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THE UNSEEN: How to Create a Life That Doesn’t Exist Yet

  • Heidi Schmitz Colombo
  • Dec 7, 2025
  • 3 min read

Most people live their lives inside the limits of what they can see. They make decisions based on their circumstances, their past, and their current outcomes.


But here’s the truth:


Everything you see in your life right now was once unseen.


Your job. Your home. Your confidence. Your relationships. Your habits. Your identity.

All of it began as an idea, a spark, a possibility — something that lived only in your imagination.

What you see today is simply the after-effect of what you once believed, envisioned, or tolerated.

And if that’s true — and it is — then the fastest way to change your life is to stop trying to rearrange the “seen,” and start creating from the “unseen.”


This concept is so simple. So foundational. So powerful. And yet…we overlook it every day.


The Seen vs. The Unseen

You have two worlds around you at all times:


1. The Seen — your current reality

Your bank balance. Your job title. Your body. Your home. Your calendar. Your routines. Your results.

This world is visible. Concrete. Familiar. Predictable.

But it is also old.

The “seen” is a snapshot of your previous thinking.


2. The Unseen — your imagination and inner state

Your desires. Your ideas. Your future self. Your potential. Your dreams. Your intuition. Your identity in its next level.

This world is invisible…but it is far more real than we give it credit for.

Because everything you will one day have, be, or create begins here first.


Why We Settle for the Seen

Most people unknowingly make a huge mistake:

They base their decisions on what they can see right now.

  • “I can’t afford that.”

  • “I’ve never done it before.”

  • “It seems impossible.”

  • “I don’t know how.”

  • “Maybe later.”

  • “I’m not ready.”

These are seen-based thoughts. They take the present and project it into the future.

But that’s not how new realities are created. It’s how old ones are repeated.


The Universe’s Reminder: Your Dreams Don’t Follow Logic

Your nighttime dreams don’t operate on limits:

One night you’re selling balloons. The next night you’re a monarch.

There’s no continuity. No scarcity. No “that doesn’t make sense.”

Your imagination is the same way —if you let it be.


The Universe was reminding you:

Stop trying to build your future inside the constraints of your present. Your future comes from the unseen — not from the seen.

This is how you create breakthrough results. Not from willpower. Not from working harder. From seeing what doesn’t exist yet…and letting it guide you.


How to Create From the Unseen 

1. Stop shrinking your desires into something “realistic”

If you start with “What’s realistic?” you’ll recreate the same life over and over.

Start with:

“If nothing was impossible, what would I want?”

Don’t filter it. Don’t shrink it. Don’t justify it.

Just name it.

This step unlocks the unseen.


2. Imagine the end — not the process

Most people imagine:

“I want to become ______.”

That is imagining from the outside.

Try this instead:

Imagine what it feels like once it’s already done. Imagine being the person who already has it.

This shift — imagining FROM, not OF — is the key.

It bypasses fear, logic, and resistance. It teaches your mind a new identity.


3. Take one action that matches the “unseen” vision

Your current self takes action from fear, limitation, or habit.

Your future self takes action from clarity, possibility, and belief.

Ask:

“What would the version of me who already has this do today?”

Then do one action that aligns with that version.

Just one.

  • If Future You is a coach → publish one piece of content.

  • If Future You is fit → move your body for 15 minutes.

  • If Future You is wealthy → make one empowered money decision.

  • If Future You is confident → keep one promise to yourself today.

Small aligned actions create massive shifts.

The unseen becomes seen.


The Most Overlooked Truth

Your circumstances do not create your future.

Your imagination does.

Your belief does. Your decision does. Your identity does.

The seen world is slow. The unseen world is fast, creative, limitless.

The people who create extraordinary lives aren’t more talented. They simply trust the unseen more than the seen.

And they act from where they’re going —not from where they are.


THE INVITATION

This week, ask yourself:

“What am I trying to create from the seen when I should be imagining it in the unseen?”

And then take one small step that your future self would be proud of.

The moment you do, you are no longer repeating your life —you are creating it.

One unseen vision at a time.


 
 
 

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