2011 Planning – Imagifragmentation

Imagi … WHAT!!

According to this Google Search for Imagifragmentation, I’ve just created a new word because the word doesn’t exist! At the same time, does it really matter because I doubt anyone will be Googling Imagifragmentation any time soon?

The word Imagifragmentation came to me at the start of our holidays after being on a number of financial advisor speaking road trips for 20 of the last 28 days before our holiday.

While we are meeting our goals for 2010 with my main focus of coaching, speaking and writing … on top of this there are:

• 2011 business plan and marketing for coaching, speaking and workshops
• Book update
• Coaching and workshop product upgrades
• Data base update
• Powerpoint / speaking presentation creation for 2011
• Powerpoint / speaking presentation qualification from Advocis / CLU for 2011
• Show reel upgrades
• Social media plan
• Web site upgrades
• Virtual assistant plan
• … and that is just off the top of my mind … well not really, these are all 2011 projects

So when all the above was going on and on and on in my road warrior mind 🙂 … on the first part of my holiday, I offered this post on FaceBook:

Simon Reilly – Laura on the beach doing Yoga … 3rd from left in the back … While I caught up on this thing called sleep 🙂

I received the following comment from my friend:

Bob Gignac – Hey – both of you (mostly Simon…) – catch up on a thing called “vacation” – shut the computer, iPhone and Crackberry off – yes, we’ll miss you…but we’ll be happy for you too…..just saying!

Bob gave me the pattern interrupt that I needed to put my iPhone down and I did.

As I got deeper and deeper into our holiday, my mind slowly started to slow down and I started to reconnect with my big picture imagination and the simple feelings that come from being a human being versus a human doing.

I remembered an advisor with a sparkle in his eye that was the best part of 80 years old coming up to me at the end of one of my financial advisor speaking presentations commenting about my thoughts on imagination and he offered me this quote;

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” – Albert Einstein

So at this juncture, as we near the end of 2010, I’m investing time to restore my imagination and spending December being a human being versus being a human doing and this includes less time on Web 2.0 which is Social Media.

In my mind:

• Web 1.0 is Web Site, Blog and E-Newsletter.
• Web 2.0 is FaceBook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

 Web 1.0 is enough for me for now as my Web Site, Blog and E-Newsletter are automatically posted to FaceBook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

I believe I’m using the same strategy as marketing and blogging expert Seth Godin … post a blog and automatically post to FaceBook, LinkedIn and Twitter … that is it. Check out Seth Godin’s November 24^th blog entitled Where Do Ideas Come From?

I want to restore my Imagination for bigger things for 2011.

My thoughts are coming off of this very sobering quote that is included in my 2011 Planning – Take A Think Week Blog …

In an age where we are connecting to everything through our phones, internet, facebook, twitter, etc; we are constantly being interrupted. A couple of years ago, I heard a statistic that having a Blackberry is equivalent to smoking two joints because you are always being interrupted, and never really “here”. Just think about that for a second.