If there were no limitations or consequences, what would your perfect average day look like?
I learned an interesting visualization technique after watching a video taped speech from the uber internet marketer, Frank Kern. He shared what worked for him to help him realize his ideal future. His words were so impactful to me, that it encouraged me to do exactly as he did.
The key is every day – you could do this stuff every day and not die or get sick of it. Many people visualize their future in order to help it come true. However, in order to fully realize that future, it’s important that you don’t just visualize the physical things like that fancy car you want to drive, but also how driving it makes you feel, what you’re thinking about as you’re driving it, what music you listen to while you’re driving, who’s in the car with you, etc. The more detailed you can get, the more your mind’s eye can begin to piece it all together and realize how possible it is.
I’ve been visualizing my perfect, average day in great detail, from waking up in the morning to going to bed at night. I’ve been writing it all down in detail on a sketch pad about 36″ x 18″. I never expected to write as much as I have so far. In fact, I’ve been working on it for weeks and am only up to 12:30pm. It’s a very surprisingly difficult process, actually.
Photo 1 – Here’s a photo of me working on it while I was in my backyard on my picnic table. This is after having just started, so I haven’t filled up that much space.
Photo 2 – A close up – it reads, “in the future…a day in the life of davidhwalker, if i had to live this day over and over again, what day would make me happy”:
Photo 3 – I moved inside and wrote quite a bit more. I just kept going and going…was an immense amount of fun, actually! :
Note: what you see at the bottom is the word “SLEEP.” Before I had started, I had assumed that I would be able to do the entire visualize from “AWAKE” to sleep on that one page. In fact, at the point that I’ve finished writing in this photo, I’m only up to 10:30am. Didn’t realize how detailed I was going to get, but the more detailed I got, the more real it became, and the more my mind’s eye was beginning to accurately take a grasp of what my future can be.
Photo 3: This is where I am currently–page 2 (I was able to fill up the entire first page before going to page 2). I’m a bit stuck and find myself writing a new sentence every few days. But at this time I’ve having a hard time visualizing what my perfect, average day will be like after 12:30pm. I know what it will begin to look like around 6pm, but for some reason, I’m having a hard time filling that gap.
Here’s a list of some of the questions that guided me along the way. Remember, the key is don’t think about stuff—think about experience. our experiences help shape our identity.
- Where would you live?
- What would your house look like?
- What time would you wake up?
- What would I do in the morning? Think about? First words of the day?
- what would i have for breakfast
- what does the mundane stuff look like – what you’re thinking about, etc
- what would you spend the first half of your day doing
- what would you have for lunch
- who eat with
- what would your friends be like
- what would you do for personal fulfillment
- what life purpose would i strive for
- what would your business be
- what time would you start work
- what would actually do at work?
- what is your relationship like
- what would you do for family time
- what would you have for dinner
- where would you eat
- who would you eat with
- what would you talk about
- what would you do at night
- who would you do it with
- what would your thoughts be as you went to sleep
- etc
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love it.
will be thinking of mine…
Rawsome!! I want to see what you wrote! I do something similar on my site, called “telling my future”. ( http://jessicamullenslifestream.com/xx/tag/telling-my-future/ )
I’m working on a more image-based version of the post. It really does take a lot of time to do all the visualization! But it is so so worth it! And if I include things I want to be disciplined about, like exercise or diet, then I’m more likely to follow through, especially since I make my visualization public on my site.
Your blog is awesome. It makes me feel really lucky to know you. Seriously. Sorry for being corny, but this is truly inspirational.
glad you guys enjoyed this! Jessica, I’m a little hesitant to make it public, yet…but it may actually be the smartest move. Time will tell. I’ll keep the inspiration coming if you all keep reading! =)
David,
Thank you. I have been working on dreaming my perfect future. This is a great exercise, I look forward to hearing how it changes your life. I may get started myself.
thx Kimber! will do a follow-up post when i have more progress. thx for checking out my blog