Creating Your Dream Life - If You Don't Do Anything, You Won't Get Anywhere

Life is not a passive activity, and hoping for the best isn't going to be enough. First, make sure that you are paying attention to the opportunities that already exist around you. If you have tunnel vision or wear blinders, you miss the activities going on around you. Focus, while remaining open.

If you could focus all your energies on what is important to your life, your goals, your mission, you could move beyond the anger, the pain, the hate and rise above it all creating a life of abundance, hence - your dream life.

Something you can do immediately is listen to the conversations taking place around you. Everyday you have two choices:

1) Inertia: the tendency of bodies at rest to stay at rest
2) Momentum: the tendency of bodies in motion to remain in motion.

Which one will you need to create your ideal life? If you're having a tough time getting in gear, enlist the help of a friend or a life coach. When you have someone cheering you on, sometimes kicking you off the couch or out of a slump, it's impossible to ignore. Think of how wonderful it would be to have your own personal cheerleader pushing you, motivating you! Each step you take to make things happen in your life is a big one. What if you heard applause every time you took a step?

Make your network work for you. Call at least one person every day. Before you decide that you're too busy, this only needs to take five minutes or so. If you're pressed for time, simply tell the other party at the beginning of the call you only have a few minutes. Share stories and listen. Contacting someone every day will create the habit of telling your story, asking for what you want, connecting with others and keep up your momentum. As this gets easier for you, increase the number of contacts you make each day. You never know who knows someone, who knows someone: you get the idea.

Be aware of your communications with others and yourself. Talk the talk of a winner. You will be more positive to be around and you'll attract others.

When having an unpleasant experience, look for your own responsibility. Questions to consider:

- Did you take something personally?
- Are you trying to interpret something that doesn't need interpreting?
- Could you have responded in a different way?
- Were you acting in a manner consistent with serving your greater purpose?
- What, if anything, could you do to avoid a similar experience in the future?

There are always opportunities for you to analyze your behaviors. You are unable to control others, their reactions and their inactions. You don't control situations, but you don't have to let situations control you either. You control your reaction to people and your environment. You can choose to see a situation or experience any way you wish.

Knowing you can only control your actions and reactions, when someone else does something, is it your business? Sure, their behavior can have an impact on you, it will have whatever impact you decide.

If you knew you only had one day left of your life, at your current age, in your current situation, what would you do with that last day? Live every day like it's the only one you have. Because truly, what more do you have than what you experience in this moment? Your attitude colors how you experience all your moments. Start living in the moment: you'll be amazed at how free you will feel.

Let's say one of your goals is to attract a loving relationship. Are you making an attempt to meet people? Engage in activities that you enjoy or find stimulating. Say hello to strangers. Meet people who like the things that you enjoy. Use creative visualization to create your perfect partner into being. Of course, Mr. or Ms. Right isn't going to materialize on your front doorstep, you'll have to do some work. You can't find them when you're overcome with loneliness, sitting on your couch, complaining into the phone to your friends, I'll never meet the ONE. Not unless he or she is dropping by random houses, knocking on doors, looking for you. And unless you're a character in a television series or movie, it's probably not going to happen like that.

Make a list of all the things you need to DO, actions you need to take, to have your ideal life. Include the date you will DO the action by. The rule is, you MUST do at least ONE thing EVERY day. Start creating your new dream life, now.

(Your list should be a long one! And you will check off one thing each day! This list can change, be added to, modified in ways to create your dream life.)

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