style="font-size:15px;"> Listen today to the people around you as they discuss where they live, their commute, where they go. Create conversations around where people would like to live, how far they’d like to be from work and where they might vacation. Observe those people actively working towards doing something about it, compared to the people that just complain about it. Reflect on your conversations and observations.
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Day 7
You’ve spent some time looking at who you will be in your vision, what you will be doing and where you will be. Now we will create how you’re going to get there. When creating the how, write from the perspective that you already have what you need. Too often we look elsewhere because we don’t believe we have what we need. We don’t have the knowledge, the resources, the money, etc. Today, write as though those things were already available, and this is how your vision came to be.
I thought I needed . . .
It was very important having . . .
What made all the difference was . . .
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Activity
Listen to the people around you today, when they want to do something new, create something, try something. Listen for what stops them immediately. Key words or wording could include, “but,” “I don’t know,” “it's always been that way,” “that never changes.” etc. Reflect on what you’ve heard.
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Day 8
It's been a week of creating a vision. We’ve discussed things like: who you will be, what you see for yourself in the future and where you see the people around you. We’ve also begun writing in the past tense, like it’s already happened. I’d like to acknowledge you for getting this far. Some people may have started strong and stopped a couple of days in, others may have gotten through each day, but didn’t have time to really complete the activities. What today is about is a fundamental lesson in life. One that has guided everyone at one point or another. It’s also something that will happen every now and again as it is very important. Today we look at failure.
Failure is something we all go through at many times in our lives, but as we get older, the fear of failing grows more and more. Until we somehow create for ourselves that failure is no longer an option, so we would rather not even begin.
So let's be clear, you will fail often throughout this journal.
Failing is a good thing.
Actually, its a great thing and will be necessary before you can design the life you want. If you assume that doing exactly what you’re doing now will somehow get you to a different life, let's burst that bubble now. Doing exactly what you’re doing now, will get you exactly what you have right now. Doing something different will get you something different. This is fundamentally simple, yet extraordinarily hard to do.
Therefore today is not about creating anything, we will leave that to tomorrow. Today, review your previous entries, add to them if you need to. Start over maybe, take a day or two to redo something you felt you might have missed. Or, refine what you’ve been writing about all week, polish the important points and expand on areas you wish you had time to before. Take a break to look at what you’ve accomplished so far and take a moment to acknowledge that you’ve done some good work. Remember that the start of every journey begins with a few steps and you’ve just taken the first few towards an incredible new future of your own design.
Day 9
Taking everything from the beginning of this journal so far, we will create a personal vision to encompass all aspects of what your life will look like in 5 years. Like everything else, we will be writing this from a position in the future, as though this has already happened. Take the time you need to really dig into everything you created so far. Most of your writing has been functional, using the writing prompts, and sectional, writing from each day. Today, bring it all together and create a future that you can see, touch,
