Create Your Best Life
"You can create what you want in life; first you have to imagine
it clearly. Imagine your ideal scene," Marc Allen, The
Millionaire Course.
How do you use your imagination to create your ideal scene?
If you want to be inspired to create your best life, I'll share
with you some of the ideas I've used.
1. Write out your top ten values. Write quickly and without
editing. A value is what is important to you. For example,
wealth, freedom, enjoying a great relationship, and creative
self-expression are values. Your values are what you want to
spend your time doing. If something is not important to you, it
is not a value. It's not something you'll be interested in
doing. A value is anything that excites you and makes you feel
more alive.
2. Check if any of your values conflict. When values conflict,
they nullify each other. For example, if you value freedom and
also a good job, there is an apparent conflict. Sometimes you
may have to conform too much in a job to be free. You reconcile
this by finding out how you can enjoy financial security and
freedom. When you can find how both values can work in harmony,
you'll be able to integrate them.
3. Check if your values are something you're moving toward or
whether you're trying to move away from something. For example,
if wealth is a value, ask if you're choosing wealth because
you're avoiding poverty. If you do, you'll be focusing on
avoiding poverty. By thinking of poverty, you're staying in that
loop because you get more of what you focus on. Instead find
ways to make wealth attractive to you: imagine the relief of
bills paid, the comfort of the new house, the thrill of the new
sports car, and so on. This way you'll be pulled toward wealth
and you won't focus on poverty at all.
4. Now rewrite your top ten values into goals. Write the goals
in either the present or the past tense. If you write them in
the future tense, you're subtly pushing them away. The future
will always be one step ahead of you.
5. Finally, use these goals to describe your ideal scene. How
do you want the goal to look as you approach the deadline for
its realization.
6. Doing this exercise should give you a lift. As you write out
your ideal scene, you should feel a thrill of anticipation. If
your ideal scene does not excite you, then your goals are not
compelling enough because they're based on values that you don't
care about. In this case, you have to revisit your values and
think about what it is that you really want for yourself.
7. Now your plan is to daily activate your subconscious mind to
bring these goals into your experience. You'll do this by
writing out your ideal scene the first thing in the morning
every morning until it shows up in your life.
Imagine your life if you chose to design it!