Visualize Your Lifestyle
As an entrepreneur, you have the ability to create any lifestyle you want. Are you living that life now? Most people just start doing and don’t think about where they want to go.
Do you know what your dream day looks like in perfect detail?
Have you spent time really thinking about it?
If you could choose to spend your time any way you wish, how would it be spent?
Here is an exercise that can put you in the space where you can allow your dream lifestyle to come to you.
Exercise: Lifestyle Visualization
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LISTEN to this VISUALIZATION exercise now.
Exercise: Define the Lifestyle of Your Dreams
Now think about your perfect day.
- Would you like everyday to be like that?
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- What would you like to have the same?
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- What would you like to be different?
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I want you to think about how you can incorporate elements of this dream day into your daily life.
- How does this impact your current lifestyle?
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- What changes do you need to make in your business to make your daily life accommodate your dream lifestyle?
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- Write down your dream lifestyle?
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In doing these exercises I realized that my perfect day was waking up and taking care of my kids, sending them off to school, then coming back home and working on something I was passionate about that helped others. I wanted something to stimulate my brain that would enable me to transform the lives of the people I cared about.
I also wanted to be free to pick my kids up from school and spend afternoons and evenings with them and my husband. I wanted relaxed weekends with the family. I wanted the time and money to travel for vacations. I wanted to live in a friendly environment with loving supportive neighbors who had children for my kids to play with. I want my kids getting the best education available and I want them to learn to pursue their dreams. I want not to think about money. I want to make a difference in the world and use my unique abilities as best I can. And this is what I want for others.
While this was my dream lifestyle, this is not where I was 18 months ago. I owned a retail store that was open 6 days a week from 10am to 6pm. And this was reduced hours. Before that we had been open 7 days a week, from 10am to 8pm.
Because of this schedule, I needed a live-in childcare to help care for my children (who were not school age). My husband and I tag-teamed the remaining childcare hours, were balancing that with work at the store. While one was home with the kids, the other was working.
Weekends away were not existent. Actually, we went a year without a weekend together as a family.
Exhaustion and stress ruled our lives. We were miserable.
I’d say that’s a pretty obvious difference between where we were and where we wanted to be. Needless to say, the store had to go.
Not all situations are as obvious as that. Though, as obvious as it was, it still took us nearly a year to close out that business and get back on track to fulfilling our life vision.
What is your vision? Please share it with me below. I’d love to hear what your dreams are.
About Debra Zimmer
