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time and funds list. Gather these themes in your mind and make one more list: list what keeps you from doing these things right now. Make a line down the center of that list too, and on the other side write at least one way you could overcome the obstacles you've listed. For example, if you wrote "not enough money" you might write on the other side "take out a loan, redo my budget" on the other side.

Now comes the fun part. If you have gotten this far in all the list making, you have already done 95% of the work required to create your passionate life. Your final task is to create a mission statement and a visual image of your passionate life. Included in your mission statement will be a sentence describing how you will know you've achieved reached your goal.

For example, if you wrote "down time and gardening" on your pleasures list, and "quit my day job" on your unlimited time and funds list, and on your characteristics list you wrote a "flair for writing," you may at this point realize that what you really would love to do is spend your time gardening and writing books about gardening. In that case, your mission statement and criteria for achievement might look something like this: "My mission is to create beautiful gardens and write books that teach others how to create them too. I will know I am achieving my mission when I am so busy writing and gardening and making money from the two that I no longer have any time left for my day job."

Keep your achievement statement in the active voice; for example, do not write "I'll know when I've achieved my mission," write instead "I'll know when I'm achieving my mission." You are not going to get to your passionate life and then discard it after all, you intend to live it to the fullest.

Finally, sit in a quiet place and breathe deeply for five minutes. If you soothing music helps you to sit still, put some calm music on. Once you are deeply relaxed, imagine your passionate life in vivid detail. How do you feel living it? What do you look like? How much money are you making from it? What do your surroundings look like? When you are feel done with this, write it out in as much detail as you can, fold it up, and tuck it away someplace special. Now wait for your passionate life to come to you. That's right, do nothing except wait and be willing to accept your new life when it begins to appear.

Does this sound crazy? It's not. I didn't make this up myself, but I have used it myself over and over again with great success. People have been writing about this method for years. It works because 1)it helps you set goals in tune with who you really are, and 2) it redirects your attention at a very deep, very unconscious level so that you begin to see that what you want is possible and then act on it. Some would say that 3) it opens you up to an abundant Universe and/or loving God who wants you to be exactly who she/he created you to be, and to have what she/he wants you to have.

You don't have to personally believe in a benevolent, abundant Universe in order for this to work. These things are true whether you choose to believe them or not. But don't be surprised if, having had your life transformed by radical trust and imagination, you begin to see the world very differently indeed.

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