SUCCEED BY IMAGINING.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4409, 3 May 1922, Page 3

SUCCEED BY IMAGINING.

PICTURE PROSPERITY.

AND YOU WILL GET ON. (By H. Ernest Hunt.) Imagination is our power , ofi building pictures in our mind. There was a picture of the chair you sit on in the mind of the man who planned it, just -'s there must have been a picture of St. Paul’s Cathedral in Wren’s imagination. The pictures we build in mind can be either copies of someone else's pictures or original. We can read a book and picture the characters and action described by the author, and thus make copies in our mind of the picture? in his. This power of making copies by imagination is very valuable, but far more important is the ability to imagine new pictures of ouii own. Millions of people can copy, but comparatively fow can do original work. That is why the few lead and the many follow. When we say that- something, is “purely imaginary,” what do we mean.'! We mean that it does not actually exist. But that imaginary picture is really , the first step to--wards its existence./ ... THINK LARGE THOUGHTS. People not so very long ago could not “imagine” anyone flying—but a few enterprising minds kept that picture in view, ft nd hammered away "t the difficulties, and now the fact is a commonplace. . It is not right that a man shoufld be so satisfied withi his job that he never thinks of anything better. That attitude leads to stagnation and the stoppage of all progress., A man who took a little shop, and only thought round and round in that little shop, woulld remain there. But a man Who started in a small way and kept his imagination always on the alert to find new openings and extensions, who pictured himself growing more and more successful til] he h,ad the next door ship, and the next, and the next, would be far more likely to end up by Owning a big establishment than the little man wi,th small ideas. So the mother might have her private day-dreams of the fine men and women into which her cl.’’dren will one day grow. To have this vision can help, it can never dp harm. HOW WE GET “IDEAS,” Back up imagination by real solid work and effort, and never Jet any number of disappointments obscure your . mental picture of willing through finally and making your dreams come true. An idea is formed by using the memory material in the mind, and combining it . together in various ways. We take a simple idea, “Horses eat,” then, coupling , up the twp elements backwards, we get “Eat Horses.” Quite a different idea. -.Sd, when..we put, this material together in a novel fashion we have an original idea, a new mental picture. Now,,the world is packed fiuli of material for new ideas, and onjly the very tiniest portion of this has' been used. . i Draw up a list Of the virtues you admire in other people, then place each one in conjunction with yourself. ■ , . . SEND IMAGINATION AHEAD. Good temper—myself. Me? Goodtempered? Upon my word, I had never thought of it. It is a fact that many peopile do go through life bad tempered because their imagination had never been equal to picturing good temper. Make another list of all the things you can do, then take a trades and professional directory and place each word in the first list against every trade and profession and see what possibility the combination suggests. The number of new ideas will surprise you, and it only takes one to make an opening. Every city and every hamlet is full of opportunities if only your imagination can picture them. You are only tied down so long as you can’t get out of your mental rut. Send you imagination on ahead, to the land of Better Days, an advance messenger, to say you are 'coming—and leave behind your whole picture gallery of feeble, and worn-hut thinking. •