In January, we looked at the power of creating a clear vision for a version of life we love. In February, we worked with self-love. 

This month, we’re considering ways in which you and I use our authority to shape and experience our daily lives. 

I know this blog is long, but I ask you for a little grace. 🙂 I’ve purposely made it in depth to make sure that you fully understand everything there is to know here.

Because I’m going to introduce an idea—a tool that’s often undervalued and completely under-leveraged by most people. 

This tool acts as a booster rocket to your visioning process.  

And it’s commonly known as DECISION.

Decision really is a magic mental move, as Bob Proctor says. It’s a powerful way to focus our minds on what we DO want more of in our lives.

Over the past couple of months, we’ve crafted a vision for something we’d love to accomplish or become this year. 

And, as we hold that vision next to the current facts of our lives, we may notice that these starkly different representations obviously don’t match. 

There’s a gap—a difference between our current results and the results we’d love to be living.

Most commonly, we look at our current life and say, “THIS is reality.” And then we look at the life we envision and think, “Maybe in my next life….”

That’s because we typically aren’t taught how to make empowered decisions. 

A decision, in this context, could be as simple as, “This desired outcome I’m imagining matters to me, and even if I have no clue how to bring it about, I’m doing this thing!”

Decision is how you build a bridge in your mind to the version of life you’d love to live. 

Before you can build a physical bridge—knowing what steps to take—you’ve got to build a mental or energetic bridge in your mind.

You do this first by “seeing” in your imagination the images of your desired success and feeling yourself already enjoying that imagined outcome.

There’s some fascinating research that shows how exercising this practice changes the neural connections in your brain so that your brain structure begins to resemble the brain of someone already living the imagined outcome. 

The thoughts fired and wired in a brain that matches the intended outcome will produce a new set of results.

And, just knowing this is not enough. So many dreams go unlived, because we have a tendency to let doubt take over and retreat before we even get going. 

Here’s where most of us get stopped in our tracks or give up on our dream:

#1 Believing that if we don’t know the pathway to our dream, then it’s not possible. 

In the absence of knowing HOW it’s all going to work out, we stall in our progress. We pre-decide that bringing our heart’s desire to life can’t happen if we don’t know how to bring it about.

#2 By approaching our dream with a preconceived notion of how it has to come about. 

We think our “better” version of life can only be achieved if it happens the way we believe it must, leaving no room for additional, more creative, and elegant ways to unfold.

In her book The Soul of Money, Lynne Twist writes about three myths that keep us from our greatness. 

One of those myths is, “That’s just the way it is,” meaning there’s a way things have always been done, and therefore no deviation is allowed. 

This paradigm stifles a growth mindset and is the antithesis of innovation. Plus, it’s simply not true.

To help you move past these tendencies, here are two tools I use that boost my “immunity” to getting swept away in figuring out HOW my vision has to come to fruition.

Tool #1: I ask myself, “In an infinite Universe, with infinite possibilities, could I believe there is at least one possibility where the process of building my dream feels easy and fun?”

Tool #2: I DECIDE who I’m going to be today by writing a “To BE” list. This consists of up to three qualities I’m deciding to embody. 

For example, “Today, I am being curious, patient with myself, and brave.” Sometimes these qualities change daily; other times, I work with the same ones until they become part of my natural way of being.

At first, when facing tough situations and “realities,” writing and embodying a “To BE” list may seem ineffectual, like it’s not affecting any positive change.

By deciding how you want to show up in your day and who you’re being, you don’t immediately change the facts of your life—but you do immediately change your relationship to those facts.

This is crucial because each of us is SO powerful. And for anything to change around us, by spiritual law, it must first change within us.

When you decide who you are going to be in your day—by writing and claiming a “To BE” list—you command the infinite creative energy of Life to show up for you in ways that align with the decision you’ve made.

To be clear, “trying” and “deciding” are not the same. 

Trying is out of harmony with affecting positive change. Deciding is definite and tells the subconscious mind, “The captain is turning the ship!”

Only after you commit to what you truly want will the inspired next steps appear in your awareness. 

The decision to have what you want—before you actually have it—will raise your dominant vibrational frequency to match the frequency where your answers live.

Now, when I say the word “frequency, you might find yourself zoning out or feeling like it’s a bit too abstract.

Yet, we work with frequency all the time. When watching television, for example, if you’re streaming the news but want to watch your favorite show, you change the channel to receive the content you truly want. 

The programming you most want to watch exists on a specific vibrational frequency—just like the ideas and opportunities that move you toward your dream.

So, now it’s time to look within and take inventory.

When you consider creating the blueprint for your best life, are you just “kicking the tires,” or have you decided to buy the car?

We command the universal creative intelligence with our decisions.

With that, I’ll leave you with one final thought:

“Don’t be surprised at how quickly the Universe will move with you once you’ve decided.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson