LIVE FROM IMAGINATION

May 23, 2025

 📜THE QUOTE

"Live out your imagination, not your history."
– Stephen Covey

🧳 Unpack It

Your past does not define you — unless you let it.

Most people live like they’re stuck in reruns.
Same job. Same habits. Same story.
They let history play on loop, even when it’s holding them back.

But your imagination?
It’s a preview of the life you could live.
And it’s often the version your soul is begging for.

When you start living from imagination instead of memory:

  • You make bold choices.

  • You chase new outcomes.

  • You become the architect of your future — not just the actor in a repeat episode.

But here's the catch:
Living from imagination takes courage.
Because it means doing what you’ve never done…
...to become who you’ve never been.

 🍿STORY TIME: MEET RACHEL

Rachel used to define herself by her mistakes.
She stayed in the same 9–5 for 6 years — not because she loved it, but because she believed she wasn’t "the type" to do something creative.

Then she read that Covey quote.

It struck a nerve.
She realized she was letting old beliefs cage a new dream.

So she did something radical:
She gave herself permission to imagine.

→ She imagined designing digital planners.
→ She imagined a home studio and quiet mornings.
→ She imagined $5K/month and freedom to pick her kids up from school.

That vision felt right — even if it felt scary.

Within three months, she’d launched an Etsy store.
Within a year, she quit her job.
Now? She sells productivity tools to over 2,000 customers.

Rachel stopped living on autopilot.
She imagined something better — and built it.

📝 YOUR TURN

Time for your reflection:

What would your life look like if you designed it from imagination, not memory?
Write it out. No limits. No “realistic” filters.

Then ask yourself:
What’s one small step I can take toward that vision this week?

Even tiny moves break big patterns.

🎥 EXTRA CREDIT

Not sure where to start? Our YouTube video “Meet The Person You Could Be” walks you through the first mental shift you need to make to gain clarity and take control of your time.

👉 Watch our YouTube video: “Meet The Person You Could Be”

🎓 LEVEL UP

Imagination is powerful — but it needs a plan.

Inside the CY24 Community, we turn vision into reality:
→ Lifestyle Design Course
→ Reverse-engineering roadmap
→ Accountability and support

If you’re done letting history write your future…