ Keep distinguishing what is “on the track” and what is “off the track” of your framework
for possibility.
TELLING A WE STORY The Twelfth Practice
Telling the WE story is all about practicing the invention of coming together, of connecting of
the stories that bind us together. The thought behind this isn’t about I/You in the traditional
form as these methods actually deprive people of creating a WE story. The WE practice is really
about integrating in a way that brings spontaneous evolution into creation.
