Your vision of where or who you want to be is the greatest asset you have.
–Paul Arden

While I love the above statement, it has been my personal experience that using your discipline to take action on what you are envisioning is where the power to transform your life truly lies.  Let me give you an example.

I visualize two-three different types of ideal workdays.  I am not the type who likes to do the same thing day after day.  I enjoy lots of variety.  But there are specific qualities and activities I value.  The phrase, “in an easy and relaxed manner,” is one of my favorite mantras.  (I know it might sound a-typical for a Type A to want anything to be easy and relaxed, but remember, we are generally control freaks as well, so it’s our own definition of easy and relaxed that counts! – but that’s another post – on with this show.)

So, no matter what I’m doing, I like to be un-rushed, unhurried, and not have too many things to do, people to see, or places to go, at one time.  I like my writing days to be at home, starting on the back porch where I can hear and watch the birds.   I like my meeting days to flow from appointment to appointment with plenty of time in between to get to where I’m going and have lunch when the time comes.  I like my in-office days to flow in an organized manner from task to task, which have, of course, been prioritized in advance.

If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you know that I am a planner – a strategic planner.  You may also know that I have recently combined my planning sessions with intuitive guidance and have implemented the concept of segment intending.

Now here is where the rubber meets the road.  Are you ready?

Once you have visualized your ideal day, and you’ve planned out, at least one-half hour in advance, how you want your day to flow, you may find that you have to exercise your self-discipline in order to realize your creation.

What so many people do, and what I used to do, is this:  Plan your day, (and if you’re really good, you’ve planned it out the night before), but before you start, you decide to just check your e-mail first.  You find a few fires to put out, but after 30 minutes or so, you’re ready to start the day you planned.  Then the phone rings.  Someone you work with has a problem and would like your assistance, or just your input.  This person is a friend and you want to help, but it takes another half-hour to an hour.

By now you’re a couple of hours behind and you realize you are going to have to re-work your original plan.  So you spend another 30 minutes deciding what can be put off to tomorrow and, as usual, your top-20 payoffs, those long-term, delayed gratification benefits are the first to go.  But at least you have a new workable plan and you don’t feel overwhelmed.

Now it’s time for lunch.  Or, you decide to skip lunch and get caught up, but feel resentful toward yourself for having to do so.

At the end of the day, you feel frustrated and wonder where the time went.

Here’s what you need to know: You are in charge of your time.  You are the creator of your life experience.  You get to choose how you spend each moment.

Decide now that you want to be in control.  Just say to yourself, or better yet, write down the words, “I want to know in each moment what I really want.  I want to spend my time in the manner I have preset.  I want to create my life to my own specifications by focusing on each segment of time.”

From this point forward, you will be more aware of when you are getting ready to take a misstep, such as looking at your e-mail.  Then you’ll say to yourself, “No.  This is not what I want to do right now.  I want to stick with my plan.”

One of the most common expressions I hear every day in business settings is, “I just go with the flow.”  That can be a good thing if “the flow” is taking you where you want to be.  But if it’s not, going with the flow can send you barreling down a section of the river you never intended, and over the falls!

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