Inc Description Envisage

To envisage is to picture something as a possible future. It’s the tool I’ve used throughout my career. Without it I couldn’t have built a career in Japan, and I certainly couldn’t have turned the thought “I want to create my own brand of fashion doll” into Smart Doll.

We can all envisage the future, but how you do it makes all the difference to whether your goals become real.

Picturing something that doesn’t exist yet is how humans went from roaming the savanna to roaming space. It’s the blueprint for making it happen.

Whatever your goal, a dream job or your own gig making things, start by picturing what living it will be like, in as much detail as you can. Where are you? What can you see and hear? Is it warm, dark, bright, windy, rainy? Who’s with you, what do they look like, and how do you talk to each other? What are you doing, and what’s around you? How does it feel to have made it?

Get it detailed enough and you can walk around inside it as your future self. Over to the wooden table by the window with the thin gray curtains. Pick up the thick green book and read what’s inside. Feel the cool evening air and hear the birds overhead as the setting sun turns the sky deep orange.

A vision that vivid pulls you toward it. It gives you the will to do the hard work, to choose discomfort and change over the comfort zone, and to get up every time you stumble. And stumble you will.

A million years ago, early humans didn’t understand fire, but they knew it kept them warm and made meat easier to chew, so they used it. We still don’t fully understand quantum mechanics, but we use it every day in computers, GPS and MRI scanners. I can’t give you a scientific explanation for why envisioning the future powers your will to keep going. What I can do is keep sharing how it became a brand of fashion dolls called Smart Doll.

With Smart Doll, the future is in your hands.