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An Example of Receiving Your Vision

Several years ago I created a vision of writing books as part of my joyful implementation of my life purpose. I had already started writing Conversations With Nature at that point, but nothing was yet published.

Well, when it rains, it pours, especially when you are open to receiving your vision in whatever ways it shows up.

A friend of mine has started his own publishing house, Open Heart Publishing, and one of his first projects is publishing an anthology of short stories along the theme of “An Honest Lie: Encouraging the Delinquency of Your Inner Child.” He asked me if I would consider contributing a story to the anthology and I relished the idea. I liked the idea so much, I started to write.

As another friend of mine says, “the secret to writing, is writing”. It’s also apparently part of the secret to getting published. I wrote a delightful short story called “The Life Boat”. You’ll get to hear more about it and read excerpts later.

The important part of this life story right now is the value of staying joyfully inspired and motivated toward your visions and being open to receiving opportunities in whatever form they come. It may not look like the original picture you painted for yourself, but it could be just as good or better in terms of the feelings, experience and even more opportunities you get from taking the leap and following up on what’s presented.

I know I’m glad I started writing and actually submitted something (none of the other people the publisher specifically invited to the anthology submitted anything). Now I get to play even more in the arena of writer, published author, and speaker. Even more exploration of this vision of author I’ve created for myself. What fun!

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Stretch Your Vision Rubberband Into Your Future

I like to think that when you create an inspiring vision it’s like you are stretching a rubberband into your future. By placing your inspired, passionate vision in time you are stretching the rubberband from where you are now to where you desire to be.

As long as you keep your attention on the “where you desire to be” end of the rubberband you will naturally and easily snap yourself into that vision. However, if you start to feel doubt or in any other way lessen your attention and good vibration from where you desire to be, you are putting slack in your rubberband and essentially keeping yourself where you are.

To help you stretch your vision rubberband into your future, and keep it tight with good vibrations, I’d like to introduce you to a beautiful NLP guided visualization called Strategic Visioning.

You can download your audio version here:

http://www.catalize.com/catalize_strategic_visioning.mp3

(right click the link and select Save As to save it to your hard drive and play it from there)

In this guided visualization you step into all the details of your vision – seeing it, hearing it, and feeling it. Then you step out of the vision, but keep a picture of you in it so you have a snapshot of that moment when you arrived and you can easily recall all the good feelings associated with your vision being realized.

Then you stretch your vision rubberband by floating up into the air, above the stream of time, and drop your energized picture into the future date when you wish your vision to be fulfilled. And now you can relax and allow all the events and opportunities and people to flow into your life with perfect timing, knowing that your vision is complete.

I love this NLP guided visualization because you can use it over and over again, each time adding even more feeling and detail to your experience to keep strengthening the good vibrations of your vision rubberband.

Try it, and let me know how it works for you!

p.s. you may desire to use the Catalize Wheel of Life to help you create visions and intentions for every area of your life and then use the Strategic Visioning guided visualization for each area. Sign up here for the Catalize monthly newsletter to get your copy of the Wheel of Life … or just follow the instructions on the audio recording for more information on how to create your inspired vision.

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Visualize With Help From Your Future Self

December is a wonderful time to visualize! While our society is focused on giving and receiving during the holidays you can leverage that energy to focus on receiving your most inspired visions for your next year … and beyond.

The darker days, the magic of the holidays, and the quietude of this season all support you as you go within to discover your heart’s desire and your higher self’s greatest wish for you.

To help you receive your inspired vision, I am gifting you the Catalize Future Self Journey guided visualization.

Catalize Future Self Journey
(right click the link and select Save As to save it to your hard drive and play it from there)

This 15 minute visualization will help you to connect with your most inspired, positive Future Self and through that connection you will discover your inspired vision now. You can listen to this visualization many times – each time you may get a new insight into your vision.

Oh, and if you would like your own copy of the visioning questions you ask your Future Self in this journey, here they are:

What is your highest vision for me?
What must I become to empower this vision?
What must be released?
What must be embraced?
Is there any other information that is needed at this moment?
What metaphor or symbol or phrase best represents the focus of my vision now?

Many thanks to the Center for Spiritual Living for the input of the questions used in the science of mind Visioning process.

Enjoy your journey and let me know what you are inspired to now!

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Creative Thinking To Realize Your Visions

In my last newsletter I mentioned that my primary focus this quarter is on my Business and Career intentions:

I enjoy and deliver PROSPERITY
in all my businesses!
I transform millions of lives with my coaching, workshop/retreats, and inspirational products.

My vision of what that intention looks like is not yet where I am now … that’s why it’s a vision, right? In my vision, I’m financially sustaining my desired lifestyle by doing these businesses that I love: coaching, workshop/retreats, and selling inspirational products on the Internet. I am easily and relaxingly balancing my time between these three different approaches – from the very introverted product side, to the receptive and deep coaching work, to the extroverted and playful workshops and retreats. I am gardening regularly and enjoying time in nature to nourish me. I am attracting and connecting with the absolutely perfect people as my customers and as supporters of my life’s work. I am generating plenty of money to pay the bills for my current lifestyle and to enable expansion into travel retreats.

Can you see it? I sure can, and it feels really good when I connect with all the juicy details of my vision.

So I’m working full time on these three businesses, but they are not yet financially sustaining my desired lifestyle. As with most things money related, it’s easy to start thinking how and why questions to try to “fix it” and arrive at my desired end state more quickly. How can I make more money more quickly? Why isn’t this working yet? And then the dreaded “what if” questions pop up too … “what if I don’t make enough money to pay my bills?” This is where creative thinking helps me stay aligned with the good feelings of my vision, remain toward-motivated, and find even more opportunities that bring my vision closer to reality.

One of my favorite creative thoughts I had on this subject just a couple weeks ago: “I’m living the life of a millionaire.” I may not have the million dollars in my bank account, but I’m doing what I love to do every day. I am choosing my own delightful schedule, I’m doing work that feels purposeful and joyful to me – work that I want to do, not that I have to do, and I feel abundant in my home environment. Heck, I may be living an even better life than some millionaires – I’ve got great health (thanks to last quarter’s focus), a loving and supportive relationship, and wonderful connections with my friends and family. Even my garden is beginning to flourish. I truly am experiencing prosperity!

Now all those thoughts of how and why and the frustrations that I’ve not yet arrived melt away because I’m energized and focused on all the good feelings of my vision, I’m grateful for all the ways I’m already able to manifest my vision, and I’m open to whatever opportunities present themselves to further bring my vision into reality.

I know this creative thinking works because I’ve used it for many changes I’ve brought into my life. For example, when I was still a management consultant, working long hours at Microsoft and taking my coach training courses, I used creative thinking to start becoming a coach. Before I was “officially” coaching individuals in traditional, paid coach settings, I was interpreting most of my interactions with my co-workers as opportunities to provide good coaching. As I acted more and more like the coach I wanted to be, some of my co-workers started to have personal coaching conversations with me. By the time I left my role as a management consultant I think I was acting more like a coach to the team I worked with than a consultant. I had outgrown that job, that location and new opportunities opened up for me to step fully into the role I wanted to play. By then the “leap” into my vision wasn’t scary or far-fetched, it was simply the next obvious step.

So now it’s your turn to exercise your creativity and see the ways you can be who you want to be, where you are now.

If you want help getting creative, I’m only a phone call away – or post your comment here and see what this supportive community says. I am here to support you and your inspired visions.

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