But what if someone said that you were often overtaken by impractical ideas, or that you seemed governed by the supernatural? That you were childish or foolish? Yet, if you look in your dictionary, these are some of the meanings you'll find under the word "visionary." And that's exactly as it should be.

Children are masters of vision, imagination, and inspiration precisely because they've not strangled those gifts with so many rules about what's acceptable or silly. They easily "make pretend," create and envision. Vision is inseparable from impracticality; it's fueled by creativity and inspiration, and in turn fuels and inspires others.

After all, if a thing were highly practical or utterly ordinary, it wouldn't be very visionary, would it? Vision is inspired, as if by a source outside of our "business as usual" ways of thinking. Vision is the ability, or perhaps gift, to look beyond the ordinary and past the obvious, and imagine what might be possible.

Visionaries "see with their other eyes" and "hear with their other ears," and are connected to a source of inspiration much higher and greater than their "smallest selves and minds" Visionaries light the way into higher and greater potential and possibilities.

We at Ivy Sea celebrate vision, and the visionaries and "inspirationaries" among us, and offer some tools and ideas for inspiring the visionary in you that exists in us all.

Ivy Sea's public web library

— PDF Creativity Booster Guides and Workbooks

— Creative Vision, Transcendent Leadership (Article Series)

— Cultural Creativity in Leadership & Business (Article Series)

— Practices for connecting with Ancestor Wisdom

— Color wisdom series: Get out of neutral and color your world

— Rediscovering your vision: Do you "believe in stuff"?

— Truly visionary leadership (does it really exist?)

— One terrific way to spark your creative genius

— Do you have a personal vision and plan?

— Ivy Sea's Brain Food Cafeteria - Public collection

— Storytelling for individuals and organizations (portal)

— Big-Vision Enterprise & Marketing (Conscious Work Portal)

— Writing and Publishing - An Ivy Sea Portal

— Power vision: Steps for creating what you truly want

— Tenets in common: Honing virtue in the workplace

— Vision and ethics: Is your vision ethical?

— Ivy Sea's Inspired Visioning Tip Series

— What's your vision, and has it come to life?

— Eight steps to help create a visionary enterprise

— Great tools for creative discussions

— Ivy Sea's Brain Food Cafeteria - VIP-only collection

The Ivy Sea VIP Membership Content Center includes 165-plus html and PDF VIP-only articles, tip sheets, and dialogue-starters for use in professional and personal development, leadership development, and training.

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ReImagine. ReVision. ReVitalize. ReCreate.

Leave your small thinking behind. Expand your awareness, vision and skillfulness.

• Infinity Affinity - Conscious World Vision

• Creativity for Life

• Talent Development

• Cre8 with Robert Alan Black, PhD

• Creative Ideas UK

• Creativity Workshop

• Soul Food Cafe - An Online Muse

• The Center for Visionary Leadership

• Vision, Inspiration & Purpose (Walker)

• Finding your vision through storytelling

• Tera's Wish - Musings on Creativity

• US Neighbor's on Creativity & Vision

Please surf carefully and apply your findings mindfully! There's a lot of great information here on the web, but only you can decide what's appropriate for your group.