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Your Troubles are Over

Pretend that I just gave you 50 million dollars (after taxes). Would that be enough to allow you to create your perfect vocational day without worrying about earning money? Good.

How will you spend the next six months? Many of you will quit your jobs, travel, pay off debts and buy stuff, right?

OK, six months later and look at you! Tanned, relaxed, peaceful. Now with the money you have left, write down exactly how you will spend an average day for the rest of your life. Be specific, from the time you wake up to the time you go to sleep.

Now I have some bad news. You have to give all the money back. But the good news is you can keep your vision of how you would spend your days if you had all the money you would ever need.

Patterns of Possibilities

Look for patterns. Examine the patterns of your day when you thought you had the money. Find examples of activities where you could make money. Don’t worry at this point how much money. Using these patterns, rewrite a perfect vocational day that would get you really excited. Write this down as a typical average day that you would enjoy for the rest of your life. You are finished when you are breathless.

Align your passions, abilities and interests. This is where you give yourself permission to take the next step. Write a biography of yourself five years from now describing the life you wish you were living. You are done only when you have become really excited about it. Then write a biography of today and examine the gap. This will create the tension you will need as momentum to start acting to close the gap.

Don’t wait for permission. Don’t wait for your spouse or your boss or your kids or society to give you approval. The permission to start to create and live your perfect vocational day must come from within yourself. If this was easy, I wouldn’t need to write this article. And I wouldn’t need to do the work I do helping people believe what is possible in their lives. This may be the hardest thing you will ever do, but your life will never be the same.

Be careful what you envision. Many times, your mind can’t tell the difference between what you imagine and what is real when thinking about the future. This is good news when you start to envision your perfect vocational day. You are not alone. This is a journey. We all seek and very few achieve, but it is possible with your hard work. Your authentic life is possible.

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