If You Think Imagination Has Nothing to Do With Reality, You Are Wrong

Guest post by Remez Sasson

THE Wright brothers wanted to fly, and people considered them lunatics.

Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison and Bill Gates were considered as daydreamers, when actually, they were visualizing and imagining their vision.

Whatever they were imagining years ago, is now a solid reality.

Most people tend to treat imagination as something that has nothing to do with reality, but this is a wrong attitude.

Imagination has much to do with reality. It shapes the way we see our reality, and therefore, affects our expectations and hopes, our actions and behavior.

Imagination is like a software that programs our behavior, expectations and actions. This means that we have to be very careful with what we imagine, since what we see in our mind’s eye can become our reality.

If we imagine bad things, we program our mind accordingly, and sooner or later see, act and behave accordingly, and create what we imagined.

This also works the other way. Imagine good things, and this will affect your actions and behavior, which consequently, would create in your life what you imagined in your mind.

Your reality mirrors what goes on in your mind.

If you imagine yourself weak and poor, you will enact this part in your life. But if you imagine yourself powerful and rich, you will eventually become so.

Everything starts in the mind, and in the imagination. Your imagination is responsible, to a large extent, for the kind of life you are experiencing right now, and what goes on in your mind now, would affect your future.

* A business starts as a thought and a mental image.

* You first imagine yourself possessing a certain kind of car, and then you do something to get it.

* If you wish to lose weight, you start by imagining yourself slim and well-shaped. If this thought is clear and focused, and you allow no doubt, you will sooner or later find the ideas, the information, and the energy to do something about it.

* If you imagine yourself as an athlete, a teacher or an actor, and repeat this thought in your mind, day after day, this thought will drive you into action, and eventually would turn into reality.

* This is exactly how successful people become prosperous.

4 Reasons, Why Your Imagination Is Creating the Events in Your Life

1) When you imagine a certain thing, day after day, gradually, you start thinking about it most of the time. This will drive you instinctively to search for information about it, to become aware of opportunities concerning it, and to become motivated to accomplish what you imagined.

2) Using your imagination to build a mental picture of what you want, tells your subconscious mind that you really want it. Consequently, the subconscious mind will supply you the energy to do something about it, and will also make you aware of any opportunities that could make it a reality.

3) Your thoughts create a mental image of the object, situation or people you are thinking about, and in subtle ways, affect you and your environment.

Repeating the same scenario in your mind, affects your thinking, which in some way, affects the thoughts of other people, and attracts to you people, who think like you, and who can help you make your thought come true.

It is not a coincidence that sometimes, when you are looking desperately for a certain object, an answer to something that is troubling you, or for a specialist in a certain area, and all of a sudden the object or the answer pops up, or you find the person you are looking for.

4) You, through your imagination, are shaping your life’s events.

If you tend to worry, think negatively and expect failure, you are using your imagination in a negative manner. Eventually, you might get what you imagine... failure!

And vice versa. If you imagine and envision progress, promotion and successful results, you will attract opportunities and take action. You will see opportunities, which otherwise you would have missed. In this case, you will get what you imagine, success!

Imagine for yourself only the highest good

When you learn to be in command of your imagination, you control your destiny.

I have covered this subject in other of my articles, as also wrote about it extensively, and provided practical guidance and advice in my book Visualize and Achieve.

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Want To Be Extraordinary? Accept Failures!

By Michael Lee

DO you come across people who complain all day about their lives, but don't do a thing to change it? These are the people whose lives are fraught with inaction, and they lead a life that is unsatisfying and unfulfilling. Though they talk nineteen to a dozen and find faults with everyone and everything around them, they are scared that if they take the first step towards changing their own life, they will meet with failure.

They simply dread the idea of stepping out of the self-made protective cocoon that they have built around themselves and simply spend their entire lives complaining. You would not want to be grouped with these kind of people, would you?

Step out and aim for the life of your dreams

It is easier said than done though, as there is no shortcut to success. So if you are really passionate about something but feel yourself stuck in something you are not meant to do, you need to start taking action. And the action must be taken now!

The Important Of Taking Chances.

In the words of Theodore Roosevelt "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

Roosevelt in these immortal lines urges everyone to take chances. Taking chances is the one thing you need to do in order to start leading a better life!

By taking chances, we don't mean that you should risk putting up all of your life's savings in a casino! By taking chances, we mean stepping out of your comfort zone and doing what you have always dreamed of!

For instance, if you have always wanted to be a writer, do not be afraid of your manuscript getting rejected. Write for yourself, write from your heart and just as the nightingale did with the rose, color your stories with the last drop of blood in your heart!

Take Chances and Follow Your Dreams.

When you follow a life of passion, you will see that even the Universe will conspire to make things happen in your favor. Good things will automatically fall into place for those people who have really decided to follow their passion, despite the difficulties and challenges ahead.

But until you muster up all the courage in you and step out, you will never really know what taking chances is all about!

Many people are afraid to take risks and remain comfortable in their current status in life, but you must also remember that that is exactly why their lives remain mediocre. Nothing that they do is ever ground-breaking! And they have the nerve to complain that life is so boring (or even depressing)!

Imagine what would have happened if Bill Gates or Steve Jobs had not taken the chances they did in life, or if Thomas Alva Edison gave up the invention of light bulb just because he failed! Yes, Edison failed not once, not twice, but more than 10,000 times before he came up with the invention that is lighting up our lives right now!

So you see, failure is inevitable. When you try your hand at something new, there are bound to be obstacles and setbacks, but failure (as the age old saying goes) is indeed the stepping stone to success.

Don't be afraid of failure. It's better to fail a thousand times to achieve a one-time success, than to never fail nor succeed at anything!

So step out with enthusiasm, live life with excitement, do great things for others, take your chances and be extraordinary... else you will be the person whose tombstone will read something like "Here lies Kris, who lived a normal life and died a normal person!"

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Failing Forward

Courtesy of Bob Proctor's 'Insight of the Day' service and  Michael Josephson

THE best way to teach our children to succeed is to teach them to fail.

After all, if getting everything you want on the first try is success, and everything else is failure, we all fail much more often than we succeed.

People who learn how to grow from unsuccessful efforts succeed more often and at higher levels because they become wiser and tougher.

Two great American inventors, Thomas Edison and Charles Kettering mastered the art of building success on a foundation of what others might call failure.

Edison, 'failed his way to success'.

Edison liked to say he “failed his way to success,” noting that every time he tried something that didn’t work he moved closer to what did.

“Now I know one more thing that doesn’t work,” he would say.

The lesser known Kettering (head of research for General Motors from 1920-1947) talked about “failing forward,” calling every wrong attempt a “practice shot.”

The strength of both men was that their creativity and confidence was undiminished by setbacks and unsuccessful efforts.

They accepted that trial and error is an essential strategy for breakthrough innovation and simply rejected the notion of failure.

Thomas Watson, the founder of IBM, cautioned his leaders from being so careful that they never failed. He went so far as to say, ‎”The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.”

Of course, failure is never desirable, but it is inevitable and, with a proper attitude, can be quite useful.
The only way to avoid failure is to avoid the risks and challenges and that probably is a case of real failure.

The great hockey player Wayne Gretzky used to say, “You miss 100 per cent of the shots you don’t take.”

Whatever your goal, whether it’s to get something, do something, or improve yourself as a person or professional, the secret of success is learning to transform unsuccessful experiences from stumbling blocks to stepping stones.

Three qualities can turn adversity into advantage: a positive perspective, reflection, and perseverance.

First, learn from the inventors. Don’t allow yourself to think of any failure as final, and never allow unsuccessful efforts to discourage you or cause you to give up.

Remember, failure is an event, not a person. Even failing repeatedly can’t defeat you unless you start thinking of yourself as a failure.

The way you think about your experiences shapes the experience in ways that either stimulate or stymie further efforts.

Second, don’t waste the experience. Unsuccessful efforts are wasted and debilitating only if you don’t learn from them.

Reflect on your actions, attitudes and the results to discover the lesson within the experience and use that knowledge to guide future efforts.

Third, persevere. Try and try again. Just be smarter each time.

Finally, learn to enjoy the process. Simply being absorbed in the pursuit of any change that will improve your life or the lives of others is a blessing.

Remember, character counts.

Michael Josephson - www.whatwillmatter.com