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Posted February 24, 2009
This is about the power of visualization and imagination in shaping our future: When riding a motorcycle, the bike will go where you are looking, whether you really want to go there or not. If you don’t keep your eyes on the road, your bike will wander off as well. Whatever mechanism causes this, the same goes for our businesses, as well as our lives. Our life will follow where we look or will turn out how we visualize it.
Long ago I was in the leatherwork business, living in a little shotgun house in Durham, NC. I was commuting to my workshop way out at the crossroads known as Frog Level, and then to my retail shop on Franklin St., in Chapel Hill. I stumbled upon Victor Papanek’s books, Design for the Real World and was inspired to study product design as an avenue to becoming an inventor. I wanted to invent things, though I didn’t know what, and I wanted my products to be sold, not just in Chapel Hill, but around the world.
Long story made short, I went to the Insitute of Design in Chicago, received my MS in industrial design, and by a miracle was hired by a toy invention company after I had almost given up my search for a job as a designer. I have made my living for 30 years as an inventor. And as I had long ago imagined, the products we create are sold around the world. I did not set out to create products that would be sold worldwide, but I imagined it, and it came true.
In many ways my life has become what I long ago imagined, without consciously working toward realizing those imagined outcomes. I have seen, and I am proof that what we imagine is what will be. So it is important that your imagining is in line with your desires in life, and not your fears, as those too can come true.
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