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158 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Slight</strong> <strong>Edge</strong><br />
STEP ONE: Write It Down<br />
<strong>The</strong> most critical skill of achieving success in any area whatsoever, from<br />
sports to high finance, radiant health to fulfilling relationships, is the skill of<br />
envisioning. Envisioning something simply means having the ability to create<br />
a vivid picture of something that hasn’t factually happened yet, and make that<br />
picture so vivid that it feels real.<br />
Envisioning doesn’t happen simply by creating a picture in your mind.<br />
If your dreams and aspirations are happening in your mind only, that’s not<br />
envisioning, that’s wishful thinking. It’s like saying, “I’ll give it a try”—which as<br />
Yoda pointed out, really doesn’t cut it. (“Do or do not—there is no try.”)<br />
Envisioning means quite literally making something up out of thin air—and<br />
making it real. By definition, you can’t do that within the confines of your skull.<br />
It needs to become physical; it needs to involve your senses. In other words, you<br />
need to write it down. Making pictures of it, which people sometimes call a “dream<br />
board,” is even better. Speaking it out loud is the most powerful of all. But at the<br />
very least, write it down. <strong>The</strong> moment you do, it has started to become real.<br />
What do you dream about? Pick a dream you have, any dream: your dream<br />
house, your dream car, dream vacation, dream job, dream marriage, dream<br />
career. Pick a dream that you’d really love to have come true. Write it on the first<br />
line below. <strong>The</strong>n pick another, and another, until you have five dreams.<br />
If you’re hesitating, know this: these dreams may be as huge or as small as<br />
you like; neither is “better” or more or less worthy to make real.<br />
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Good. Now, let’s have you add two descriptors that will make your dream<br />
more concrete: what and when.<br />
First, go back to each dream and add whatever wording you need to make<br />
each dream absolutely specific. For example, if you had a dream to “be financially<br />
free,” what does that mean, specifically? How much money do you need in the<br />
bank or investments, or coming in as annual income, to achieve what you call<br />
“financial freedom”? If there are any other conditions that need to be met (such<br />
as “being completely debt-free”), add those in, too.
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