To live a "charmed life", put your Visualization on “Autopilot”
Do you know of people who seem to live a “charmed” life? It
seems that everything goes right for them in every area of life; of the Major
8? I’ve got good news for you, because you too can live such a life! After you have
achieved “autopilot” status in one of the Major 8 (or one area of that
particular Major 8; say financial for instance); you can continue to improve in
that particular Major 8 and/or do the same in other areas. Soon, all is well in
every area of your life. Let me explain.
Let’s say that you need to improve in the Major 8 category
of finances. Now when I mean to “improve” this area, it could be many things
such as improving what needs to be done on your part to manage your money that
you have, or it could be to better allow increase into your life. And or course
each of these two areas alone could be segmented with areas to improve upon.
The good news is when you work and achieve results in that one area; it usually
becomes a permanent habit so you continually see permanent (and positive) results.
So, then this becomes “automatic” where you don’t actually have to think about
it for it to happen so the results continually occur (you expect them to occur)
and others see this happening to you and for you and they think now that you
are the one leading a “charmed” life. But you first consciously took action to
make this happen and now it is on “autopilot”; pretty cool huh?
Have you ever driven someone else’s car and the shift lever
was in a different place other than where you car’s shift lever is positioned?
If your shift lever is on the console and your friend’s shift lever is on the steering
column, how many times did you find yourself reaching for the console? You were
in the “habit” of using and reaching for your shift lever in your own car. Recently
I remember that I wanted to stop at the bank before going to work. I found
myself missing the turn toward the bank as if the car had a mind of its own and
was continuing to my usual daily route to my workplace; as if it were on its
own course, like it was on autopilot! Have you ever been on your way somewhere
and instead of continuing to your desired destination found that your car was
headed toward the location that you usually go, on a regular basis, such as
work or home? I will now explain how you can get this same “habitual” action
happening in an area of your life; an area within one of the Major 8, so that
it is on “autopilot”.
I will demonstrate how I did this, by this conscious action
on my part, to improve my sales and handling financial transactions at my place
of work. This is a small building action to the bigger financial category of
the Major 8. I took these mental steps every day before going to work to create
these lasting positive results. Now, it is as if it is on “autopilot” so I don’t
do this every day, and I don’t think about it so much but the results continue.
I am careful not to boast and also review it sometimes but it is getting
results now so I can move on and improve in other areas.
Here’s what I did. You may have a similar situation that you
can apply the principle to, and also I hope you’ll get something from learning
about the actual process of what I did. My goal as a sales person would be of
course to make sales, so naturally I would want more money in my cash drawer at
the day’s end. However, I also wanted the drawer to be “right on” to reconcile
at the end of the shift exactly with the money transactions from the day. With
both in mind, every morning before work, I would visualize my cash drawer I
would be given at the beginning of my shift. I would “see” the section with
pennies and hold my hand over them, palm down, and state: “Bless these pennies,
and may they increase” as I raised my hand (to allow the “pile” of pennies to rise).
I would move to the left and do the same with the nickels, dimes, quarters and
the rolls of quarters, nickels and pennies saying: “Bless these pennies, and
may they increase and may my cash drawer be correct at the day’s end”. Then I
would do the same with the dollars, and get a great “feeling” of success as I
would see the dollars overflow from my cash drawer, then the fives, the tens,
the twenties and then best of all, I would see the fifties and hundreds
literally overflow to the point where I had trouble closing my till. I saw
myself asking a manager to take some of the money so as I could close my
drawer! And, finally I would see myself finishing the day with my “numbers”
being “right on” after reconciling my drawer.
Having practiced this morning ritual, I no longer stressed
about this, it became automatic, I made sales consistently and effortlessly,
and my cash drawer was usually is “right on” to the penny! Now that I achieved
success in that area, I moved on to another area. People saw that I made sales
effortlessly, and thought that, at least in this area, that I lived a charmed
life. Success came easily to me. It’s true they did not know my secret; now you
do!
Select an area of the Major 8, or an area within a category
of the Major 8, and do something similar to improve. Do so in one area, where
it becomes “automatic”, and then move on to another area. When you have
achieved “autopilot” with most areas of the Major 8, people will think that you
are leading a charmed life; because, you are!
Make it a great day!
