Feel the Pull

Each day I have a habit.  It is one of the first things that I do in the morning.  I go down to my office and I turn on Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's "Over the Rainbow".  Ever since my first trip to Hawaii in 2010, hearing this song immediately puts me in an empowered and positive state.  While the song is playing I visualize.  I visualize the successful accomplishment of my ultimate goals (long term), and then I visualize the successful accomplishment of my short term goals.

When I visualize I try to create a picture in my mind as clear and vividly as possible.  I then take the visualization a step further.  I ask myself the following questions:

• How do I feel, having successfully accomplished this goal?

• What does the successful accomplishment of this goal mean to me?

Then, in my mind, I answer these questions, and I experience the feeling of the successful accomplishment of my goal.  I experience the feeling of what the goal means to me.

By the time this exercise is done (and it lasts only the length of the song) I feel a tremendous PULL in my life.  My vision for what I want my life to look like is pulling me.  Willpower is no longer necessary.  I don't have to convince myself of anything.  I am being pulled.  The vision is so clear, so compelling, and so vivid that it creates an incredible force in my life.  The power of pull. 

It hasn't always been this way.  Up until a couple of years ago my daily habits were like most peoples.  I would wake up and immediately I would think of all the things that I needed to DO.  My to do list would control my mind and my schedule.  But here is the problem.  When I was directed by what I needed to DO, this created anxiety in my life.  I would get stressed very easily.  I would get frustrated very easily at all the things that I needed to DO that I didn't want to do.  I would plan my life based on my to do list, but I never felt the passion, the excitement and the energy of the pull that I now feel.

When you are being pulled by a compelling vision you don't feel fear or anxiety, you feel excitement and anticipation.  The key however is that you have to experience it first in your mind or order for the power to manifest.  You have to feel what it feels like to successfully accomplish your goal.  Once you have felt that your mind will work like a tracking device, a heat seeking missile, pulling you to the vision that you have already experienced.

All it takes is a simple habit and a pattern of conditioning for this to work.

You have 5 minutes each day to do this. 

Stop the dis-empowering pattern of the TO DO list.  Don't be passive in your life.  Don't let stress and anxiety of what needs to be done control you.  Create in your mind a clear and compelling vision of exactly what you want, and then feel the pull.  When you feel the pull you will work into the night without fatigue.  You will wake up early, excited and engaged to take the necessary steps you need to make the vision in your mind a reality.