How About Instead...

Posted on January 23, 2020 by dragonspitapothecary

How about instead …

There are so many ways the rest of that sentence can go. In fact as I worked on this post I wrote a lot of things at the end of that sentence that would end up being scratched off to the point I needed new paper in the process. Yes I still draft many of my posts with pen and paper because sometimes it feels good to write something down. I actually carry a little notebook in my handbag and will jot things down as ideas come up. Sometimes I will outline an entire series of posts and others it’s just a feeling, thought or idea. This time when I went to my notebook to write posts I saw this page with three words at the top and a long list of scratched off items below it.

How about instead…

These words stared back at me just waiting for my response almost like a mocking challenge. Dare you it said back at me.

Over the course of weeks I would look at those words and think how interesting they were together. It was like a different realm opened; one with possibility, challenges and twists that offered promise.

How about instead …what though?

See the challenge with these three words is you can’t just stop saying something. Once you see these words carefully placed together you realize you can’t stop at just how. You have to say a lot when you use these three words together. You have to go deeper and brush pass the surface level that can happen if you use just one or two of those words. How leads to a totally different response than how about instead. Instead asks you to compare and as I found in developing this post it literally calls out your own bs when you try to skate pass some lame excuse for why not. Yes we always have a good why not in our back pocket for when we don’t want to do something don’t

we?

How do you …

How could you…

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