Volume 4, Issue 3

	Dreams to Reality: Creating the Life You Want

LIVING BY DESIGN NEWSLETTER
by Leslie Karen Sann, MA, LCPC
V4, #5
March 8, 2004

IN THIS ISSUE

TRY HARDER -- NOT
Powerful People Make Things Easy (Part 3)

(This article is a continuation in a series about our personal power to create the life we want)

Okay, check this out. Find something within your reach right now that is easily picked up.

NOTICE it with your eyes.

Now THINK the thought, “I’m going to pick that up.”

Now IMAGINE yourself picking the item up.

FEEL the emotions you experience when you successfully achieve something you set out to do.

Great.

Now TRY and pick it up.

If the item is in your hand right now you didn’t try, so set it down and TRY and pick it up.

I want you to really try HARD. Try HARDER!

Ahhh, if you picked it up you failed at trying, even if you tried harder, so set it back down.

Okay. Now pick it up.

If you have the item in your hand you DID it! You picked it up. You took an action and created a result.

Thinking about doing something does not make it happen. Imagining doing something doesn’t do it either. Feeling like doing it doesn’t work. And trying - well - TRY and pick it up.

Action is what produces results. We can pretend we are taking action by telling ourselves we tried, or we’re thinking about it, or imagining our success, but as the Nike ad says - “DOING Does It!”

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QUOTES:

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
~ Jeremy Kitson ~

“This summer has seen the completion of the 1860's farmhouse project. It has taken us three years to renovate the structure but we now have moved across the driveway. Dreams do come true with enough determination, patience, and hard work. Next year we tackle the barn.”
~ Penny Newkirk ~

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PRACTICALLY SPEAKING:

Action is preceded by thought, imagining, and emotion. Unless we use those to fuel action, we are merely ‘trying’ not doing.
Doing includes choosing a vision, imagining a result, fueling the vision with feeling, and taking a tangible, measurable action step.

WONDER QUESTIONS:

How do your thoughts, feelings, imaginings enhance or distract from your ability to take action?
What are you doing/thinking/imagining when you are in your power?

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