it's not impossible - please meet "Prove It"

Meet Prove It, my Inner Skeptic. Hello, Prove It. How are you today? Not sure. Okay.

I love Prove It. If I didn't have Prove It, I'd be just jumping on every bandwagon and drifting after every last crazy idea.

Thank you Prove It for keeping me straight, for helping me validate, experience, gain proof. You've kept me focused and I love ya.

I've developed a pretty nice relationship with Prove It over the last few years. We get along well now that we've stopped resisting each other and understand each other's roles. See, Meredith is meant to explore and learn and grow and stretch and try on new ideas and work through them. And Prove It is meant to keep Meredith in check. We collaborate.

There's a trick I've found to settling Prove It's intensity when he gets a bit out of hand. I remind Prove It that for some things, it can be a bit hard to prove but we've got lots of interesting evidence, enough to explore more anyway, so let's go. It's hard to prove 'I love you" too, afterall.

So...Prove It can sometimes be settled (though not sated) with the words....
"It's not impossible that _________________ is true."
I can't really prove it's true. But I can't really prove it isn't true either. So no need to get stuck. It's really not impossible that it is true. Keep going.

I so recommend getting to know and work with your inner skeptic. It's fabulously liberating.

Motto as of late: "And you don't believe it!??? That's shocking."

special shout out to fellow superblogger...i'm test driving a "motto" ending. totally dig your listening and feeling clever summarizers...may i adapt/adopt??