“You may say I’m a dreamer” from John Lennon’s song Imagine is one of my favorite lyrics. I use my imagination every day; so do you. Imagination enables you to make a schedule or plan a vacation. It allows you to find the perfect outfit or be a safe driver. Where would you be if you couldn’t think ahead about the oncoming car turning left in front of you? Maybe you’d be in the hospital if you didn’t anticipate the possible actions of the other driver. Imagination can also make you nuts with its awfulizing! Thinking of all the things that can go wrong is using imagination at its worst! Don’t do it. You become what you think about. Imagine that!

Imagination is what you use to create the life you love. Think back to your last vacation or weekend trip. Wasn’t it your imagination that allowed you to envision where to go, whom you would go with, how long you’d stay, and what your accommodations would be like? Once you dreamed up your idea, you created a plan to get there. It’s your imagination that will help you envision a life you are passionate about, but too many of us continue with the status quo without thought to what we want or what we are doing. Mostly we dwell on what we have that we don’t want. I can’t tell you how many of my clients have said, “I don’t know what I want, but it’s not this.”

Imagining the future is a tool you can use to propel you in the direction you want to go. Every week, I ask myself about my goal. I imagine what it is, why I want it, and when I want to have it. Currently my goal is to have $1000 passive income every month and I want that to happen by January, 2008. That’s one of my imaginings—passive income.

The next thing for me to imagine is how I can get that to happen. My vision is that I will sell my ecoaching programs to people who are self starters and need minimal support. So, I have been creating a program that sends lessons each week by email. When the user sends me the requested info at the end of the lesson, I have a brief email exchange to help him or her illuminate their discoveries and planning. As I have created this program, I have imagined how it would work and how the users will respond to the emails, and how I can support them in return. I imagine what the email looks like, where I’ll sell it, and a lot of other details that I won’t bore you with.

Every week, I also ask myself what I did in service to this idea last week and where I got stalled. I create a plan for what I will do this week. I even have a place to note good ideas that aren’t related to my current goal but that I don’t want to forget. This one sheet of paper keeps me on track and helps me imagine even bigger possibilities.

If this sounds like something you would like to do, reply to this email and I will send you the one page weekly planner I have created.

See you next week with another idea I haven’t imagined yet.

©2007, Jacqueline Hale