What becomes possible when you change the time frame for it?

We were defeated. More correctly, we were defeated this year. There’s an important difference.

When projects don’t end up the way we want them to, there’s almost indefinitely some sort of disappointment. Some sort of feeling of defeat and misshappening. There’s no need for that feeling.

I’ve been working with a couple of colleagues on a project for a couple of months now, where we’d like to get a cruise ship to go to one of the worlds largest democracy happenings — Almedalsveckan at Gotland, Sweden. We started planning last fall, and today we recognised that we’re not going to make it to this years event with a ship. It is disappointing, just as well as a relief.

My colleague said something quite remarkable during the meeting. “Something that I’ve found possible to experiment with in the space between possible and impossible is the factor of time.” What that means is that something might be impossible until you change the time frame in which it can happen.

In our case it’s the difference between sending a boat to Gotland this year, and next year. This year is impossible, next year isn’t.

Use time to your advantage, and use it to work for you. What’s possible if you change the time frame for it to happen? Is that something you can explore, and even execute on?