The sponsor form for the school club offered three options: $5, $10, or $20.

No blank line. No “other.” No flexibility.

Yes, one could donate more, but there wasn’t a prompt.

There’s value to defining goals and creating boundaries. When there are just a few options, it’s easier for us to choose … and more likely that we will.

But sometimes, it helps to remove the boundaries. To create an open space for others to fill in the blank. To intentionally include the possibility of what-if.

Besides: the most interesting things in life are a result of the blank lines, not from having selected the predetermined choices.