How to create an amazing life for yourself
I wrote earlier that "Reality only exists in your mind. Therefore, your mind creates your reality."
Here's a good metaphor to illustrate what I meant: Your life is a play, and you are the main actor, the director, the writer and the producer!
Once you realize that this metaphor is true, you will gain TREMENDOUS power over YOUR life.
But until you do, you will not feel fulfilled. You'll go through life thinking (and actually believing honestly) that someone else is writing your lines, someone else is directing your life, someone else is producing your life, etc.
Realize that other people in your life (family, friends, boss, coworkers, etc.) are only SECONDARY actors. YOU are the main actor, and they will act according to your lead.
In other words, you teach other people how to treat you. Always.
If you act like a victim, everybody you meet will feel "compelled" (subconsciously, without being able to explain why) to treat you like one. Thus, it will seem to you like as if they are "oppressing" you. Yet, you created their roles by thinking and acting like a victim!
If you think like a poor person, life will bring you all the evidence that will SUPPORT your decision to be poor. Poor-thinking people will come into your life and ensure that you stay a poor person. This becomes a vicious circle.
Anthony Robbins' life is a good example of someone who realized the above, that he is indeed the writer, director, producer and main actor in the movie called "My Life."
One day, his life was at an all-time low, so he went to the beach, sat down, and began to write -- hectically -- all the things he wanted to have and be. He refused to compromise. He wrote down absolutely EVERYTHING that he wanted to have and be in life.
If tomorrow, all of Anthony Robbins' books and tapes and courses were erased from the face of the Earth, you STILL would have greatly benefited from Tony Robbins if you do EXACTLY what he did: buy a notepad and start writing out ALL THE THINGS YOU WANT IN YOUR LIFE.
To write a diary is good, but it's about the past. Even more important is to write a "future" diary: that is, write the life that WILL become true. And make sure you write out all the feelings you WOULD feel in every moment of this future life.
The reason why people don't have an amazing life is that their notebook (or the main script of their lives) is filled with lines which they wrote unconsciously, without much thought or skill.
Also, they did not learn how to act, direct or produce their own life-movie.
Yes, everybody's life IS a movie. It can be a very boring movie, or a very exciting one.
Note, however, that "boring" and "exciting" are arbitrary judgments. What's exciting to you might be very boring to another person, and vice versa.
Before he became famous, Albert Einstein's life might have seemed very boring to most people. Yet, to him, it was precisely the kind of life he wanted to have.
The only question is, "Are YOU living the life of your dream?"
If not, it is not too late to do so.
All you have to do is buy a $1.00 notepad (at any $1 store) and start writing out the amazing and awesome life that you WANT to have. Be detailed and clear and write as much as you want.
Remember that life is a movie, and that ALL movies started out with a screenwriter sitting down and imagining a great story, and then writing it out (complete with dialogues and scene descriptions).
Next, show your script to others and get their feedback. And then, it will be up to you to audition for the main role, hire other supportive actors, learn directorial skills, and become the producer of your life-movie.
Here's a good metaphor to illustrate what I meant: Your life is a play, and you are the main actor, the director, the writer and the producer!
Once you realize that this metaphor is true, you will gain TREMENDOUS power over YOUR life.
But until you do, you will not feel fulfilled. You'll go through life thinking (and actually believing honestly) that someone else is writing your lines, someone else is directing your life, someone else is producing your life, etc.
Realize that other people in your life (family, friends, boss, coworkers, etc.) are only SECONDARY actors. YOU are the main actor, and they will act according to your lead.
In other words, you teach other people how to treat you. Always.
If you act like a victim, everybody you meet will feel "compelled" (subconsciously, without being able to explain why) to treat you like one. Thus, it will seem to you like as if they are "oppressing" you. Yet, you created their roles by thinking and acting like a victim!
If you think like a poor person, life will bring you all the evidence that will SUPPORT your decision to be poor. Poor-thinking people will come into your life and ensure that you stay a poor person. This becomes a vicious circle.
Anthony Robbins' life is a good example of someone who realized the above, that he is indeed the writer, director, producer and main actor in the movie called "My Life."
One day, his life was at an all-time low, so he went to the beach, sat down, and began to write -- hectically -- all the things he wanted to have and be. He refused to compromise. He wrote down absolutely EVERYTHING that he wanted to have and be in life.
If tomorrow, all of Anthony Robbins' books and tapes and courses were erased from the face of the Earth, you STILL would have greatly benefited from Tony Robbins if you do EXACTLY what he did: buy a notepad and start writing out ALL THE THINGS YOU WANT IN YOUR LIFE.
To write a diary is good, but it's about the past. Even more important is to write a "future" diary: that is, write the life that WILL become true. And make sure you write out all the feelings you WOULD feel in every moment of this future life.
The reason why people don't have an amazing life is that their notebook (or the main script of their lives) is filled with lines which they wrote unconsciously, without much thought or skill.
Also, they did not learn how to act, direct or produce their own life-movie.
Yes, everybody's life IS a movie. It can be a very boring movie, or a very exciting one.
Note, however, that "boring" and "exciting" are arbitrary judgments. What's exciting to you might be very boring to another person, and vice versa.
Before he became famous, Albert Einstein's life might have seemed very boring to most people. Yet, to him, it was precisely the kind of life he wanted to have.
The only question is, "Are YOU living the life of your dream?"
If not, it is not too late to do so.
All you have to do is buy a $1.00 notepad (at any $1 store) and start writing out the amazing and awesome life that you WANT to have. Be detailed and clear and write as much as you want.
Remember that life is a movie, and that ALL movies started out with a screenwriter sitting down and imagining a great story, and then writing it out (complete with dialogues and scene descriptions).
Next, show your script to others and get their feedback. And then, it will be up to you to audition for the main role, hire other supportive actors, learn directorial skills, and become the producer of your life-movie.
posted by Super Peter at 2:40 PM
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