Imagination, A Prescription For Growth

I was inspired to write today when I stumbled upon this quote by Stephen R. Covey.

“You can change. You can live out of your imagination instead of your memory. You can tie yourself to your limitless potential instead of your limiting past.”
— Stephen R. Covey

That statement is profoundly enlightening and authenticates my own fundamental belief that you are the one responsible for making a choice, a commitment to any personal or professional accomplishment you desire to achieve in life. These are words apropos to not only personal success, but also to success in business. We all possess limitless potential or that “master aptitude” defined by Daniel Goleman in my article “Emotional Intelligence, How Do You Measure.” What we don’t all possess is the motivation or commitment to developing those abilities that are affected by that aptitude. Or do we?

We center on that which we are comfortable and familiar. We focus on what we have already carved out for ourselves from our past, what we’ve learned from our parents, our schools, our friends, our society, and numerous other influences, both positive and negative and then wonder why we achieve a result short of what was expected. We miss the mark, or we never even start aiming for it because it’s too hard or too frightening.

Fact of the matter is we must be willing to unlearn some of our history and be open to new learning and imaginative landmark ways of thinking and meticulous self exploration. Again, it all comes down to a personal choice, our own choice, no one else’s and not because of anyone else.

I started this site to nourish my passion for writing, but as I have been thoughtfully evaluating my own commitments, I find that the track is very much aimed at one for personal growth and development and how it applies to success, be it through improving your writing or to understanding your own strengths and weaknesses through scrupulous self evaluation.

This site is about writing. But it is also about improving an existing ability or aptitude you already possess, and that segues into growth and development and to the rationale I use to write about more than just writing. The written word brings the promise of commitment. When we put something to writing, we are committing to it. We are giving our assurance that you can depend upon what’s being said.

I am committed to provide more than just topics within the writing niche. Writing is one thing; writing better is a commitment to change, to grow, to learn, and to think and learn in new ways as you travel down the path of self discovery. Thoughts, choices, commitment, knowledge, development, transformation, thinking and feeling, these are measureable well defined characteristics of a healthy soul, they are there for all of us to choose, to seek at spectrometric levels outside our own characterization of ourselves.