IMAGINE

Why do people set goals? Whether you want to go on vacation, buy a car, own a home, get a degree, advance in your job or solve a global challenge, goal setting is a way of prioritizing your resources; time, money and creativity to accomplish a desire. However, between where we stand and the future we want, there can be uncertainties and doubt.

There is an old Irish saying that goes something like this, “The devil you know is better than the devil you don’t know.” Its meaning suggests that it’s smarter or at least safer to exist in conditions that we already know than to wade into the unpredictable and potentially dangerous future. Evolution may agree.

Survival is hard-wired into the DNA of plants and animals. Human beings have a special alerting device which causes us to pay immediate attention to those things we perceive as dangerous. Because, before we can ever thrive, we must first survive. And herein lies the problem. We are prone to imagine the possibility of danger prior to imagining the possibility of success.

There are some simple hacks to override our natural tendency to get anxious about the future. For instance, have you ever heard that one good way to calm anxiety is to focus on your breathing? Don’t we breathe naturally? Of course. But focusing our thoughts on inhaling and exhaling keeps our imagination from focusing on fear or the awful. Pretty simple!

Around 50 years ago, Lou and Diane Tice assembled the best researched hacks for controlling one’s imagination in order to attain their desires. These techniques became the basis of The Pacific Institute’s curriculum and global acclaim. As children, we were great at using our imagination to create. We created friends, futures and worlds. Somewhere along the way, people seem to fall out of practice using their constructive imagination.

If you want to reinstitute the joy of living like a child again, get ahold of me. Unleash the creativity necessary to accomplish your goals and imagine the possibilities.