Working With Soul:
Step into Your Possibility Curve;
Step into Anxiety to Transform the
Ordinary into the Extraordinary

In photography, what turns a “Good Frame” into a “Great Frame”? In a word, Change: a change in the sky, the raise of an eyebrow, the unexpected flight of frightened snow geese or the slight turn of a hand. Award-winning photographer Dewitt Jones worships change in his work. Why? Because change always holds the most potential for capturing the “Great Frame.”

If Jones saw change’s value so clearly in his photography, it deeply puzzled him why it frightened him so in other areas of his life. Pondering his double-minded standard, he began to see that the change curve we hear so much about was really his ally––– not only in work, but in all of life. In fact, viewing it from a slightly different perspective, it was not a change curve at all–––it was a “Possibility Curve”!

In his video “Celebrate What’s Right With the World,” Jones flashed one frame after another across the big screen, hammering home his point: “‘Good Frame’—‘GREAT Frame.’ ‘Good Frame’—‘GREAT Frame’” again and again. Along with his live audience, I witnessed firsthand how having a vision, studying your technique, putting yourself in your place of most potential and then listening, watching and waiting with readiness for possibilities to emerge can literally transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.

We say we want things to be different out of one side of our mouth, yet we block possibilities for positive change out of the other side. Why? Change threatens. It’s risky. It means stepping into the unknown, loss of control; it can be difficult, frightening, even overwhelming. The bottom line becomes: “Do I risk change? Do I risk opening to possibilities? Or, do I remain the same?”

How do we clothe ourselves with this proposed “Possibility Curve” attitude? Jones says it begins with being willing, open, and having the desire to look for–––really seek out–––the next right answer. We have a choice. We can allow those pesky anxiety siblings of fear, doubt and uncertainty to nail us to the sidelines or we can choose to say “Yes” and dance with possibility. Eleanor Roosevelt said:

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.”

In other words, do it afraid. Like begets like. Fear begets fear; faith begets faith; visions of possibilities beget a pool of possibilities.