Prior to reading The 12 Week Year, I had a sort of wibbly-wobbly concept of “Vision“
Vision is what and how we see, it’s what’s in our field of view and observable…
…until it isn’t.
Until it’s more.
Slight tangent here, do you know the difference between
Imaginary & Imaginal?
Imaginary things are environmental elements and creatures and concepts we invent in our minds to fill the space around us
An imaginal experience is when we’re THERE. When we’re no longer in our current situation but faraway in the plotline of a book or stowed cozily in our Safe Place.
I’m starting to believe that the key to Vision, as Brian Moran and Michael Lennington discuss it, is the latter. It’s imaginal.
When we’re in touch with a Vision of our potential that really inspires us, we feel the breeze in our hair. Smell the air and savor the sensations of arrival. Settle in to the grounded feeling of having made it.
Suddenly, all the roadblocks between here and there seem trivial.
Necessary evils. Obstacles to be determinedly overcome.
Before this book, my to-do list lingered over my head like an unpleasant sentence waiting to be served.
Now, it calls like an old friend waiting to dive back into a dialogue of
“What could be.
What’s possible.
What we can manifest through mutual effort.”
Regarding motivation,
the pull of opportunity inspires more
than does the pressure of obligation.
Elise on Life 
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