Day 5: Imagine Your Future Positive Self

By on December 20, 2008 in Happiness, Living Your Purpose, Success

January 5 – 9, 2009
Week 1 : What Is Your Intent?

Imagine Your Future Positive Self

Recently I heard about a young man who dreamed about becoming a bull rider. The goal in the ring is to stay on the bull for eight seconds. The first six months, this guy worried constantly: “What if I get thrown right away? What if I get trampled?” And sure enough, he kept getting thrown before the eight seconds.

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2 Responses to Day 5: Imagine Your Future Positive Self

  1. Achievexcel January 4, 2009 at 5:31 am #

    Interesting, Thank you for your noble efforts in sharing your Wisdom and Inspiration

    I found this to be particularly interesting:-

    Quote from the post:-

    "Another reason this works is because, according to neuroscientists, we humans don

  2. caliban January 9, 2009 at 1:45 pm #

    thanks for the exercise. i have realized that i am quite often too negative about my outlook. i will attempt to try your method and imagine positively