Inspirational Word: IMAGINE

Andy Andrews | May 28th, 2021

INSPIRATIONAL WORD: IMAGINE

The third most unrecognized inspirational word used is imagine. 

  • No limits can be attached. Exists in height width depth and time – supernatural authority over achievements
  • By harnessing this word one can take nothing and turn it into something
  • Of the three words, imagine, provides the greatest degree of hope and control
    • Action verb – word describes an activity in which you can and must engage
    • Right now – imagine something…
      • Did you, do it?  Did you imagine something? Yes, you did.  Even if what you imagined it was ridiculous and you would not participate, you did just that. 
      • You chose what to imagine and made it so.  That is control over your personal environment
  • Run through a checklist of your greatest dreams.
    • For your hopes and dreams to become a reality, at some point that reality must first be imagined. 
    • Every single thing invented was first imagined 
  • The first original thought to something becomes step one in the butterfly effect, the idea becomes larger and greater over time. 
    • When President Harris died, it took 110 days for news to reach CA.  
      • More than a decade before Samuel Morse had imagined that a single wire could transmit an electrical message in a code bearing his name – no one else imagined it would be more than a parlor trick
      • By 1861, an exec imagined this single wire could carry a message from coast to coast with
      • In 1915, Bell imagined that a voice could be carried from place to place - Fast forward to iphones
      • Whatever you wish to accomplish starts with imagining the idea
  • Think about what you did and imagine that you can double your results
  • People can become terrorized by misusing their imagination and creating fear.  Unreasonable fear will zap the emotional strength 
  • Remember you own and control your imagination
  • We can do better than adapting to a new environment or change, with imagination we can shape the new environment, it’s the crucial factor in creating new opportunities and paths to growth
  • Imagination is under your control, a consistent and reliable stream of chosen thoughts and dreams 
  • When faced with obstacles, your imagination can be relied upon to overcome them
  • Never believe that you don’t have an imagination, when you believe you don’t have an imagination, you make it more difficult to imagine – this belief is a lie that you have told yourself or someone else has told you that – you have been smoked
    • Smoke turns whatever you cook into a different food. Someone telling you this has caused you to believe it and this has changed your belief. 
    • Walt Disney was told he lacked imagination and was fired from his cartoonist job.  The boss didn’t know there was anything beyond the industry.  They were to consistently produce more of what they always had.  The guy with the imagination turned out fine
  • Imagine what your life will be like when you discover the answer to the question you’ve been asking
  • Imagine the choices you will make and the lives you will touch when you imagine the best is yet to come