SuccessfulMindset

Do you remember what it was like when you were a kid and you would daydream of all the things you’d accomplish some day?  The cars you’d drive?  The trips you’d take?  The places you’d see?  Maybe  you still do that today while you’re at work or in traffic, or maybe on Sunday night while dreading having to head back to the office the next morning.

Or maybe you don’t anymore because it all seems so far away and impossible to achieve…with bills to pay, debt to pay off, and a huge list of things that aren’t all that important but still remain undone and require attention, sometimes it’s easy to get bogged down and burried underneath “life”.  And it’s kind of sad.

So here’s what we’re going to do: I’m giving you permission to sit back and relax for a second.  Go ahead, take a deep breath - actually, take two or three and just push back from the screen for a second and go the place you’d most like to be right now…  Where is it?  What are you doing?  What’s the weather like?  If you could be anywhere on the planet right now doing anything you wanted, what would that be?

What is your “Perfect Day” like?  Who do you spend it with?  Where do you go?  What do you drive or fly in on your way there?  Are you headed to Europe on a private jet with some of your closest friends where you’ll stay at 5-star accomodations until you take your Mediterranean cruise?  Or maybe you’re driving up to your log cabin outside of Aspen for a week of skiing and snow-mobiling…or perhaps you and some of your buddies are taking your exotic sports cars on a tour of the US, looking forward to trips through Kansas, New Mexico, and Arizona where you can really see if they hit 200mph!

Maybe you’re just sleeping in late and having a nice quiet breakfast with your spouse, strolling around the mall and then catching a movie…and then going to see another one right after because you don’t have to wake up to go to work the next morning! 

It doesn’t matter what your perfect day or your dream is - it just matters that you have one and know what it is!!  Without a dream, without goals, we just wander through life hoping that some day it’ll get better.  But without goals and dreams, without something to continually shoot for and strive for, you’re destined to fade off into mediocrity like 98% of the rest of the population that’s waiting for something to happen.  The day you wake up without a dream is the day you die.

Ben Franklin said long ago that most people die at the age of 22…sadly, they’re not burried until 65. (paraphrased)  You don’t have to be one of those statistics…you can choose to dream again!

Here are some of the things I’ve found that help to get the dreaming parts of my brain working again (takes a while to get the rust off after too many years in The Matrix!):

• Pick up magazines at B&N or Borders with lots of pictures of your favorite things: cars, homes, travel destinations, etc
• Check out websites that have similar content: RobbReport.com is a great one
• Cut out pictures from the magazines and put them up on your fridge so you see them all the time (Tip: What you see you give strength to)
• Sit around and dream together with your spouse or friends - talk about how life WILL be when you get where you want to be
• Write down some of those dreams and start working on turning them into goals
• Develop a gameplan to achieve those goals and do something each day to bring yourself closer to them

When we do things like this it makes each day worth living and we’re excited to get out of bed (provided we got enough sleep!) because we know that each day brings us closer to that dream, and that’s how we’re designed to live.

Sometimes I hear people say, “I wouldn’t want to do that - it’d only remind me of what I can’t have.”  And my response to that is, “All the more reason to get started NOW.  You are no different or less special than anyone else on this earth who has accomplished those things - you must simply believe that you’re worthy of accomplishing them and then find a mentor that can help get you there.”  That mentor can be a live person (the best option), books, CDs, etc - there are many sources to learn and grow from, but the key is to first believe it’s possible, and then plug in to a source that will help guide you on the path to your dream. 

So, sit back, take a deep breath, and spend some time thinking about that perfect day…go back often…and eventually, if you take action, someday in the near future you’ll actually be there!

To your success,
Steve