Remember Your Future Self

In previous posts, we’ve written extensively about remembering your future self and the details surrounding visualization.

Today - we are going to go super granular and specific on this topic in order to provide a workable checklist of steps that will bring visualization and law of attraction down to earth as a practical routine you can follow. It really boils down to two major strategies- craft your impossible vision, and then run that movie on repeat!

Craft Your Impossible and Unrealistic Vision

1). Remember your ideal future, and freeze frame a particularly evocative scene and/or specific moment. Accepting a prize, going on a date, writing a big check for a new house or fancy car, crossing the finish line, starting a new job, finishing a project, spending time with family, visiting a beautiful place… any and all of these could be part of your ideal vision.

2). Make it sensory and emotional in order to feel real. Layer in as many fun details as you can think of. Don’t get caught up in how you will achieve the vision - just focus on what you will feel in that particular slice of the future. You will need to conjure up some new feelings to go with your new vision. Spend time dramatically expanding your range of positive feelings so that they can be a vessel of your expanded and overflowing success. Let your imagination run wild and make your future vision “too good to be true”. The point of this step is to be “totally and seriously unrealistic”. If you do not feel absolutely absurd and impossible about what you are imagining - then you are just making a plan to continue on your current trajectory.

Use Brief, Focused Repetitions

3). Once you have leveled up your feelings and vision from the future, run that movie on repeat! It should not feel like a chore because you have made it so fun and exciting. Practice visualizing your future scene in 5-15 second segments, and then repeat that movie at least 20-30 times per session. Stay focused on simple key details. Simplicity and accuracy help to sharpen your image.

4). Perform visualization sessions regularly to build mental momentum. Crossing each milestone accelerates your trajectory. Two or three sessions a week can be enough to begin re-wiring your mind and leading you to new attitudes and actions.

5). Intensify your visualization sessions before big events or goal milestones to further prime your mindset. These “refreshes” prime the neural circuits for optimal performance. Again, be sure to focus on the feeling and outcome, and be less concerned with all the myriad details surrounding the “how”. The whole process should feel natural, exciting and fun. Be flexible if details and plans don’t follow exactly how you envisioned. Trust that your “unrealistic” plans are on the way to becoming quite real, often faster than you can even imagine.