Imagination is more important than…

 Albert Einstein
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

Harry Palmer
“Reality consists of the experiences we believe are real.
What is real may or may not be the same for everyone.”

Wayne Dyer
“When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.”

George Bernard Shaw
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

Brian Tracy
“The establishment of a clear, central purpose or goal in life is the starting point of all success.”

Change your view – change your life.  Well it may sound simplistic, but the position of our body alters our mood.  Research has shown that depressed sad people tend to hold their heads with a downward cast.  Looking down and feeling down.  

Look up and LOOK UP!

Most smiles are started by other smiles.  Don’t take my word for it, try it yourself.

Have you ever rearranged the furniture in your house and felt a sense of relief or refreshment?  Why is that?  Sure you might have taken the time to clean the dust bunnies out from under the furniture so your space is cleaner and lighter, but it’s the same furniture, in the same room, with the same window coverings and flooring. 

So what is different?  Well your perspective has changed.  Now when you sit on your furniture you are looking at a different wall than before.  You have literally changed your perspective and hit the F5 key to resfresh your brain.

Have you ever walked past the same crooked hanging picture over and over again until you no longer perceived that the picture was hanging crooked?

On the Internet good webmasters move the ads around on the page slightly in order to keep our attention. When the page looks the same time after time, we cease to see the ads and develop what has been dubbed “ad blindness.”   The same kind of thing happens in our daily life with all kinds of things.

For example, I am a recovering packrat and clutterbug.  I am dominant right brain creative, visually wired person and as such like to have things in sight lest I forget about them.  (Out of sight out of mind, comes to mind.) Ironically, I like clean spaces, uncluttered surfaces and a neat environment.  (I know sounds mixed up doesn’t it?!)

On my journey to learn how to live with less stuff, I discovered an interesting method to get a reality check on my living space.  At that time my office was where I spent the most time and it also doubled as a living area and was jam packed to the gills with “stuff”. 

I took photographs of the entire space doing a 360 of my office.  It was packed with useful and needed items.  (I can hear you say, yeah right, I bet it was all “useful” and “needed”)  No really, I did use most of it!

Since I spent a lot of time in this space, after awhile I really had no concept of what others saw when they first saw it.  My mind had manufactured some other kind of world and when I saw the photographs I was shocked.  I was blown away at just how much stuff I had and how poorly my space really looked.  I also began to see how I needed to dig out and lighten the space and change my perspective. 

How you can dig out of an overwhelming clutter crisis in a few easy steps, is the subject of an upcoming post.  If you have a problem space, go ahead and take photographs of the room now.  We do a kind of “before and after” with these to help keep our space looking the way we want it to.

Imagine your space exactly the way you want it.  Because imagination is really more important than knowledge.