The Journal

Dawn Adams 12/19/22 Dawn Adams 12/19/22

A holiday wish

Wishing you happy holidays and a wonderful new year. Whether I’ve connected with you recently, or we’ve been linked for awhile, or you are an occasional reader of my posts, I wish you the very, very best.

Dawn Adams 12/9/22 Dawn Adams 12/9/22

Speaking on imagination

My appreciation to Cathy Ngo for including my speaker profile on Keynoteworthy, a platform that promotes diverse speakers to appear at conferences, events and webinars.

Dawn Adams 12/3/22 Dawn Adams 12/3/22

Start the new year with an imagination mindset

Many thanks to James Boston for publishing an article on Imagination Session® in business-to-business title WFA. It highlights how imagination has positive benefits for wellbeing and business outcomes.

Dawn Adams 11/21/22 Dawn Adams 11/21/22

Imagine to create, innovate

If ever you’ve wondered, ‘does imagination lead to creativity and innovation’, I suggest you review Albert Einstein’s remarkable life. He practiced his imagination through ‘thought experiments’, often providing the seed that led to his many extraordinary scientific breakthroughs.

Dawn Adams 11/7/22 Dawn Adams 11/7/22

Imagine to dream big, think bold, be ambitious

Imagination invites us to dream big, think bold, be ambitious. And positive imagining is good for us. Poets and philosophers have known that forever and now, increasingly, neuroscientists and even business consultants are placing imagination under their microscope and recognising its many benefits.

Dawn Adams 10/24/22 Dawn Adams 10/24/22

Four tips to sustain imagination in business

In business, when is the most critical stage to re-activate your imagination? When do you need all your best ideas to emerge?

Dawn Adams 10/17/22 Dawn Adams 10/17/22

Imagine to reach for the stars

Why imagine? For work, for life, for business. Here are six reasons.

Dawn Adams 10/10/22 Dawn Adams 10/10/22

A different approach to address wellbeing

I’ve been reflecting on all that’s been said this Mental Health Day and how much our lives have changed since the pandemic began. Comments from, for example, Beyond Blue CEO Georgie Harman who, in a LinkedIn post, wrote the past few years have ‘underscored the importance of human connection’.

Dawn Adams 10/3/22 Dawn Adams 10/3/22

Imagine for wellbeing

Many Australians feel more isolated now than before the pandemic began, according to recently released research from Allianz Australia.

Dawn Adams 9/26/22 Dawn Adams 9/26/22

A time to celebrate

A day to celebrate yesterday; I donned my cap and gown at Doltone House in Sydney to graduate from a postgraduate education course.

It took a lot of motivation to complete this course under covid’s shadow. Maybe we should all take a bow for whatever we’ve achieved in the last three years.

Dawn Adams 9/21/22 Dawn Adams 9/21/22

An imagination challenge

Do you want to touch the laughter and joy of imagining?

In today’s blog, you get that opportunity; I will share a story you can use as a springboard to imagine and to rediscover how awesome that feels.

Dawn Adams 9/19/22 Dawn Adams 9/19/22

Five reasons to reconnect with imagination

Here are my five top reasons for reconnecting with your imagination:

Dawn Adams 9/17/22 Dawn Adams 9/17/22

Imagination for wellbeing and innovation

I found fascinating an article posted by ‘A Lust for Life’, an Irish mental health charity, that identified an overlap between wellbeing and imagination.

Dawn Adams 9/12/22 Dawn Adams 9/12/22

Imagination: the source of all innovation

Imagining and reconnecting with our ‘inner child’ can have huge benefits, even for business. McKinsey & Company recently pointed out that children have invented some of our most well known products like the trampoline, popsicles and earmuffs.

Dawn Adams 8/15/22 Dawn Adams 8/15/22

The imagination advantage

The latest research demonstrates that imagination has a positive impact on both business outcomes and wellbeing.

The Kantar Insight 2030 report found:

72 per cent of companies primarily focused on imagination over-perform compared to their rivals

Dawn Adams 8/3/22 Dawn Adams 8/3/22

Does your imagination have the answers?

What are your biggest challenges?

Perhaps, you’re pondering whether your business is still relevant? Are the disruptors at your doorstep? Can you maintain connections while we, once again, increase remote work? Or is something else challenging you?

Dawn Adams 7/27/22 Dawn Adams 7/27/22

Seven steps to grow your imagination

If imagination and creativity are essential skills for the 21st century, what steps can you take to grow those skills.

Dawn Adams 7/20/22 Dawn Adams 7/20/22

Ten + skills linked to imagination

Did you know ‘imagination skills’ are increasingly recommended as criteria for recruitment and promotion purposes? And yet, how often have you been told you were 'wasting time' when you gazed out a window to go on a mind adventure?

Dawn Adams 7/13/22 Dawn Adams 7/13/22

From a crisis, big things grow … when we imagine

When our imaginings meet, when our ideas converge and sometimes, collide, I believe there are no limits. We see that often in a crisis, that change happens. In fact, the idea of imagining our way out of a crisis, like this pandemic, is not new.

Dawn Adams 7/9/22 Dawn Adams 7/9/22

Imagination: the experience

I was so pleased with the latest testimonial I received for Imagination Session®. “Dawn led us through the most delightful few hours of imagining; she has a unique process and our group was able to work together to find hilarity and truth as well as some truly contemplative moments.”