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Making a Movie of Your Life
I don't recall if I posted this here before, but I just posted this on another forum and thought you might find it useful, too, in helping yourself make the transition into the kind of life you'd like to live.

I don't know how popular this technique is, but I picked it up at a Jim Edwards bootcamp, added some twists of my own to it, and have found it useful (when I don't get too distracted to remember to do it).

I visualize the kind of life I want to have as a movie. For example, I visualize myself walking around my house and seeing all the improvements my wife and I would like to make to it all completed. I walk into my garage and see the kind of car that I would like sitting there.

I walk into my office and check my email. I see personal emails from some of the business owners that I would love to make connections with. I check my schedule and see the classes and seminars I want to teach. I check the projects I'm working on and see them nearing completion and I check my plans for rolling them out and find them on target.

I check my sources of hands-free income and see them producing steadily. I write checks -- not for bills (they've already been paid in full), but to charities that I want to support to a greater degree. Or I book a flight for my wife and I to visit one of our children in various parts of the world -- without having to make plans on how to juggle bills and scrimp and save for months to scrape together enough money for the visit.

One thing I've found to be critical for me in doing this technique is to see this movie through my own eyes and not as an outside observer. When I see myself as an outside observer, watching me do these things from a distance, it tends to reinforce doubts that these things could really happen to me. It seems like I'm watching someone who merely looks like me living this kind of life. But when I see them from the perspective of my own eyes, they feel more real.

I hope this helps.
Jeff

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