You know the version of yourself I'm talking about.
The one who made things. Who had ideas that surprised even you. Who walked into problems and found angles nobody else had thought of. Who was, in almost every room you ever walked into, the one people turned to when they needed someone to think differently.
You know that version of you. You remember it. And somewhere along the way — without a specific moment you can point to, without a dramatic ending — it went quiet.
Not gone. Quiet.
And you've been carrying that quiet for long enough that it's starting to feel permanent. Starting to feel like who you are now, rather than a stage you're passing through.
This is for you. And the first thing I want to tell you is: it didn't go anywhere.
It didn't go anywhere. It's been waiting. With extraordinary patience. For someone to finally ask.
It wasn't age. It wasn't the career. It wasn't the children, or the mortgage, or the years of being too busy and too tired and too needed by everyone else to have anything left.
Those things contributed to the conditions. But the actual reason is simpler, and stranger, and in some ways more hopeful than any of those things.
Your creativity went quiet because nobody asked for it anymore.
Think about what your days actually require of you. Most of them, most of the time, ask you to execute. To manage. To respond, maintain, organise, show up, deliver. They ask for the parts of you that are reliable and capable and efficient.
They almost never ask for the part of you that imagines. That invents. That steps into a blank page and builds something from nothing.
And here is the thing neuroscience has been quietly confirming for years: the imaginative brain is not a fixed resource. It is a living system. It responds to what is asked of it. Use it, and it expands. Leave it unasked, and it goes still — not dead, but waiting. Patient. Ready.
The researchers call it the default mode network — the part of your brain responsible for imagination, creative thought, and the ability to envision futures that don't yet exist. Studies show it remains fully capable of activation throughout your entire life. It doesn't diminish with age. It diminishes with disuse.
You didn't lose your creativity. You just stopped asking it to show up.
The imaginative brain doesn't age out. It waits. And the moment you give it something genuinely worthy, it comes back — more fully than you expected.
You may have tried things. Most people in this particular quiet have tried things.
The craft kit with the little numbered steps. The online course with its modules and its certificates. The mindfulness app urging you to breathe and be present. The book club. The wellness retreat. The journal you kept for three weeks before it ended up in a drawer.
And perhaps some of them helped, in a gentle and temporary way. Perhaps some of them gave you a flicker of something that felt almost like the thing you were missing.
But none of them held it. Because none of them were actually asking for it.
Here is the difference between activity and genuine creative challenge: activity fills the time. It keeps you occupied. It can even be pleasant. But it does not ask your imagination to do anything it hasn't already done a thousand times before. It does not surprise you. It does not stretch you. It does not produce the particular exhilaration of making something that has genuinely never existed before.
What you are hungry for is not more activity. It is real challenge. The kind that takes everything you've got. The kind that makes you realise, midway through, that you are more capable than you remembered.
The craft kit was never going to give you that. It wasn't designed to.
I want to describe something to you.
You're working on something. A problem. A world you're building. An idea that has no boundaries and no instructions and no right answer. And somewhere in the middle of it — maybe an hour in, maybe three — you surface and realise that an extraordinary amount of time has passed.
You were somewhere else. Completely. Wholly. In the way that only happens when your full self is engaged.
That state has a name. Psychologists call it flow — the experience of complete absorption in a challenge that sits at the edge of your capability. Not too easy. Not impossible. Exactly right. The sweet spot where your skills meet something that demands them fully.
It is, quite simply, one of the best feelings a human being can have. And it is available to you. Right now. Not after you retire, not after the children leave, not after you find more time. Now.
Because flow doesn't require hours. It requires the right kind of challenge. And the right kind of challenge is closer than you think.
That feeling of being completely, wholly elsewhere — mind fully engaged, time disappeared — that's not nostalgia. That's available to you right now.
I want to tell you about the moment that changes everything.
It's not dramatic. There's no lightning bolt. It's quieter than that — and more permanent.
It's the moment you sit down with a genuine creative challenge and you realise, slowly, that something in you that has been very still is beginning to move again. That the part of you that makes things, invents things, imagines things, is coming forward. Curious. Interested. Remembering what it feels like to be asked.
People who have had that moment describe it in remarkably similar ways. Like waking up. Like remembering something they forgot they knew. Like coming home to a version of themselves they had quietly missed.
That moment is available to you. And it begins with one thing: a mission worthy of who you actually are.
IMAGENIQ Passion is a monthly creative program for adults who are ready to stop going through the motions.
Each month, a new mission arrives. Not a craft project. Not a prompt. Not a gentle creative exercise. A genuine challenge — the kind that requires your imagination, your perspective, your full self. The kind that produces something that has never existed before.
There are no instructions. There is no right answer. There is only what you bring — and the extraordinary thing that emerges when someone finally asks you to bring it.
You don't need to be an artist. You don't need to be a designer or a writer or a maker of any particular kind. You just need to be a person with an imagination that has been waiting, quietly and patiently, for exactly this.
If this is you — if the creative one is still in there and has simply been waiting for someone to ask — IMAGENIQ Passion was built for this moment. Come and find out what you're still capable of.
75% of people think they are not living up to their creative potential. That means only 25 % think they are. What about personal potential? That percentage would be even lower. Although that is a sad reality, it does present a massive range of opportunities and potential for growth. That is what we are here for: TO IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES.
We can only improve and innovate the human experience by focusing on individual human potential, purpose and meaning. To do this, we need to innovate education at all levels as well as our professional lives. We need to demand policy changes and take greater control over our lives and society. Working with a person’s strengths and seeing the INNER GENIUS within every person we come across. It is time we lead with our heart and soul.
We provide a world where your dreams can run wild. A space where there are no limits. Where you can push the boundaries in the best possible way. Let’s change the world – one brilliant idea at a time.