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Carolyn Smagalski
Creative Imagination
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George Bernard Shaw said, "You see things; and you say, "Why?"
But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
Imagination. The seeds of the future, without which we would
still be living in caves, picking berries and searching for
water.
Gloria Steinem put it succinctly. "Without leaps of
imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of
possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."
Several years ago, I flashed into a convenience store early on
a Saturday morning, rushing to the coffee counter to grab my
daily caffeine buzz. I have a generally happy demeanor, even
when I am rushing.
In my hurried state, I exchanged a few agreeable words with a
fellow customer, after which he offered me a free ticket to a
seminar on "Goals." The speaker was none other
than Mark Victor Hansen, co-author of the Chicken Soup
for the Soul books.
I was quite ecstatic! Strangely so. You see, I had never
thought about setting goals in my life.
Although I was completely unaware of the magnitude of this
small gesture, it was a life-altering moment.
Once you begin to set goals, to dream of the possibilities, to
believe that it can happen for you, forces that create a new
reality are put into motion.
Napoleon Hill speaks of this in Think and Grow Rich,
a book that sprung from the philosophy of Andrew Carnegie, the
steel magnate of the industrial age. Andrew Carnegie
was a strong proponent of dreaming and setting goals. This
one little action is the catapult to your major ability to
take action that will change your life!
You can paint any picture you dream for your life. You must
believe it is a possibility, and build congruency with your
thoughts by the actions you take. In the words of Henry David
Thoreau: "The world is but a canvas to the imagination."
Dream...Set
goals...Act...
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