The Power of Possibility | DFS 402

Welcome to Destin for Success. I'm your

host, Jennifer Takagi, your 12 minute success coach. And today

I want to talk about imagination. So last week we

talked about the identity that you need to embrace to start

becoming that person you want to be, creating the life you want

to live, live, and lead, and the next super key, important piece

of this, important piece of this is your imagination. Your

imagination is a preview of a possibility before something

exists in life, it usually exists in your mind first. Every

business invention relationship and dream began as an imagined

future. So, when you allow yourself to truly envision what

you want, you expand what feels possible. When you start

imagining your life, and then you add the feeling into it,

what's it going to feel like when I get there, when I

accomplish that, when I have that, your subconscious mind

goes in overdrive to make it happen. Super simple thing. I

love a clean car. I just do. It makes me so happy. I have a 2011

Toyota Avalon, and it's white, and it has like 217,000 miles on

it, 200,018 miles on, as a lot of miles on it, lot of miles,

2011 I like it being clean, and I have a what's it called, a

membership, a membership subscription to Charlie's Car

Wash up the street, and I can drive through it as many times

as I want in a month, and they have vacuum, so I can vacuum it

out real quickly. It's usually just me, it's usually the front

seat, passenger seat, driver seat that need to be vacuumed,

because the back seat, you know, I don't have kids or dogs and

stuff back there, so it's usually not too dirty, but I

like a clean car, and that's part of my imagination. I

imagine myself driving a clean car that drives really well. I'm

gonna upgrade my car, they don't make an Avalon any any longer.

If anybody works at Toyota that's listening to this

podcast, would you please tell them I'm devastated? I don't

want a crown, I want another Avalon, but 22 was the last year

they made them, and I really want, I really want, I've only

had one brand new car in my life, I want one more brand new

car, and I would like it to be Avalon, but it's not going to be

unless they start making them again, and I can feel it, I can

sense it, I can smell it when I have that new car, so the more

vivid you are with your dream, what it's going to feel like,

what you're going to do, if you had all the clients you wanted,

and everybody wants a different number of clients. If you had

that number of clients that you wanted, how would you feel? How

would you feel with those clients? What would your day

look like? What day a friend pulled out her phone and she

goes, look what I found on my phone that I, that I created,

and we were all like, oh my gosh, would you create, and she

was like, my perfect day. She starts reading this perfect day

scenario that she had created, and I started laughing, and I

said, I told you to do, I told you to do that, and so it was

really funny, because she had, you know, had it, and then kind

of misplaced it a little bit, and then found it again on her

phone, and it was just amazing how excited she became when she

ran across it again, because her imagination was so vivid, so

clear, and concise on what she wanted, how she wanted it to be,

and it was mostly a business venture, like how she wanted to

put this business together. So your imagination becomes super

powerful in how things turn out, super powerful, your brain, your

subconscious, it responds to a vivid imagination. It doesn't

distinguish between a vividly imagined experience and a real

one. It doesn't know the difference between a truth and a

lie, but the more you, so tell yourself it, the more it. Going

to get into it. When you repeatedly picture your future

with emotion, with detail, with belief, you begin wiring your

brain for confidence, action, and opportunity, and those

opportunities start showing up, and the doors start opening. I

was on a plane.

I need to find some paperwork that would tell me what year it

could have been, 2008 2009 maybe a long time ago. And I was on an

airplane coming home from LA on a business trip. I worked for

the federal government, and this woman sat with me. There were

three seats. She was window, I was aisle, and nobody came and

sat between us. And she said, "If you could do anything, what

would it be? And I said, "Oh, I would be a trainer. I love

training people. I was at an event. This woman did what I

thought was a horrible job, and I think I could have done

better. I would be a trainer, and she goes, "Well, you have

just put that out into the universe, and a lot of doors

will start showing up, and some you won't walk through, others

you will, but you put that out in the universe, and it's gonna

happen. And I can remember thinking that is the most airy

fairy, touchy-feely, woo-woo crap I've ever heard in my life.

And what happened? I always trained in the office. I was

often asked to go to other offices and train employees, and

then one day I was asked to spend a whole year traveling the

whole country, training people. At the end of that year, they

said you can leave or you can relocate, and I was like, I am

not relocating, and I was like, all right, that lady was right,

I put it out there, I literally can see myself standing in the

middle of that hotel ballroom as if I were giving that training

that I thought that woman did such a poor job at, and let's be

clear, she was brilliant. She had a PhD in psychology, she was

really, really good, really, really smart. However, she spoke

about this loud, and she had a microphone. Nobody could hear

her, so I just would have done a better job, because I have more

enthusiasm, and I'm loud. And she talked right after lunch, so

you really need somebody who can keep the attention after lunch.

But I imagine that after that scenario, I'm going to be that

person standing in the middle of that room training that group of

80 people. It was clear, it was concise. What do you want? I

asked a client out that the other day, I said, what do you

want, and all of a sudden it was all stuttering and blubbering,

and I don't know, and I said, well, then just sit on it, sleep

on it. What do you want? And once you decide what you want, I

want you to write it out with absolute clarity. What do you

want? I want to be a trainer. I want so many people. I want so

many contracts. I want so much per event. What do you want?

Make it clear, make it concise, and put all the feeling in it.

The feeling is what makes it all different. It makes it come

together, because then your brain can really wrap its head

around it, literally, and start coming together. It's so

critical. Most of us limit our future because we stop imagining

lives, disappointments, and fear shrink our imaginations, but

successful people continue asking, what if it could work?

What if my best years are ahead? Your imagination helps create

hope, direction, and the energy to move forward. I have had

trouble with my knees since I was a little girl, I probably

was five or six. The first time I dislocated my right knee cap,

it kept happening off and on for years. I was ice skating. If

you've ever ice skated, you do this t stop, where you take your

right foot and turn it sideways and hit it into the back of the

left foot blade to stop. I think it's called a t stop. It's been

a long time, and when I did that, my right kneecap

dislocated. It went to the side of my leg, and I couldn't get it

back. At that point, I had always been able to pop it back

really quickly, and it would not. And I can remember laying

on the ice cream, and put it back, put it back, put it back.

And finally, the instructor reached down and touched my

kneecap.

But it went right back into place, and they told me then I

was probably 14. Yep, you got some bad knees there, girl, it's

gonna keep up. And I had my first major surgery when I was

3031, and they said, yep, you need both knees replaced at some

point. And then fast forward a number of years, I tore my

meniscus, another surgery, and then one year apart I had one

replaced, and the next year the next one replaced. The second

recovery was way slower than the first one, which irritated me,

oh, to no end. But I finally got there. I finally got there,

where I could stand up without, I have to get up, or I have to

sit down. I can walk up and down a flight of stairs, and my knees

don't hurt me at all. And I had a friend say, "Yeah, but they're

never the same. And I said, "Girlfriend, mine were bad from

the get-go. I don't want them to be the same. I imagined a future

where I could stand up and walk, and I wouldn't think twice about

it, and I had not been able to do that for many, many years. So

I imagine having strong, healthy knees, where I could do what I

wanted to do, and I can. I imagined leaving the federal

government at 50, and guess what, I was 51 That's close

enough. That is close enough, and it counts. And by the way,

close enough for government work is actually a very positive

thing to say, not a negative derogatory. And the corporate or

the construction world used to say, well, this is close enough

for government work, meaning this is good enough. It's, it's

gonna pass, it's good. So, it's a positive thing, not a

negative. It's used in a negative way now, but they said

you can leave or stay and move, and I was like, I'm out of here.

I set that up, I manifested it, I created it. I have the vision

for it. Your imagination, or lack thereof, is what is

creating your future, and you have the choice today to start

imagining what you want it to look like. Leave all the

negative behind. I told my husband recently, there are some

people I need to spend a little less time with, because they are

too negative for me. I just can't do it anymore. I need a

little more positivity. I need a little more hope. Your

imagination creates that for you. And my challenge for you

today is, sit down and write out what you want your life to be.

Last week I said, what identity do you need to have this week?

Now that you know the identity, what do you want it to be? What

do you want it to look like? I'm Jennifer Takagi, your 12 minute

success coach, and I look forward to connecting with you

soon.

Bye.