Imagine..

The year 2023 draws to an end. The time between Christmas and New Year offers a nice opportunity to pause a bit and reflect on the year that is finishing and think about the next steps.

If the year 2024 would be one of the best in your life, how would it look like? Can you imagine it?

We can often find it difficult to imagine a clear vision of how we would like things to be. However, being able to visualise it is the first step to make it happen. As my karate teacher recently said ‘imagination is a tool’ and so it’s important we use it as much as possible.

Today, we had a creative time with my three-year-old son. We were making a paper aquarium out of a shoe box. He was so excited about it and it was really nice to cut fish and plants out of paper and glue them in the aquarium. We had some sea stickers at home, so we added those as well. We also found some space stickers with rockets and planets. My son happily added them to the bottom of the aquarium. I tried to explain to him that these space stickers don’t belong to the aquarium, but he wanted to keep them in there saying he liked them there. He had his own vision of how his aquarium would look like, and it was to be with planets and rockets. It made me think how I limited my vision of it and realised how powerful his imagination is.

This was just a short story from today. It connected nicely to the topic of the blog. And so as this year approaches its end let’s be grateful for what it brought – the learning, the opportunities, the encounters and the experiences. Let’s embrace and accept the things that didn’t work and the challenges we faced. But fundamentally, let’s look forwards and create the best possible version of our year 2024. Give yourself some space in the next couple of days and write, draw or sketch how that picture looks like. Because if you can see it it can happen.

How does your year 2024 look like?