Create in the NOW
From Dream to Enhavim
Every productivity expert is teaching you to solve the wrong problem. While you're trying to manage time better, a few people are doing something completely different with time itself.
What separates your biggest dream from reality? The way you think about time. Time is not money but time does relate to success. More than talent or luck, understanding what time actually is gives you the edge.
What Leonardo Saw That Others Missed
Leonardo da Vinci filled thousands of pages with designs for flying machines, submarines, and automated looms. While his contemporaries focused on next week's commission or next month's payment, Leonardo imagined machines that wouldn't exist for centuries.
Leonardo's helicopter took 450 years to fly. His notebooks reveal something most people miss entirely: he made daily creative decisions while holding technological visions spanning hundreds of years. Leonardo wasn't sketching fantasies. He was engineering the future. His parachute was successfully tested in 2000 at the turn of the millennium, exactly as he drew it.
What Cathedral Builders Knew That You Don't
140 years later. Antoni Gaudí began the Sagrada Família in 1882, knowing he'd never see its completion. He spent his final years living on-site, making daily design decisions he envisioned taking centuries to finish and the cathedral continues being built.
Not Everyone Thinks Like Gordon Moore. In 1965, he predicted computing's future while making daily engineering choices guided by technological timelines spanning decades. The Rosetta Project linguists have been doing something similar since 2004, preserving languages for civilizations that don't yet exist.
The Question Steve Jobs Asked Every Morning. One simple question that most people find terrifying to consider. This daily practice separated him from everyone else in his field. The question itself reveals why most people never bridge their biggest dreams to their daily reality - it's explored in depth in Chapter 3, along with how to use Jobs' approach in your own creative work.
What connected all these minds? They operated across time scales simultaneously. But there's something deeper at work here... Explore Time Architecture
I thought I understood time management until I read this book. Now I realize I was fighting against time instead of working with its true nature.
Time Doesn't Work the Way You Think It Does
Every productivity expert teaches the same lie. Manage your time better. Plan your week. Optimize your schedule. But they're all solving the wrong problem.
The people who build things that last centuries don't manage time. They do something else entirely. Something most people never discover because they're too busy trying to squeeze more hours from their day.
There's a hidden architecture to time that becomes visible when you look:
- Daily decisions vs. decade outcomes vs. century-spanning visions
- Personal time vs. project time vs. generational time vs. civilizational time
- How to hold 100-year goals while making today's choices
- Why most planning fails: it operates on only one time scale
Once you understand how time really works, your daily choices suddenly connect to something much larger. But this leads to an even deeper question about where breakthrough thinking actually comes from... Discover the Secret
The Hidden Space of Creation
Brainstorming sessions rarely produce breakthrough ideas. Innovation workshops follow the same tired formulas. Companies schedule "creative time" and wonder why nothing revolutionary emerges.
Yet breakthrough creativity isn't random. To have a big creative idea is the subject of Dreamer, an Emmy-winning 2020 documentary executive-produced by Giovanni Marsico. The film reveals patterns among visionaries like Richard Branson, Seth Godin, and Dean Kamen - they all discovered how to access this creative realm consistently.
Creativity resists commands. It ignores schedules. Whiteboards and sticky notes cannot summon it.
Real creation happens in a place that eludes conventional thinking. Where ideas surface naturally, without force or strain. Where bold thinking flows effortlessly because you align with creation's true nature instead of fighting it. Unlock Creative Space
The visionaries you met earlier all accessed this realm:
- Leonardo found it while sketching impossible machines
- Gaudí entered it while designing for centuries
- Jobs touched it every morning with his daily question
The chapter on creative space completely changed how I approach my work. I finally understand why some days feel effortless while others feel forced.
This creative realm has distinct qualities:
- Ideas surface naturally, without force or strain
- Bold thinking flows effortlessly
- You align with creation's true nature instead of fighting it
- Daily activitiy connects to visions extending far beyond immediate results
How you think about creation shifts when you realize you determine the outcome more than any other factor.
Planning deserves more than most people give it because the urge to act immediately feels productive but rarely is. Start with your vision, purpose, mission and then map the path forward.
A really big dream is not built alone. Having a team leader is necessary, not optional. Big things get built from small pieces. Most people dream big while ignoring the mathematical realities that could actually get them there. You can't foresee every surprise, but you can survive surprises by factoring in buffer, alternatives, and flexibility. Apply these to your big dream.
The visionaries who consistently access the creative realm share something else: they approach creation with principles most people never discover.
But how do you bridge the gap between knowing this realm exists and actually accessing it? The answer lies in a realization that eludes conventional wisdom...
From Dream to Enhavim
Most people start with dreams. Grand visions of what they want to create, build, or become. But most dreams stay dreams, waiting for someday, the right moment, the perfect conditions.
A few people make a different choice. They discover how to bridge the space between dreaming and creating. How to connect their biggest visions to their smallest daily decisions.
This isn't about goal setting or vision boards. It's about a specific integration that has a name: enhavim.
Enhavim is purpose and mission led by vision.
Enhavim represents a meaningful endeavor:
- The integration of what, why, and who before how into focused creation
- An optimal creation framework that converts scattered effort into the value you desire
- A way of operating that serves something larger while fulfilling your deepest creative potential
- The bridge between century-spanning imagination and split-second choices
“Understanding enhavim was like finding the missing piece I didn't know I was looking for. My dreams finally have a pathway to reality.”
The shift from dream to enhavim has levels. An intentional process that moves from imagination through daily reality into what few people experience.
Enhavim represents the specific integration process that transforms scattered dreams into focused creation. Chapter 9 provides the complete framework, including the three-stage transition most people miss and the daily practices that make century-spanning vision practical. Few will make this connection. They'll keep their dreams separate from their daily choices, missing the framework that connects century-spanning vision to split-second choices. Discover Your Enhavim
Meet Sherrie Rose, Author
Sherrie Rose guides clients to bring their decades of experience and defining achievements to life: “Between livelihood and legacy, that's Masterwork.™”
In 2021, she shifted focus, creating the enhavim framework. Sherrie serves high-achievers and legacy-focused leaders become ultra-contributors directed by purpose and mission through vision (enhavim).
As Chief Legacy Officer and Masterwork Advisor, she helps individuals and organizations using AI-enabled digital preservation to create legacy worthy endeavors marked by sharing and genuine care for others' growth and fulfillment.
She has authored several books, founded Masterwork360, volunteers with TEDxSanDiego, and mentors at a transformative learning academy.
Sherrie Rose's personal motto: “The Real Currency is Relationship Riches.”