Greetings friends. Top o’ the morning to you!!! 6:14 am…thunderstorm outside. Coffee brewing…it’s a great day!
Recently a fellow musician was asking me about how I have produced DVDs, CDs, booked tours and basically been a productive musician.
He himself is an awesome guitarist, so musical talent and skill wasn’t the issue at all. However, he found himself running from gig to gig hurriedly, and was curious about lessening the “craziness” in his life and accomplishing more meaningful things musically, financially and spiritually .
He flat out asked me “What do you spend your days doing? What does a day in the life of Adam look like?”
Great question, and I hope you enjoy the answer.
I feel as though through my 20’s and into my 30’s I had a tricky time navigating “making a living” much the way he did. Not just money-wise, but making for myself a life of quality, fulfillment, and happiness in general.
I very much hope that anyone reading this (particularly younger musicians starting a career) will get the most usable, most important piece of info they’ll ever get…right here.
I say this not out of arrogance or self importance, but out of respect for the information itself, which I did not create! I have been fortunate over the past few years to have learned “sacred information” taught by wise men for generations.
Ready, set, here goes. This will take some work.
1. Determine your life’s main objective.
2 Write down 5 to 10 goals you’d like to achieve.
3. Determine the ONE of the 5 goal that is the most important, the one will have the most impact on your life.
4. Fully visualize its completion with absolutely no concern of how to do it. Know unfailingly that once you see it in your minds eye, it is achieved.
(The sky is the limit by the way.)
“What? That’s it?” you ask. Yes – but in this tiny answer runs a depth too vast to explain in a short post!
To visualize something not yet here, to use the imagination faculty is planting the seed of great accomplishment in your life.
Many will tell you to “be realistic” and look what’s around you. Frankly, if you are looking at what’s around you, you are seeing the “past”, the end of the life cycle of creation.
It takes enormous courage to look into yourself and set a goal. Size is not the issue – you can visualize a penny or a million dollars for example. Visualizing them costs nothing except your time and effort – same energy required!
When you decide clearly what your goal is, your daily activities then support the goal, the vision, the objective. You become a 24/7/365 problem solving, goal achievement machine.
Any creation requires a plan. I love to use mundane, everyday examples. Take for example a Thanksgiving meal, and let’s walk through the visualization and manifestation.
The visualization comes first. Let’s say you want the following on the table by a given time: turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, rolls, gravy, vegetables, and something to drink – let’s say wine for grown ups and juice for kids.
Then – all actions lead to the goal, but please meditate deeply on the fact that the end vision came first, and the actions come after the vision of completion. These actions may include making a list, shopping, chopping, buying utensils, inviting people over via phone & internet, defrosting items, and planning a coordinated cooking schedule so everything is served hot at the same time.
Do you see that the full visualization of the end result informs the actions? Seeing the end makes you into a mechanism to achieve the end objective and pulls you to the vision, every time, without fail. We do this constantly in everyday life. It’s a natural law – like gravity.
Every single time I travel by plane, I think of the Wright Brothers, who did the same thing. It took incredible vision before anyone had flown, for 2 guys to see this possibility and not give up until it was reality.
The common person can say “planes, yeah whatever” because they only have the strength to look at what is – which is already the past. To say “yeah whatever” to planes is easy, lazy and what most common people do.
To look into your own life, with imagination and create and do what the Wright Brothers did is the mark of greatness.
To then see this in action, you will realize – it’s not about the goal itself. To see the Divine Laws in action and bring your visions to you is the most fulfilling thing in life…breathtaking. Through achievement, you grow spiritually and see with new eyes.
So to answer my buddy’s question “what do you spend your day doing?”, I review goals, determine the most important, and then get to work on finishing them.
Even if you work a regular job, have kids, or go to school – you can still set a goal and choose the most important one, and visualize it’s completion.
Homework Assignment…don’t read it, do it!!!
1. Determine your life’s main objective.
2 Write down 5 to 10 goals you’d like to achieve.
3. Determine the ONE of the 5 goal that is the most important, the one will have the most impact on your life.
4. Fully visualize its completion with absolutely no concern of how to do it. Know unfailingly that once you see it in your minds eye, it is achieved.
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Seeing that you already doing what you suppose to do and not doing what you are not suppose to do is a good start for unlimiting youself. Re-thinking leads to doubt and doubt leads to limitations…
Wrong George… sorry. If you are afraid to “re-think” then, perhaps, what you are doing is not really what you want in the first place. If you re-think your objectives, perhaps with your newfound knowledge and experience you will have found a better or shorter way to reach your path to fulfillment. Re-thinking dos not necessarily mean todding out your original plan. It may be just an affirmation process whereby you make your vision even stronger, thus giving you more energy to pursue your dreams.
Interesting comments guys. George, I am chewing on what you said, trying to get the meaning…
What comes to mind in reading both comments is that at the top of each peak that we climb, we see an even higher peak. Goals can change, and it is also ok to drop certain goals. What the highest aspiration was last year may be different next year. With each new level of achievement we have a new vantage point from which we desire new things.
The important point is this…set the end goal in mind, and you will naturally work backwards to the action steps that need to be taken. Onlly think about “the plan” when you know the destination!