One of the greatest strategies for success is to act as if you are already where you want to be.
This means thinking like, talking like, dressing like, acting like, and feeling like the person who has already achieved your goal. Acting as if sends powerful commands to your subconscious mind to find creative ways to achieve your goals. It programs the reticular activating system (RAS) in your brain to start noticing anything that will help you succeed, and it sends strong messages to the universe that this end goal is something you really want.
Start Acting As If
What do you want to do? Where do you want to be? Do you want to be a professional athlete? Do you want to be the best teacher in your school, district, or state? Do you want to be the president of your company? Do you want to be a millionaire? Whatever it is you want to be, study people who are already where you want to be and emulate what they do.
In my workshops we do an exercise called ‘The Millionaire Cocktail Party’. Everyone stands up and socializes with the other participants as if they were all at an actual cocktail party. However, everyone must Act As If they have already achieved all of their financial goals in life. They are to Act As If they already have everything they want in life – their dream house, their vacation home, their dream car, their dream career – as well as if they have achieved any personal, professional, or philanthropic goals that are important to them.
Everyone suddenly becomes more animated, alive, enthusiastic, and outgoing. People who seemed shy a few minutes earlier reach out and assertively introduce themselves to others. The energy and volume level of the room soars. People excitedly tell each other about their achievements, invite each other to their vacation homes in Hawaii, and the Bahamas, and discusss their recent safaris in Africa and their philanthropic missions to Third World Countries.
After about five minutes, I stop the exercise and ask people to share how they are feeling. People report feeling excited, passionate, positive, supportive, generous, happy, self-confident, and content.
I then ask them to look at the fact that their inner feelings – both emotional and physiological – were different, even though in reality their outer circumstances were still the same. They had not actually become millionaires in the material world, but they had begun to feel like millionaires simply by Acting As If they were.
BE, DO, AND HAVE EVERYTHING YOU WANT… STARTING NOW
You can begin right now to act as if you have already achieved any goal you desire, and that outer experience of Acting As If will create the inner experience – the millionaire mind-set, as it were – that will take you to the actual manifestation of that experience.
Once you choose what it is you want to be, do, or have, all you have to do is start acting as if you already are being, doing, or having it. How would you act if you already were a straight-A student, top salesperson, highly paid consultant, rich entrepreneur, world-class athlete, best-selling author, internationally acclaimed artist, sought-after speaker, or celebrated actor or musician? How would you think, talk, act, carry yourself, dress, treat other people, handle money, eat, live, travel, and so forth?
Once you have a crystal clear and vivid picture of that, start being it – now!
Successful people exude self-confidence, ask for what they want, and say what they don’t want. They think anything is possible, take risks, and celebrate their successes. They save a portion of their income and share a portion with others. You can do all of those things now before you ever become rich and successful. These things don’t cost money, just intention. And as soon as you start acting as if, you will start drawing to you the very people and things that will help you achieve it in real life.
Remember, the proper order of things is to start now and be who you want to be, then do the actions that go along with being that person, and soon you will find that you easily have everything you want in life – health, wealth, and fulfilling relationships.
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