How To Make “It” Happen
Whether you are building a house or building a relationship, you’ve got to have a vision, to make it happen. If you go in blind eye, and just have a go, you will quickly learn that it is more work than you had anticipated. I am not saying that you cannot be spontaneous in your pursuits, and that if you do, you will not yield fantastic results. I am just saying, that it helps if you have a vision of where you are going ahead of the game.
All great athletes, entrepeneurs, actors, architects, engineers and story tellers HAVE A VISION ahead of time. Yes, they may (and probably will) add or delete part of the plan as they REFINE THE VISION, but they have a vision out the starting gate.
YOU”VE GOT TO HAVE A VISION TO BUILD YOUR DREAMS.
Let me clarify further…
If you need to move out of your home, but you don’t know where to go, how does that make you feel? A little disoriented perhaps? Insecure? Unstable? Yet, if you have a vision ahead of time, of at least some clarity about your next step, you will most likely be looking and finding, your next situation that most matches aspects of your vision. It is the old jungle rule: Never let go of a branch before you’ve got the next one in sight.
What is your vision? What are you “seeing?” What are you thinking about when creating a goal?
Whether it is in your personal or professional life, no matter how big or how small your goals, remember to create a vision to build your dreams.
Here are a few steps to help you along the way:
- Write It Down - I like to ask myself, ” In a perfect Universe, how would I like it to be? ” Write down your vision of how you see “it”. Get specific. The more detailed you are the more alive it becomes. EX: Your ideal house has how many beds/baths etc?
- Use All Your Senses – Make sure you are including not only visual awareness, but auditory and olfactory and kinesthetic sensing. EX: Your ideal house is quiet, or you can hear the buzz of the city. The smell of the local coffee shop wakes you up in the morning, or the wafting of the sweet smell of the morning dew on the grass.
- Make A Vision Board - Put photos, clippings, words and other images together in a “dream” collage. EX: If you always wanted to live in the country but you live in the city now, create a collage of images that contain all the qualities you want in your new home on the land you’d like to live.
- Remember Your Relationships - Include in your Vision Board the people you want to be with you, sharing in your experience. If you don’t know those people yet, put images and words of qualities you’d like to experience within relationship. EX: If you are single and want to create a home with a significant other that isn’t in your life yet, put images of couples enjoying themselves in the way you can only now dream of, into your collage.
- Create Some Affirmations – When you’ve made your VisionBoard, you want to make it real NOW, not in some future scenario. You have to bring it here. You do that by affirming the fact that it is true now. Using ” I AM” and ” I HAVE” statements help you to bring your future visions into present time. EX: I am living in my ideal home in the country. I have a rich and rewarding relationship with my lover.
- Placing - Now that you’ve made your VisionBoard and your affirmations, place them in a place you are going to see them daily. Use your affirmations in your conversations with yourself and others. Make it a part of your daily life and soon you will see that the vision you created is the dream you are living.
- Forget about “it” – After you’ve created it, you’ve got to kind of let it go and forget about it. Trust the process. Don’t work it so hard. Just have fun and notice the evidence around you that the Universe is bringing you exactly what you asked for.
Now as humans, we are famous for getting in our own way. If your dream has not happened, ask yourself if you really want it. If you do, ask yourself if you think you can have it. If you don’t, then perhaps make a vision board of creating more trust, or self esteem.
THE ONLY REASON A DREAM WONT HAPPEN IS BECAUSE SOME PART OF YOU THINKS IT WONT! If you create a negative imprint in your creating, you are just adding another weight on your fishing line, brother. If you believe “this stuff doesn’t work” you will build on that nightmare, sister. Just be a kid again and dwell in the realm of imagination.
All this can be backed by physics. Everything is made up on waves and particles. “It” is a wave of energy until it is observed. When “it” is observed, by the viewer’s perception, “it” becomes a particle, which turns into a ” thing.” And this dear reader, is how a vision becomes a dream and the dream becomes reality.
As Albert Einstein quoted,” Imagination is more powerful than knowledge.” We’ll leave that for another discussion. For now, let it be food for thought.
Happy visioning!!
Holly Shantara
The Soul Coach
