Create a Better Life for Yourself in 3 Steps

Items Needed

– Journal
– Pen
– Awareness
– Intention
– Willingness
– Commitment
– Patience

1. Figure out where you really really really want to be in life.

The number one reason why people don’t get what they want in life is because they don’t know what they want.

If you don’t know what you want, how do you expect God, Universe or The Source to bring it too you? It’s like telling your best friend to go to the mall for you and bring you back something that you really really need, except you fail to tell them exactly what that is. You tell them to bring you back something that will make you happy. How successful do you think they would be with this mission?

Guessing at the game of life is a sure fire way to lose the game. Imagine you were the head coach of a sports team and you have no idea about the rules. How successful do you think you would be? Your players would be turning to you for direction and you would be turning to the heavens for help. Right now you are playing the most important game of your life. The only difference in this game is that you are both the star player and the only coach.

Take at least 5 minutes a day to brainstorm what you want to get out of this life. Give yourself a quiet space, free from interruptions like people and phone calls. Allow your creativity to flow and don’t criticize your ideas. Continue with this process until you feel excited and passionate about what is on paper. The litmus test for this passion is that every time you think about this idea you will feel invigorated, enlivened, and enthusiastic. If the goosebumps don’t come keep looking.

2. Figure out where you are right now in relation to your goal.

Change means moving one place to another. If you want to travel anywhere there are two coordinates that you need. First you need to know the place you are going, your destination. If you don’t know where you are going how do you expect to ever get there? You can’t. The second thing you need to know is where you are now in relation to your destination. If you don’t know where you are going how will you know if you aren’t already there?

Likewise, if you have a target that you are aiming FOR it only makes sense to know where you are aiming FROM right? Only with realistic and accurate coordinates can you make an honest effort to reach your goal. Without the proper coordinates you might as well be aiming blindfolded. So how do you know where you stand? In order to measure where you are now you first need to take stock of your skills and strengths.

Brainstorm a list of accomplishments and write them down on paper. Write down all the times you were successful and the skill set that allowed for that success. Go as far back as you can remember. Next measure them in relation to your goal. How can these set of skills and strengths help you move towards this goal? Finally, devote time daily to strengthen your skills and build your strength.

3. Figure out the best use of your time in each moment of every day.

Now that you know where you want to go and you have a general idea of where you are in relationship to that goal, you can now begin to concentrate your efforts on getting there. This is the easiest part of the 3 step process. Once you know the path that you must walk on it’s just a matter of moving forward step-by-step.

Be patient with yourself, remember that no matter what with each step comes experience that you can use to move you closer to your goal. Even if it is the experience of failure. Celebrate your failures instead of dwelling on them. It doesn’t matter how many times that you fall down, only that you choose to pick yourself up every time. The only time that ever matters is how you spend this moment. How do you spend your time?

Do you spend your time like you want to actually live the life of your dreams? Hopefully your effort matches your results and if they don’t yet, keep at it because they soon will. You can keep on track by asking yourself, “what is the best use of my time right now?” as often as possible throughout the day. Your biggest responsibility is deciding what will lead you the fastest to your goal. Choose wisely with your ever increasing awareness and ever gaining experience.

Manifesting Dream House

When I was young I remember asking my friends at school, in particularly females what their ideal dream life would consist of. The number of kids and whether or not to have a dog seemed to vary from girl to girl but what was strikingly consistent was the idea of a dream house. The typical dream house usually consisted of a large home with trees surrounded by a white picket fence. Do you remember what your dream house used to look like? Are you living in it yet?

For me my dream house actually came through to me in a dream when I was 9 years old. For a period of a couple weeks after I would fall asleep every night I would dream about going into this house. Every successive night I would travel further into the house. What stood out about this house was that it was absolutely huge! I remember thinking to myself, wow, wouldn’t it be cool to live in a house like that? Well this post isn’t about me actually manifesting that specific house, but instead what I feel is a pretty neat story about my latest dream house.

A couple years ago my girlfriend surprised me with tickets to a local charity event that involved driving all across the city I live in to tour nice homes and view beautiful gardens. The entire tour was cool and we were travelling from house to house.  The fourth house on the tour was in an area near the community that we currently live in but we had never even spotted before. This was a little unusual because we take the dog for walks around the adjoining neighborhoods or go for drives and yet somehow this neighborhood had been hiding. As we entered the community searching for the home we were supposed to tour we actually stumbled across this beauty tucked into a cul-de-sac backing onto to a reservoir.

This house immediately caught my eye and I was drawn to it somehow. The scope and lines of the house, the lime stone work and the turrets all make this a dream home for me. I could just picture entertaining friends and family in the backyard of this house, and was thinking to myself “I wish this home was on the tour!” Unfortunately the house wasn’t on the tour, and after being back to the charity event every year subsequently I can tell you that it still hasn’t been. But I was compelled to get out of my car and take this picture.

Finding my dream home by “accident” would make for a good story but what happened in the next couple weeks following makes this story even more interesting. This house had apparently affected me quite a deal, in fact I found myself dreaming about going inside of it on a couple occasions. I dreamed about this beautiful house and haven’t to tell the owners that they had to move out because I was ready to move in. I remember waking up from these seemingly real dreams wondering how exactly I was “imagining” the inside of the house, after all, I hadn’t been inside of it yet. I discounted the dreams as merely the residual excitement from coming across my dream home.

A little over a week later after getting home from running errands I am checking the mail and find a magazine in it. I check to see who the subscription belongs to and there is no name anywhere on the magazine but the name of the magazine is “Best Homes”. Hmmm… I think to myself, that’s odd, I don’t recall ordering this and the price is $6.95 Cdn, so it’s not like it has been delivered door-to-door. Besides, if it was a free subscription why didn’t it have any sign up papers accompanying it and why haven’t I ever received one since?

I take it and the rest of the mail inside the house and begin flipping through the magazine. What absolutely shocked me was that this magazine featured my new dream house. Not only did it contain the house I was dreaming about but it was the main feature, and accordingly had a several pages written up along with a photo spread! Now I was able to confirm the pictures to those in my dreams (eerily accurate I might add) and was able to get a real picture of what this house really looked like. It was like the heavens were opening up and saying, “yes this is your house” and showing me the way.

This whole story as it unfolded was very amazing to me as I contemplated what would have to happen in order for me to get this magazine. The odds of it occurring as a chance happening are almost completely impossible, let alone that it featured the house I was so passionate about. The truth is that Manifestation happens and it always follows the intentions that we focus on the most. What intentions of yours are you spending the most time, attention and energy on manifesting?

When you are clear about what you want, the Universe, Source, or God loves to provide it for you. As your Imagination Coach I can show you how to get out of your own way when it comes to manifesting your dreams, whether that is a dream house, dream job, dream relationship etc. Please feel free to check out the rest of the site for more information on manifesting your dream life.