Want to play a game? Here’s one. Before you get out of bed every morning, spend a little time running a mental movie of yourself going through the coming day. Picture yourself feeling alive, aware, appreciative and calm, doing your routines, the things you’d planned, meeting the unexpected. Consider the game a challenge. Consider it another episode of living in life’s magic.
Know what happens? If you take time actually to play that movie – let’s call it “My Best Self” – every day, you lose the habit of being whoever it is you’ve been practicing being up ‘til now.
Picture yourself easily going with the flow, taking whatever comes along in stride, feeling great, feeling capable, expecting that everything’s going your way, and what doesn’t is okay, and may even turn out to be funny or to reveal a better direction to go.
Add in whatever traits and moods you want. Picture yourself getting great ideas and putting them to work. Imagine you’re full of energy, feeling healthier than you have in a long time. Imagine yourself grabbing the kinds of foods that you’ve been promising yourself you’d eat—and finding them delicious. Imagine going for a walk on your lunch break, or stopping by the gym on your way home, finding time to watch the sunrise or the sunset or to wrestle with the dog.
Imagine being captivated by your partner, amused and patient with your kids, enjoying your coworkers, loving your friends, noticing all the good drivers on the road during your commute, feeling wondrously grateful just to be alive.
See yourself wearing such a great smile that everyone wonders what you’ve been up to.
Want to supercharge the movie? Don’t get up until you actually feel the feelings that you’re imagining your “Best Self” is feeling. Do it every day.
Get inspired. Fire and wire your brain a whole new way. See how powerful you truly are.
I double dog dare you.
Warmly,
Susan
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