Why imagine?

Has anyone ever told you to ‘get on with your work, stop your daydreams’. Have they ever suggested your head was ‘in the clouds’ when all you were doing was looking out the window, imagining.

Through our lifetimes, in all sorts of settings like work and in education, we receive a lot of negative messaging around imagination.

And yet, imagination has made all the difference to our lives. We’d have no electricity if no one had imagined it. Nor moon landings, mobile phones, the internet, satellites in space, antibiotics, ice cream, chocolate, rooftop bars, a ballet beside a harbour. I could go on and on.

Without imagination, life might be dull and humdrum. No cappuccino, no super cool cocktails, no St Mark’s Square in Venice on a winter’s day, nor paintings by Brett Whiteley, or telescopes to witness the stars, the planets, the universe.

And yet, we’re so often told,  “Stop looking out the window’.

From quite young, most of us stop using our imagination a great deal, often from upper primary through high school. As adults, we’re often too busy, focused on particular tasks that leave little space to imagine. That’s understandable; we have work, responsibilities, barely a moment’s break.

But there is some good news.

You can wake up your imagination

That’s what Imagination Session® is all about. It’s about reminding you that you have this incredible gift, this skill inside you. You can stir it awake.

But if that question still gnaws at  you, ’why imagine?’, ask yourself another question.  

Do we need imagination to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges? Are there other challenges, maybe in your workplace, that you believe could benefit from new ideas, creative thinking, all that springs from that one particular source; imagination.

If your answer is yes, I suggest you give yourself permission to imagine.