Imagining a dream is one thing; seeing it and touching it are quite another.

Ask almost any child to draw their dreams and wishes, and they can do it without the slightest hesitation or embarrassment. It just makes intuitive sense to most children that drawing is a magical act of creation. It probably made sense to you, too, at one time, long before you set it aside on the way to adulthood. When was the last time you tried to sort out a thought or a feeling, a wish or a goal, with a sketch? If you are like most people, it wasn’t yesterday, lol.

Drawing your hopes, and wishes, and goals, and big ideas might be worth giving a shot, especially if you haven’t done it for years. Except for words, what other tool holds so much power to transform a thought into reality? The very act of putting pen to paper brings something to life in a way that just thinking about it never can. If a goal lives only in your mind and is never expressed, it doesn’t really exist⏤it’s like a sound that no one is around to hear or a song that no one is around to sing. If you could simply think a goal into existence, then you could live in your imagination forever, but thinking isn’t creating, and even a child knows that.

The moment of creation is so powerful that it is even enshrined in copyright law. It is the act of creation itself which bestows the protection, not some later petition or declaration. It makes perfect sense when you think about it. The moment something is created, it is protected through the act of its own creation. When an idea becomes expression, it becomes real. 

Even the cave dwellers drew images. It’s innately human, and a magical first step in manifesting a desire into reality. Think of your imagination as a complex maze, and images as escorts for your ideas to find their way out and become real. Does it matter whether your drawings are “good,” or if anyone other than yourself ever sees them? Not at all. What matters is that you can see your goals, that you can meet them in a whole new way, outside of the mind, and with your senses.

Think of drawing as the first step in a potential sequence of creation. Consider the architect with an idea of what they want to create. They begin with a sketch, then progress to a drawing, then move to a model, and end with a building. The idea becomes more and more real with each step until it actually is real. You can do this as well. Anything you want to create can be built one single step at a time, and any idea can move from thought, to sketch, to drawing, to model, to final. No matter where you think ideas ultimately come from, consider grabbing them, and making them more real by putting them into two (or three) dimensions, and seeing them in a whole new light.

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