Hello!!
Can you see your dreams? Like, really, really see them?
Can you feel them? Is there a cold breeze? Is it warm? Is there sun where you are? Are you sitting? Standing? Soft? Hard?
Can you smell them? What does it smell like in your dream life?
How does that car steering wheel actually feel, gripped in your hand.
What does it actually sound like when you walk around your dream house.
Do you even know what your dream house looks like?
I'm not saying you need to have a dream house or car, it could be fitness or anything, but they are just mine. The point is, can you actually see where you are trying to go.
Can you VISUALISE your dream with so much clarity and detail that you actually feel like you are there and that you belong there. For certain.
This is essential for giving us direction when chasing our dreams. Visualising brings those dreams even closer, brings opportunities to our laps. With time. And with Effort. You must visualise consistently for a long time, but also be working daily towards those dreams. Let's look at a couple case studies
ED MYLETT
I've mentioned Ed Mylett before. That guy^. He is one of the two people I respect and follow most on social. The other person is right underneath. Ed talks about seeing your goals, how you need to be so familiar with them, that when you get there, you're not even surprised. By visualising. By touching your dreams. We have to touch your dreams regularly to keep them relevant and in our minds
Visualising helps bring that belief- our brains gravitate to that which we are familiar with- have you noticed that?
Do you hang around the same types of people no matter which location you're in?
The same type of person you date?
How you seem to always eat the same food every time you go out?
That's the brain bringing what is familiar to us.
I'm not saying you have to start visualising yourself eating a duck salad instead of Pad Thai months before you go out to eat. But if we make our dreams more familiar and closer in our minds by consciously seeing them, feeling them, hearing them, experiencing them, your brain will begin to think it belongs there With enough time, it will begin to spot opportunities, conversations, people that you never noticed before and bring them in line for you.
For example, Ed and his wife would go to a real fancy hotel every 8 weeks or so if they had done well in business, stay the night, get all the extras, play golf etc. This made them feel like they belonged there. Every-time they went back, and reinforced the belief that it was coming for good.
When he was broke with no money, he would walk along the beach and stare up at his dream home and think, I'm going to live there. He bought that home for $30 Million in cash.
This sounds crazy but its got something to do with part of the brain called the Reticular Activating System (RAS). Ed also talks about this a lot. This awesome part of the brain is at the base, and can be described as a sort of switch or filter. It's job is to filter in relevant information to us and block out any irrelevant information.
It's why a mother can sleep with music playing nearby but awaken instantly if she hears a baby crying in the room next to hers. It's also why you sometimes hear random specific words from other peoples conversations. One of the best examples is cars. If you've bought a new car. Or you've created a meaningful relationship with someone with a particular car. Or even just learned the name of a car. Have you ever started seeing those cars everywhere you drive? Cars that you had not noticed before? Like you buy a blue Hyundai, and suddenly they are everywhere on the roads?
That's the RAS. The thing is it only works for things that we find important, identify with or focus intensely on. So it is different for everyone, everyone has different inputs being let into their awareness and others being excluded. An example of how my RAS picked up an opportunity for me is the day I discovered Macleay College (which I now attend).
It was three years ago, at a year 10 career day (I was 16). There were dozens and dozens of booths inside a sports hall, hundreds of people walking and chatting. At the time I was obsessed with money, and had been trying to learn about real estate, and how to create wealth and all those sorts of things. I was walking down the back end of the show probably trying not to get stood on, not really paying that much attention to the booths then BAM. Two words stood out to me. I remember it, it was weird, like they were in bold and the rest was faded. Those words were 'Real Estate'- it was a Real Estate + Marketing course offered by Macleay. I ended up doing the Entrepreneurship course, but for the next two years I knew that I wanted to go to Macleay.
So if you start focusing on the things you do want, it can be big or small. Your fitness, a specific project you're working on, a person you'd like to meet, a car, a house, a business, anything in you're life that you want. Begin to focus on it every day and work towards it every day and the opportunity will seemingly pop out of no where.
ANDY FRISELLA
I've mentioned Andy Frisella before. Here he is again, purely because he is the baddest motherf*cker out there and one of my two top most respected people on social to be following. He often talks about visualising as well. He has a physical vision board where he places pictures of the things he is working towards- e.g. cars, houses, jets. He tells a story of the scene he played inside his head over 10 years ago when he was broke, $60,000 USD in debt, and back to sleeping on his dad's cough. He had no reason to believe it, but he did.
He would visualise every night before he slept: getting out of a white Lamborghini in front of a private jet. He would walk up the stairs to the jet, running his hand along the chrome handrail. Inside the jet, he would see every single stitching, every colour of the seats, the carpet, the roof. The feeling when he sat in the seat.
Every.
Single.
Thing.
For years he did that while working as hard as he could to obtain it. And now, he does drives those Lamborghini's and flies those jets whenever he likes. All purposeful envisioning and focused work.
So how can we start visualising and focusing on our dreams?
A few ways. These are the two most prominent ones, and the two that I use myself.
You can use a vision board- an actual board or book or wall where you stick up physical photos of all the things you want to do, achieve and experiences. Those photos and pictures can also be made by you. DRAW your dream house. DRAW your dream girl, guy, car or what you want in your relationship. DRAW your dream body.
You can visualise- actually sit down in a quiet place and spend 5-10 minutes seeing your dream in your mind. Walking through your dream house. Getting into your dream car. Kissing your dream person at your wedding. Going skydiving. Giving back to the homeless. ANYTHING. But make it as clear and real as possible, with as many details as possible. Do it consistently and it will become easier over time, I've definitely experienced that. You can talk to yourself while you visualise, affirming that you will get those goals.
Personally, I do a mixture of both.
With the vision board, I have photos and printouts of cars, houses, places, all over the walls of my room so that as soon as I walk in there, and when I am at my desk, I'm constantly surrounded by the things I want. All my wallpapers on my phone and laptop are also things I desire and visualise owning and doing- houses, cars, New York, being on stage. So everywhere I look almost, the things I want are there.
I also visualise. Every morning, for 5 to 10 minutes I sit down at my desk, close my eyes, and begin visualising. There are a few scenes I go through. I visualise my dream house that I have drawn and sketched and made adjustments to. I literally envision walking into the main entrance, the floor, the stairs to the right going to the second floor. There's a creek inside the house running through the floor with little bridges. On the roof there is a barbecue and relaxing area. Directly in front of me there are ceiling to floor windows behind a marble kitchen. Outside, there is a long pool, deckchairs, a bar and an amazing view of the ocean. If I turn around, I can see out the huge wooden double doors onto the Ferrari 812 Superfast I just got out of, painted in Rosso Fuoco. The front garden area is massive, a huge roman peristyle type set up, with the driveway coming down both sides to meet in a U at the front door.
That's just a little bit of detail but I visualise walking through the house, the gardens, what designs I can add to the house, playing with my kids, driving my car to the underground garage. The actual cars that are going to be in the garage. EVERYTHING. I just bought two small model Ferrari's- an 812 and a LaFerrari to keep on my desk as a reminder.
I also visualise moving to New York with my best friend- landing on the plane and walking out into that first New York air and sun. I visualise being on stage in front of thousands of people.
So that's me done. Now it's time for you to really start seeing your dream, and chasing it.
Start small, find something, and see it. Then take action, make a step towards making it a reality.
Thanks for reading :)
Until next time, keep moving forward.
Misha, N.Y.A
Something Small
Why do we do it?
Living a lie
Dried up inside
Sucked out and locked up and trapped in their minds
Bound by the times
Judgement and vibes
Chained in a way they can never describe
Death of their passion, hope and their drive
That's not alive
Why do we hide
Trapped by the vine's society prescribes
Drinking a cocktail, spiked with their lies.
Why do we do it?
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