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[success]Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ~ Carl Sagan[/success] Jeannie looked everywhere for her jewelry.  It was all she had from a previous life, it was precious, and it was nowhere to be found.  She’d just returned from a trip to Europe and her neighbour had been looking after the house in her absence.  Jeannie knew it had been taken.  She’d never trusted her neighbour’s daughter, perhaps she’d been in the house and stolen it. A month or so later she discovered all the jewelry hidden in the back of a drawer.  She’d completely forgotten she’d tucked it away for safekeeping. O.W, four year old little sprite that he is, couldn’t get to sleep, the dim light cast a shadow in a corner and he was convinced it was a lurking monster.  Never mind that moving the light moved the…

It’s time to embrace your inner child.  You know…the one who had fun at a drop of a hat. the one who was full of the joys of spring, yes…that one. Remember as children we would sometimes play an imaginary game, a game we made up in our inner world, where we would have cars, or dolls, or other inanimate objects come to life and experience whatever we made up with our thoughts?  Or was it just me? Nah, it still happens. I see it in kids today – they have an innate ability to imagine any story or idea they choose and then play out the scenes that they’ve made up as they went along.  They get lost in their land of make believe and in that moment of time, it’s as real to them as the real world is to us.  They’re totally immersed in it, engrossed to…

[success]Live out of your imagination, not your history. Stephen Covey[/success] Your life is speaking to you loud and clear.  Everything that happens to you doesn’t come from ‘out of the clear blue sky’, it doesn’t arrive by chance or accident or some kind of random design.  Our relationships don’t one day go down in flames, our finances don’t suddenly go down the tubes and as for the goals we haven’t reached, someone isn’t magically moving the goal posts. Life isn’t happening to us by accident.  Life is a responder, it’s mechanical, and automatically delivers to us all that we’re aware of.  Everything has its cause within us.  And that’s absolutely everything.  There’s no master puppeteer pulling our strings, our family or someone else isn’t doing it to us, there’s no outside cause at work.  I know it’s tough, but we can’t look anywhere outside of ourselves for the answer to…

[success]You are the sculptor of your own reality.  Don’t hand your tools to anyone else. ~  Jeff Brown[/success] Did you know that 66% of job seekers who imagined themselves as being happily employed found new jobs months earlier than those who merely had career counseling? What?  You hadn’t heard that?  Me neither, but that’s according to a study by the Journal of Consulting Psychology, so it must be right. Right? If that all sounds a little bit too studious, never fear, I have a little story to tell that’ll be right up your alley because it’s all about imagination…we love that don’t we? Don’t we? Have I ever mentioned Louisa’s husband?  Hmmm it’s time to remedy that.  I’m going to call him Tom…I love to protect the innocent as I tell stories about them…okay not stories about them so much, as their very own stories, as told to me.  Honest.…

I just want to say thank you. Thank you if you’re still here, while I’ve been missing in action for the past few days. If you’ve been imagining I’ve disappeared to a tropical island retreat, well nice thought.  Maybe you thought I’d just done a bunk and abandoned the whole idea of blogging.  Nah, I don’t give up that easily.  I’ve been doing something much more mundane and ordinary.  I’ve been taking some immune boosting therapies.  Apparently my immune system has been in need of a little help so it’s being taken care of. But the tree in the image above is definitely like the one I used to perch on as a girl when we were on holiday in Mombasa, East Africa! Lucky me. I did say it was more mundane than that.  But I’ve discovered, not quite so ordinary.  We’ll get back to that in another post. In…

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