Who you share your imagination with can make a world of difference

​Several years ago, I walked into my boss's office. I had an idea that would significantly change the focus of our work. It was a bit radical relative to our current vision, but when I shared MY vision, she said go get it.

She had no idea what go get it meant. She had no idea how to support me in the go get it other than to say you've got my support. But what she could do, what she DID do, was imagine what I was imagining.

That's been life-changing for me this past decade. My life intersecting with people who can imagine what I'm imagining enough to support my dreams.

A boss. A dear friend. People who have left me forever pointed toward - seeking - people who can imagine what I am imagining.

Not all of us can do that for one another. I am admittedly small minded when it comes to being able to imagine what some other people are imagining.

Imaginations aren't created equal. It's why I've come to believe a key to life is finding the people you can safely imagine with. People who are dream fuel and not dream death.

This is no small key. Albert Einstein says our imaginations act as a preview of the future. Yet, how many futures get derailed because something comes along and derails all that we are imagining.

Too often that is a someone we are imagining with.

As we roll into a new year, we often spend time imagining all that will be different in the year ahead. And at the same time, we reflect on the year we're leaving and often see things we imagined for this past year never came to be.

It's worth considering, as we approach 2024, maybe we don't need to imagine differently. Maybe we need to imagine with different people.

Our imaginations are often the reason we get out of bed in the morning. They are our fuel for life. That makes it pretty important to find people who will be fuel for our imaginations.

Imaginations can often be a preview of the future. I'm imagining some beautiful things for 2024.

For me and for you.