What adventure is knocking at your door?

What has been calling you to bring into reality?  What have you been putting off that is time to feed, nurture, and give space for?  What is ready to be birthed through you?  Or maybe, you have been on your path but feeling stuck and you don’t feel the fire you once felt?  Hopefully, this article will help you get to the next step of your journey.

January is such a great symbolic time representing a new beginning, new possibility, and new potential.  It’s that time of year… at least in the north when the pace slows down so you have time to do some dreaming and visioning, to take a breath and assess where you are, where you want to go and make a plan to make it happen.  It’s a time to make some adjustments if you’ve been walking on your path but are feeling down… what do you need to do to rekindle the spark?

Here are a few steps to help you get started on your journey or reconnected to your calling:

Step 1    Vision into the future.

What does your amazing future self do five years from now?  One year from now?  

• You can make it a very elaborate experience and prepare a ritual before going into your visioning or it can be very simple and just take a few deep breaths and set your intention to go on this journey to meet you awesome future self.  No matter what you choose to do what I recommend is to not only connect with your self, living an extraordinary life but merge into her so you can feel how it feels to live that life and to BE in that life.  You want to bring that feeling back in your present.

Step 2     Remember to feel 

As often as possible, reconnect with the feelings of your fulfilled future self, bring them into your present.  By doing that you are letting the future create your present… isn't it an interesting paradox: The future creates the present AND the present creates the future.  It's both!

Step 3     Break it down into steps

Write down your vision and break it down into daily steps… you could totally keep connecting with your awesome future self in order to receive the steps from her.  Or you could be really practical and do some  reverse engineering with your vision:
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Step 4    Use a tool that will help you stay focus.  

This year, I am trying a focus planner… so far it’s very helpful keeping me on track.  You could also create a group of people where you meet every other week or every month and you keep each other accountable.  I personally use a focus planner and it is so helpful to me to stay focus.  I have a tendency to lose focus and go from one thing to the other.  I want this year to be different… I want to try a new way of being: Laser Focused!  We'll see how it goes!  

Step 5     Create your own Vision Board

It will energetically support your creative process of bringing into your reality the life you want to live, the life that your future self is already living!  Here's one of mine from some years ago.   If you are not sure how to make a vision board, do a search online, it's easy.  It can also be very fun to gather with friends or your family and enjoy a couple hours of dreaming, laughing, and creating!

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Step 6     Keep breathing

Do not forget to keep breathing along the way, be aware of the parts of you that want to keep you small, in fear, and stay where you are.  Talk to these parts of you, redirect your attention to the empowered parts, towards your future self who is already living that wonderful life!

If you are curious about why using your future self as a partner is powerful, look into my online course.  It doesn’t involve painting and I explain the principles behind this method.  ​​

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