SERIOUS CONSULTING
DECEMBER 2, 2010. Most people don’t want to access their own imagination. They want to use the products of other people’s imagination. That’s the limit of their courage.
As many of you know, I have been working with private clients for years. This type of consulting is unique.
It focuses on imagination and power.
Recently, this work has escalated.
Some people, surveying the economic scene, have realized that, more than ever, they need to tap into imagination as the primary force for shaping a future that frees them from constant minute-to-minute worrying.
These people have made a leap.
They not only want new solutions. They want a new way to approach their own desire and their own vision.
My consulting work doesn’t present patterns of success to people. It doesn’t present a picture and say “copy this.”
Imagination equals power.
Again, here is the problem. Most people won’t commit to their own imaginations. They just won’t. They want to access the products of other people’s imaginations. That’s their farthest reach. That’s their limit.
And do you know the consequence of that?
Well, think of it this way. If a person denies his own freedom, he has a tendency to want to limit the freedom of others. In some cases, he wants to destroy it.
The same condition applies to imagination. If a person denies his own, he tends to deny imagination even exists. And if he sees it anywhere, he derides it, tries to step on it.
He is stepping on the most powerful force there is. He’ll gain nothing by it—except to further diminish himself.
My work involves liberating the power of imagination.
I find great success when a person commits to expanding his own conception of how far and wide he can create a future.
If he can’t make that commitment, if he piles up one excuse after another, he will sink like a stone.
If he looks for a cloud of magic to descend on him and transform his life, and if, in the meantime, he waits and waits and does nothing, he loses.
If he obtains some kind of inspiration from lofty words, but never moves off the dime, and instead merely observes “the passing show,” he experiences a sense of decay.
This commitment I refer to—does it involve struggle? Of course it does. Nothing truly important comes without effort. This puts some people off. They associate struggle with drudgery, because that has been their experience. But work in the direction of making imagination manifest in the world is uplifting, fiercely satisfying, and ultimately joyous.
JON RAPPOPORT
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