Imagination – Not Just for Kids Anymore
“Make believe.” Check out its definition at dictionary.com and you’ll see that when you use it as a noun, it means “pretense, especially of an innocent or playful kind; feigning; sham.” And when you use it as an adjective, it means “pretended; feigned; imaginary; made-up; unreal.”
Well, that’s pretty much what I learned growing up. Imagination, the capacity to make believe, is a function designed for our amusement, a kind of built-in toy. It is great fun to imagine.
Yet if you read about the word “make,” the definitions say:
“to bring into existence by shaping or changing material;” and “to produce; cause to exist or happen; bring about.”
(Hmmmm. Sounds like some kind of alchemy to me. I think we have a clue here.)
Leaping over to “believe,” we find “to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so.”
So if you’re doing make believe, you’re causing something to exist or happen and you have confidence in the truth and reality of it. And what was it that Napoleon Hill said? “What your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” That’s some pretty heady stuff!
I say grab your big shiny “What If” hook and go fishing in the Cosmic Soup of Possibilities. There’s no telling what you might find. Imagine!
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You know Susan, just about everyone I’m reading these days sums up their work pretty much the same way… after I’ve read all their other stuff, of course. LOL In fact, two of my favorite reads – Abraham and Dr. Robert Anthony – need only two to three words
BE HAPPY! The third word is often important to throw in because we’re so programmed for delayed gratification. What is that third word?
NOW!
So putting it all together, the entire purpose of life is to BE HAPPY NOW! And when you get that part right, the Universe will reward you by sending you MORE stuff about which to BE HAPPY NOW!
The bottom line reason why anyone does anything is so that they can BE HAPPY NOW. So just cut to the chase – actually stop chasing all the other people, places and things you think will bring you happiness – and just BE HAPPY NOW. Then all those people, places and things will start chasing YOU!
BE HAPPY NOW!
All the best from Toronto,
Russ