DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to the hopeful one’s, who have decided to go the distance with their dreams, by finding ways to live them!

This book is dedicated to you, for giving yourself permission to activate what your creator gave you to see your future:

your “Imagination,” when outside influence teaches us to look at it as a “Figment.” This is dedicated to you for choosing to give yourself permission to step outside your mental restrictions with your dream to more than ponder and think, and to plunder and do!

A Definition of Figment:

A thing that someone believes to be real but that exists only in their imagination.  

A Definition of Imagination:

-The faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects that are not present to the senses. 

-The ability of the mind to be creative or resourceful.

-The part of the mind that imagines things.

CHAPTER 1

THE LIMIT 

Once upon a time, or shall I say for a limited frame in time, there was a young child named Ono.

Now, one day Ono overheard a man having an intense conversation, saying to the other man, “This is my limit, and I am not doing anything past this!” 

Ono at this time happened to be walking down the sidewalk with his mom, as they were on their way back to the house coming from the store. Ono had asked his mom saying, “Mom, what did the man mean by that when he said, “This is my limit, and I am not doing anything past this!”?”

Ono’s Mom responded, “Ono, that situation is like your name. Imagine if the “N” in your name represented a person that had to make a decision a decision to either say yes and go on, or say no and stop there, and the “O” represented others that could help.  As you said the man said, “This is my limit,” which is another way of saying no. Now he could have asked “how can I go on,” but he also said, “and I am not doing anything past this,” which in this case is showing that he will not go on. Your name is Ono, and if you start at the “N” and go to the left it spells “NO” and if you go to the right it spells “No.”  When we look at life from a personal position, limits can be seen as a way of keeping you stuck. Now, if we look at life from a different position or social position and see it from the position of the “O” and move towards the “N” from any “O” it will spell “ON.” And in the spirit of moving on we ask: “how can I,” and believe and have hope that we can, we can see that hope. You will see that, seeing yourself, which is represented by the “N” from either “O’s” perspective weather from the left or the right spells “ON,” which in this case means let us move on!”

Narrator: As they continued to head to the house, they continued to finish their conversation.

Ono, responded, “like us, deciding to move on so that you can make those peanut butter cookies that I love to eat after dinner!” 

Ono’s Mom said, “yes Ono, exactly! 

When we say no, sometimes we put limits on ourselves, which can leave us stuck or set. Now there is a difference between being stuck and being set and knowing this will help you to understand the limits of them; being stuck is being somewhere you do not want to be or doing something that you do not want to do; being set is being somewhere you want to be or doing something that you want to do! One is a happy place, and the other is a hurtful place, and both are emotionally intense.” 

Narrator: As they were putting away the groceries and preparing dinner, they continued their conversation.

Ono said, “Mom, so you are saying that limits can keep us in places we want to be or do not want to be, also limits can keep us doing things that we want to do or do not want to do?”

Ono’s Mom said, “Exactly! Limits can work for you or against you!”

Narrator: Then they shared a smile during dinner, as they looked at each other, remembering their day, as they were chewing the peanut butter cookies that Ono loved so much.