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After two months, the daily exercise of re-writing my future vision has become a chore. However the idea was inspiring i.e. an AM ritual to help focus my day, so I'm not giving up on it just yet. Here's what I'm thinking:
Following Brian Tracy's advice (re-write your top 10 goals a new, every day, without looking at the previous days list), combined with Tony Robbins suggestion to: "Visualize a successful day", I'm going to record myself describing my day AS IF it already happened. I will add emotion (a la Dreams), and do this daily. At the end of the week, on Friday, I will re-write my future vision.
In essence, this will provide me with an interesting journal (audio):
Morning: My ideal (future) day
Afternoon: Updated present reality
Night: Final update of present reality
Following Brian Tracy's advice (re-write your top 10 goals a new, every day, without looking at the previous days list), combined with Tony Robbins suggestion to: "Visualize a successful day", I'm going to record myself describing my day AS IF it already happened. I will add emotion (a la Dreams), and do this daily. At the end of the week, on Friday, I will re-write my future vision.
In essence, this will provide me with an interesting journal (audio):
Morning: My ideal (future) day
Afternoon: Updated present reality
Night: Final update of present reality
August 2, 2011 at 2:10 |
avrum
avrum
"How to Make Your Dreams Come True" advises re-writing the Future and Current Realities once a week, not once a day.
August 2, 2011 at 15:18 |
Mark Forster
Mark Forster
Mark -
Recently, I thought you recommended re-typing/writing out the future reality once a day. Or am i missing something?
Recently, I thought you recommended re-typing/writing out the future reality once a day. Or am i missing something?
August 2, 2011 at 16:00 |
avrum
avrum
Only for the first week or so until it stabilizes.
August 2, 2011 at 16:44 |
Mark Forster
Mark Forster
Ah... didn't know that.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to trying out my hack... if for no other reason than to have an audio journal of what I would have liked to happen vs what actually happened.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to trying out my hack... if for no other reason than to have an audio journal of what I would have liked to happen vs what actually happened.
August 2, 2011 at 17:17 |
avrum
avrum
A tweak I'm using is to have 2 aspects to the future vision: as well as the outer goals and accomplishments I have a section for my desired inner experience - my inner quality of living. This seems to decouple reliance on outer events or occasions to create the experience I want - it's quite liberating.
August 5, 2011 at 16:33 |
michael
michael
avrum wrote:
<< Mark -
Recently, I thought you recommended re-typing/writing out the future reality once a day. Or am i missing something?>>
Mark wrote:
<< Only for the first week or so until it stabilizes. >>
I too had thought Mark's new recommendation was to rewrite the Vision daily. But reviewing my notes from forum threads "PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH MARK'S: HOW TO MAKE YOUR DREAMS..." and "WHAT TO EXPECT INITIALLY FROM 'DREAMS'," I see that Mark did not actually say that.
What he did recommend boils down to this:
- The What's Better list is most important. Write it daily. He adds to his throughout the day.
- Rewriting the Vision (FV and PR) is next important. He rewrites his first thing in the morning (which I must have taken to mean daily, though evidently he meant daily or weekly as needed).
- Dialog is least important and the most troublesome for some people. Do it when you have some time or feel the need.
I also remember reading that the FV was rewritten in the morning, with the PR rewritten in the evening, but I cannot find that particular post.
Mark, am I on target with that summary? Has your thinking changed on any of these points?
For me, the "Dreams" process continues to pay off. Though it proceeds slowly, it is the most effective system I have ever followed for time/action management or goal setting. It is also the best-feeling system in that if I stop doing it for a few days, I always end up really *wanting* to get back to it, which may the biggest secret to its success.
<< Mark -
Recently, I thought you recommended re-typing/writing out the future reality once a day. Or am i missing something?>>
Mark wrote:
<< Only for the first week or so until it stabilizes. >>
I too had thought Mark's new recommendation was to rewrite the Vision daily. But reviewing my notes from forum threads "PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH MARK'S: HOW TO MAKE YOUR DREAMS..." and "WHAT TO EXPECT INITIALLY FROM 'DREAMS'," I see that Mark did not actually say that.
What he did recommend boils down to this:
- The What's Better list is most important. Write it daily. He adds to his throughout the day.
- Rewriting the Vision (FV and PR) is next important. He rewrites his first thing in the morning (which I must have taken to mean daily, though evidently he meant daily or weekly as needed).
- Dialog is least important and the most troublesome for some people. Do it when you have some time or feel the need.
I also remember reading that the FV was rewritten in the morning, with the PR rewritten in the evening, but I cannot find that particular post.
Mark, am I on target with that summary? Has your thinking changed on any of these points?
For me, the "Dreams" process continues to pay off. Though it proceeds slowly, it is the most effective system I have ever followed for time/action management or goal setting. It is also the best-feeling system in that if I stop doing it for a few days, I always end up really *wanting* to get back to it, which may the biggest secret to its success.
August 8, 2011 at 18:10 |
Bernie
Bernie
<<FV was rewritten in the morning, with the PR rewritten in the evening>>
I know I do this. In the AM (and this is my tweak), I listen to an edited visualization exercise by Tony Robbins, and then audio record how I would like my day to end. I record my present reality twice: once at 2PM, the other before I go to sleep.
<<Has your thinking changed on any of these points>>
For a while, Mark was on a roll re: Dreams. Is the momentum/PULL still oriented towards updating DREAMS?
<<For me, the "Dreams" process continues to pay off. Though it proceeds slowly>>
Yup, for me as well. I still have great difficulty staying in PULL... or knowing if I'm in PULL. I have a hunch that my vision needs some tweaking. As well, I'm re-reading Dreams.
I know I do this. In the AM (and this is my tweak), I listen to an edited visualization exercise by Tony Robbins, and then audio record how I would like my day to end. I record my present reality twice: once at 2PM, the other before I go to sleep.
<<Has your thinking changed on any of these points>>
For a while, Mark was on a roll re: Dreams. Is the momentum/PULL still oriented towards updating DREAMS?
<<For me, the "Dreams" process continues to pay off. Though it proceeds slowly>>
Yup, for me as well. I still have great difficulty staying in PULL... or knowing if I'm in PULL. I have a hunch that my vision needs some tweaking. As well, I'm re-reading Dreams.
August 8, 2011 at 18:29 |
avrum
avrum
What if we updated our present reality twice:
http://www.realsimple.com/work-life/life-strategies/time-management/how-to-stop-procrastinating-00000000055280/page2.html