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Start With What If: Weekly Questions to Spark Immediate Change and Growth
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Most self-help books leave you thinking. Start With What If gets you moving—this week.
Through 52 weekly What If questions and the simple three-step What If Rule (Pause. Question. Go.), you'll learn to create better perspectives and options in real time. Not someday. Not after you finish the whole book. Starting with Week One.
Each What If question works as a small interrupter, breaking your usual patterns of thinking or reacting just long enough to create a better choice, a clearer direction, or a better next step.
This isn't about massive life overhauls or complicated systems. It's about asking one powerful question each week that shifts how you see a situation—then taking one meaningful action that changes what happens next.
What if this week, you let go of comparing yourself to others?
What if you said no to something you'd usually say yes to?
What if you caught yourself blaming and let it go?
Each question meets you where you are. Some will challenge you. Some will surprise you. A few might annoy you (those are usually the ones worth sitting with). But each one gives you something you can act on immediately.
Here's what you'll
How to turn everyday moments into momentumHow to break patterns that have held you back for yearsHow to build the kind of self-trust that makes future changes easierWhether you're leading a team, raising a family, navigating a career shift, or simply ready to live with more clarity and confidence, this book shows you how small, intentional questions create lasting change—one week at a time.
Doug Fleener went from broke, out-of-work drug addict to building a life he never thought possible—including becoming director of retail for Bose Corporation, CEO of a national company, and creating meaningful relationships that matter. His approach is grounded in decades of coaching, real-life transformation, and the belief that you can always create better perspectives and options—no matter where you're starting from.
One question. One week. One action.
Real change starts now.
Through 52 weekly What If questions and the simple three-step What If Rule (Pause. Question. Go.), you'll learn to create better perspectives and options in real time. Not someday. Not after you finish the whole book. Starting with Week One.
Each What If question works as a small interrupter, breaking your usual patterns of thinking or reacting just long enough to create a better choice, a clearer direction, or a better next step.
This isn't about massive life overhauls or complicated systems. It's about asking one powerful question each week that shifts how you see a situation—then taking one meaningful action that changes what happens next.
What if this week, you let go of comparing yourself to others?
What if you said no to something you'd usually say yes to?
What if you caught yourself blaming and let it go?
Each question meets you where you are. Some will challenge you. Some will surprise you. A few might annoy you (those are usually the ones worth sitting with). But each one gives you something you can act on immediately.
Here's what you'll
How to turn everyday moments into momentumHow to break patterns that have held you back for yearsHow to build the kind of self-trust that makes future changes easierWhether you're leading a team, raising a family, navigating a career shift, or simply ready to live with more clarity and confidence, this book shows you how small, intentional questions create lasting change—one week at a time.
Doug Fleener went from broke, out-of-work drug addict to building a life he never thought possible—including becoming director of retail for Bose Corporation, CEO of a national company, and creating meaningful relationships that matter. His approach is grounded in decades of coaching, real-life transformation, and the belief that you can always create better perspectives and options—no matter where you're starting from.
One question. One week. One action.
Real change starts now.
339 pages, Kindle Edition
Expected publication January 6, 2026
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About the author
Doug Fleener
3 books11 followersDoug Fleener is the author of Start With What If: Weekly Questions to Spark Immediate Change and Growth and The Day Makes the Year (Makes a Life).
After rebuilding his life from addiction, Doug discovered how small, intentional shifts can create lasting change—in your career, relationships, and everyday life.
His simple approach—Pause. Question. Go.—helps people see new perspectives and act on what truly matters.
Known as The What If Coach, Doug’s work and writing remind us that real growth often begins in ordinary moments. You’re one action away. Starting today.
After rebuilding his life from addiction, Doug discovered how small, intentional shifts can create lasting change—in your career, relationships, and everyday life.
His simple approach—Pause. Question. Go.—helps people see new perspectives and act on what truly matters.
Known as The What If Coach, Doug’s work and writing remind us that real growth often begins in ordinary moments. You’re one action away. Starting today.
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October 31, 2025
A terrific approach to making lasting change in life. I love self-help books that give practical tips you can use right away. Recommended!
November 13, 2025
Pause. Question. Go.
What should be simple steps to help change or create a habit.
I love the concept of this book. I love the "What If This Week...."!
I received this book from NetGalley and Five Leaf Clover Publishing, LLC in exchange for my honest review, which I am very grateful for!
The downside to receiving this as an ARC is I want to put these weekly questions into play! So I will be going back and looking at the prompts each week, working on myself!
The inflection chapters are powerful. Very hard realities with life. Blackouts. Addiction. Quitting school/work. Not everything is going to go perfect! Small steps can be big changes!
I think this is a great journal prompt, self-help, reflection book! A full year of prompts to keep you working on yourself!
What should be simple steps to help change or create a habit.
I love the concept of this book. I love the "What If This Week...."!
I received this book from NetGalley and Five Leaf Clover Publishing, LLC in exchange for my honest review, which I am very grateful for!
The downside to receiving this as an ARC is I want to put these weekly questions into play! So I will be going back and looking at the prompts each week, working on myself!
The inflection chapters are powerful. Very hard realities with life. Blackouts. Addiction. Quitting school/work. Not everything is going to go perfect! Small steps can be big changes!
I think this is a great journal prompt, self-help, reflection book! A full year of prompts to keep you working on yourself!
November 7, 2025
I received this book from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
I found “Start With What If” to be a really helpful and practical read.
I’m very familiar with the concept of wondering “what if…?!” from a negative point of view as I’ve got severe anxiety so I enjoyed this being reframed into a more positive and therapeutic action for many scenarios we’ll likely face in our lives and how we can approach them for a better outcome. I appreciated the prompts & tips provided as well as the guidance and it made me reflect a lot.
I also felt too that I would likely benefit from the physical copy when it’s released, as reading the Kindle version meant I couldn’t highlight pages and make notes.
Recommend!
I found “Start With What If” to be a really helpful and practical read.
I’m very familiar with the concept of wondering “what if…?!” from a negative point of view as I’ve got severe anxiety so I enjoyed this being reframed into a more positive and therapeutic action for many scenarios we’ll likely face in our lives and how we can approach them for a better outcome. I appreciated the prompts & tips provided as well as the guidance and it made me reflect a lot.
I also felt too that I would likely benefit from the physical copy when it’s released, as reading the Kindle version meant I couldn’t highlight pages and make notes.
Recommend!
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