It's time for you to get out of your chair, stop reading Facebook, and dance! That's right, I said dance! Because, compadres/madres, the revolution is here!
Celebrating will put you in the mood to create - create a vision that you are willing to work for. That might mean not watching "The Office" or "Jersey Shore" this week, and perhaps for several weeks to come. But, you will have changed the world. Just by changing yourself! As a friend put it, "if it's the end of the world, then let's have a dance party sleepover!" And, that's just what I'm asking you to do!
When was the last time you felt a buzz of happiness that started as a tickle at the top of your head, stretched your lips out into the broadest smile, gave you happy butterflies in the stomach, and made your knees go weak? Well, that's just what you're gonna get when you start living your vision. How? Follow me:
1. Close your eyes and imagine that you've just woken up and the world is completely different. It's perfect - just as you'd always hoped it could be.
2. Start describing what you saw in this world. Write, draw, paint, use any creative medium to put down just what you saw in that perfect world.
3. Keep writing, drawing, etc. Give it the details that will make it full and lush! Remember, it's just as you've always known it could be.
4. Now, breathe. And, breathe some more.
5. Tell yourself that the change has happened. Believe it.
6. What do you do now in this perfect world? How do you behave? What are your thoughts and feelings? Show it in the creative medium you chose (writing, drawing, etc).
7. Breathe again.
8. Go over what you created.
9. Smile from head to toe.
10. Figure it out. Figure out what each part of your vision meant - whether it was literal or symbolic.
11. Decide which action you will be to take first. Decide to behave in the manner you described.
12. Continue each day fulfilling what you saw in your vision of the world you've always wanted. Step by step.
13. When you encounter obstacles, remember, you can always close your eyes and vision a sea of solutions.
C'mon everybody, dance! Get your vision going on! Then put it down on the ground, make it real!
"Keeping it real is keeping it real mediocre. You gotta' MAKE it real, and to make it real, you gotta' pick it up and rise above the crawl."
- Steve V. (20+ yrs. pro skater)
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