Welcome to this week’s edition
of my newsletter. In this week’s edition we continue our look at the nine
steps to change.
So, how do we create a new vision?
Are you ready to begin the four-step process for creating
your new vision? The four steps are:
- Inspiration: allowing ourselves to think about how
life could be better
- Desire: allowing ourselves to want that solution
passionately
- Enthusiasm: developing a self-confident expectation
for that desired end
- Action: choosing our new way of BEING based on that
vision
Create a list of twenty reasons
For this exercise, we will use the term “rich”, to mean
rich in consciousness. Please feel free to substitute whatever word you think
you need to make your life whole and complete. If our problems are financial,
the word “rich” will fit our needs perfectly.
Whether or not we become rich in the way that fills our
needs most will depend on how galvanized we are towards that end. To implement
and empower our motivation, think about all the reasons why we want to be
rich.
Exercise:
Find a ruled pad; create a list of twenty reasons why you
would want to be rich in your specific way. This list will be the twenty real
benefits you would expect to gain from being rich.
If we don’t know WHY we want to be rich, it can never
happen. But once we have written those twenty reasons down, we will know why
we want to be rich.
Some may find this exercise to be difficult, because this
sort of thinking is outside our current box. Just the thought of being rich
may be uncomfortable for us if we are not powerfully motivated enough to make
the change. But for now, don’t worry about the lack of motivation. Just allow
ourselves to think about how fantastically enjoyable our life would be if our
needs were filled. We will be using some of those twenty reasons to create the
vision that will motivate us.
So, stop reading, get out the pad and write down your
twenty reasons. Do it NOW! If you are serious about becoming rich, don’t stop
with only ten reasons; let your imagination run wild; make your full list of
twenty. Dare to dream.
Prioritizing the list
So, now your list is complete! Great! You have
accomplished the first step to achieving success. My experience is that those
who complete the list will go on to become rich; those who don’t will fizzle
out in the attempt. You’ve just taken yourself out of the ranks of the poor in
consciousness and set yourself on the path toward that better life you’ve
always dreamed of having!
Now, let’s review our list and prioritize it. Once we
have our reasons list in order of their importance, take the top two benefits
and visualize what our life would be like if we had those benefits in our
life. Take a moment to think about who we would be BEING if that vision were
now our reality.
If you’ve passed up the 20-reasons exercise, I suggest
that you go back and do it, now!
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Building a
fire under our why
Now that we know why we want to be rich, it’s time to
build a fire under that desire, fanning the flames until they’re white-hot!
When we want that benefit so much we can taste it, we will make our new BEING
choice. From that point on, our new vision is on the way towards becoming our
reality.
Remember, our job here is to create the vision of a new
reality and maintain it until we are motivated enough to make the new BEING
choice. Even though, we still have a ways to go – our ego must accept that
vision as the new reality. Our elephant must buy into the new vision before it
can go in the direction we want it to!
It’s like quitting smoking
As I’ve said before, coming out of our box is one thing,
staying out is another. Most of those who come out don’t stay. Coming out of
our box is like quitting smoking. It’s easy to quit. I quit several times
before I make it stick. The last time I quit was the day I realized that I had
three cigarettes going at one time. That’s when I finally realized that I
wasn’t having a smoke. The cigarettes had me.
Finally seeing the extent of my addiction to nicotine
opened my eyes to a bad cigarette cough, filthy ashtrays, and the foul smell
of stale smoke in my home and office. That’s when I began to think about the
health benefits of quitting (my twenty reasons). As soon as I sold myself on
those benefits, I had my motivation to quit. I was out of the smoking box and
free! Please get that I had not just chosen to quit smoking. I had chosen to
BE a non-smoker.
Now to empower our reasons for being rich in the ways
that fill our needs, we will put our imagination to work on the vision of
ourselves living that better life. Imagine what our life would be like if we
were already living life abundantly. The process is called visualization.
“Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Now let’s
create our visualization
Now that we have created our list of the twenty benefits
we would hope to gain from becoming rich. Take a look at each item on our list
and imagine ourselves enjoying the fruits of our wealth, whatever that may be.
Remember to phrase this vision as if it were happening now (in present time
consciousness), putting ourselves into that picture. Imagine how we would feel
if we were experiencing that benefit NOW.
If an ocean voyage were one of the twenty benefits we
listed, we might see ourselves walking the deck, feeling the warmth of the sun
on our face, and enjoying the cool ocean breeze gently blowing our hair. We
might be remarking to our companion about the impeccable service in the dining
room and the extravagant/sumptuous seven-course meal we indulged in the
previous evening.
To assist us in creating our visualization find a place
that sells magazines; look for pictures that will help us picture life as it
would be if we were living our dream. Find pictures that represent each of the
twenty benefits on our prioritized list. Cut out those pictures and paste them
up on a solid backing or poster board as a collage. Hang that collage on a
wall in a prominent place and use it to help empower our visualization of life
as it WILL BE when we are living our dream. In that vision we will be enjoying
those twenty benefits of being rich.
As we see yourselves in our new vision, where would we be
living? What kind of car would we be driving? What would we be doing instead
of working? Our collage will help us visualize what our life would be like
living our dream of being rich in whatever way fills our greatest need. The
prime ingredient to OUR new reality is the BEING choice motivated by our
vision.
With our vision, we have converted our desire into
“enthusiastic anticipation”.
…enthusiasm;
Nothing great was ever achieved without it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speaking our dream exercise
Try this! One proven way to empower your dream is to
stand in front of a mirror and tell yourself what your dream reality would
look like. Or find a private place, close your eyes for one minute, and speak
your dream aloud. Tell yourself what you would want your life to be like if it
was perfect. Speaking your words with enthusiasm is a powerful way to activate
your dreams.
The speaking-our-dream exercise is even more powerful if
we can find someone else who also wants to share their dream and participate
in this exercise. When we pair up to do the exercise, we speak our dream,
while our partner in the exercise writes it down. Then we trade places.
While writing our dream, think of it as the script for
the role that we intend to play in life, and then begin acting out the script!
Our success in life will eventually depend on our coming to know who we really
are. Our self-concept expands to new dimensions each time we take charge of
our life and begin living our dream.
Our empowered vision will motivate our new BEING choice.
Unless we know why
Even with all our
wanting we can never be rich because we haven’t chosen to BE. The gap between
wanting something and choosing to BE the one who will have it is so wide that
most “dreamers” will never have the life they want. What they lack is a
burning desire powerful enough to move them to bridge the gap between dreaming
and make a new BEING choice.
Please join us next week when
we continue our discussion. I am please to announce that my new blog is now up
and running.
New Entry:
Fri. - 08/29/08
I would like to invite you to read it at
www.richbits.com/Blog. Have a wonderful week ahead and I look forward to
talking with you next time.
