Dream Act Plan Believe

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Beautifual Bora Bora, part of  French Polynesia, is in the Pacific Ocean. The island is located about 140 miles  northwest of Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia.

Bora Bora is surrounded by beautiful lagoons and a barrier reef.   It relies heavily on tourism as the products the inhabitants can produce are limited to what can be gathered from the ocean and from the local coconut trees.

With a population of less than 10,000 people Bora Bora is the perfect get-a-way.  Diving, hiking, horseback riding, and bike riding are wonderful ways to experience the beauty that this island offers it’s visitors.

French and Polynesian are the languages spoken here, but those that deal with tourists will generally speak some English. Read the rest of this entry »

Months, and months ago I decided to start a series called “Envision This.”   The Envision This series is designed to showcase some of the things I dream of doing, fascinating places to visit, exotic and delicious foods to try, things to experience, and some things you may just find interesting.

It is designed to provide you with ideas – ideas of things that you can do to bring more joy in your life.

Basically, it’s a tool for you to use in creating new dreams and making dreams come true. Maybe you’ll find some interesting things for that vision board of yours. (You do have one don’t you?)

Well some exciting things happened in my life.  And well, frankly, those things got in the way of regular blogging.  But because I am passionate about helping connect people to EnRICHing ideas, EnRICHing things, EnRICHing people, and enRICHing ideas I’m going to make more time for blogging.

So here it is…

Finally…

The first installment in the Envision This Series…

Envision Bora Bora.

Perhaps as a child you dreamed of being a ballerina or playing in the world-series. Perhaps you dreamed of traveling to exotic locations, of flying to the moon, or of being in movies. All of us had childhood dreams.  And many of us still have the same dreams now as adults.

Dreams are nothing more than what we imagine our life would be like. It’s the experiences we hope to live.

Sadly though, many have given up on their dreams.

“It’s to late,” they say. That may be true…

It may be to late to play in the world series, but you could still attend the world series, and adult form of  “play.”

It may be to late to be the star ballerina, but it’s not to late to dance, and to enjoy it. And it’s not to late to attend the ballet often.

And…

It’s not to late to build more dreams!
It’s not to late to make your dreams come true!

You’ve just got to give yourself permission to dream!

To help with that I’m adding a new resource, via a series of posts, here at Dream, Act, Plan, Believe. The word envision is to picture mentally some future event or events, so the new series is called Envision This.

The Envision This series will showcase some of the things I dream of doing, fascinating places to visit, exotic foods to try, things to experience, and some things you may just find interesting. It is designed to provide you with ideas – ideas of things that you can do to bring more joy in your life.

It’s a tool for you to use in creating new dreams and making dreams come true.

The first post is coming Monday.

By the way, you’ll recognize the posts in the Envision It series because they’ll have the envision this image (shown at the top of this post) in it.

Be sure to explore the site to find additional resources on how to make your dreams come true.

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Imagination and creativity go hand-in-hand.  By breaking down the words creativity and imagination we can gain a great understanding of how closely connected they are.

Imagination

• image – to form a mental picture
• ate – join
• ion – action

So we can see that imagination is an action.  It’s the act of forming a mental picture and is not the ability to recall a mental picture.

Creativity

• create –  to evolve something from one’s own thoughts or imagination, such as creating a work of art or an invention.
• ity – a suffix expressing a state or condition

So creativity is the ability to express what one sees with their own thoughts or imagination.  And imagination is a skill that helps to bring things into existence.

If imagination is the skill that helps to bring the things we create into existence and creativity is the ability to express what one sees with their own thoughts or imagination then one can’t really exist without the other.

Imagination and creativity are at work when new inventions are created, when new breakthroughs in science are discovered (see science is imagination), when new clothing lines are created, when new pieces of music are created, and when new recipes are served up.

So pay attention to those images that pop into your head.  Your imagination just may be trying creativly solve a problem.

• What are they telling you?
• How can you bring that image forth from your imagination and create something that will make a difference?

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All of us imagine all the time.  After all, it is our imagination that allows us to play out all the possible scenarios laid out before us and decide on a course of action.

“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”  ~ Gloria Steinman

Our imagination determines for the most part how we react to nearly every situation. Our imagination allows us to take our experiences, and all the things we learn and connect them together in new and meaningful ways.  And our imagination allows us to enjoy life more fully.

However, there is a problem…

Imagination is  something we do constantly.  However, very few of us have been taught how to effectively manage our imagination.

Imagination in school, was for the most part, limited.  Even in art classes you were probably were taught that elephants are not pink and that you had to draw houses “this way” if you wanted to do it the “right way.”

As children we were told stop daydreaming and get back on task.  But then, suddenly, when the clock hit the magical hour we were told to turn our imagination back on for our creative writing projects.

Throughout our school years we were taught plenty of facts, and then asked to recall those facts. And now we are asked to solve problems based on all the information we learned.

It’s no wonder, that as adults, many people rely primarily our synthetic imagination.  Synthetic imagination is based on the images, knowledge, and information we store based on our experiences, our education, and observations.

It allows us to take those pieces and put them together in a new way. It rearranges the existing thought patterns into new patterns.  It is through the power of synthetic imagination that new products are developed.

All of us have synthetic imagination, and it’s a good thing we do.  If we didn’t we be much like a computer that stores facts, and does nothing with them unless directed to.

The other type of imagine is creative imagination. Creative imagination refers to our ability to develop completely new and different ideas.  It’s the ability to take concepts and put them together to solve  problems and achieve  goals. This type of imagination often manifests itself in the form of hunches and inspiration. And it is creative imagination that is responsible for many of the great breakthroughs in medicine, science, technology, art, music, literature.

Both types of imagination are important, and both types of imagination play a vital role in your life.

The most successful people feed their synthetic imagination  on a regular basis, and they deliberately train themselves to tap into their creative imagination.

• So what can you do to broaden your imagination?

• What can you do to increase the power of your imagination?

Stay tuned for tips, insight, and resources  on how to manage your imagination…