subject: How to Start Living Your Ultimate Life by:Rod Hairston [print this page] Can a missile hit its target if no one programs in a destination? Can it even be launched? No! The missile's guidance mechanism needs to know the destination. Think of yourself as that missile, and your Vision as the program that gets you to your destination. I know you're saying, "But, I've never created a Vision for myself." When you do not consciously create a Vision for yourself, your unconscious mind creates one for you. You are headed somewhere. In every category of your life, such as your career, your relationships, and your energy, you are following a plan designed by your unconscious mind.
Everyone is following a plan. This is so important to understand. If you do not deliberately create a Vision for each category of your life, your unconscious mind will do it for you. Maybe it will create the Vision from significant emotional events in your past, or maybe it will model your peer group, or the media, or your childhood beliefs or your parents behavior. If you don't know where you're going, just look around at your life because your unconscious mind has had to create a vision for each category of your life in order for you to function. This is so important to understand.
Are You Playing "Let's Make a Deal" with Your Life?
On the TV show "Let's Make a Deal," you can give up what you have now for the promise of whatever is behind "curtain number three." Sometimes it's a new car, but most times it's a herd of goats. That's how some people live their life. "Well, I'm going to make a deal with my health. We'll just see how it turns out," or "I'm going to make a deal with my relationship. It stinks right now, but maybe we'll stay together." Or "I'm going to make a deal with my finances. I'm broke and I'm doing the same old things, but...."
I can hear you saying, "What if I write down a Vision and have no idea how to make it happen? What if I write a vision down and I don't know how to get it done?" It's not about how. The Vision compels you to develop the belief and the faith and everything else that you need. It's about believing and then seeing. I have a friend and client who is the chairman of the most successful online mortgage company in the world. He borrowed five thousand dollars 14 years ago and has parlayed that to a fortune at least worth six hundred million. He's created an environment for over two thousand people that's so supportive and great that it was voted the twelfth best place to work for in Fortune magazine.
I asked him how he did it and he said, "Rod, you'll see it when you believe it, not before."
In order to believe anything you have to have something to believe in. The how will come. You'll be amazed at what you draw into your life. You have to start with the vision, though. You have to! And you have to make it big, you have to make it bright, you have to allow it to give energy to you and to your life. You can always change it, but it's time to wake up and realize you're in the game; you might as well play. It's time now to start living and stop letting your automatic patterns hold you back. It's time to expand and really, really design a world the way you want it to be. And hopefully your world will promote happiness, not just for you, but for everybody that has the opportunity to be around you.
Let your life be an example of achievement and growth. Following your Vision will also help you be an example of what is possible so that other people can see that life is about creating and adding to mankind, not taking away. Without a vision we're prone to adopt an attitude of scarcity, the thinking that says life is a win-lose game. If you win, I lose; if I win, you lose. A fulfilled life is not about that type of mentality at all. It is about the understanding that you create your life. ~Rod Hairston www.envision-u.com
About the author
Rod Hairston is one of the fastest growing authorities in America in the area of organizational performance, leadership development, and human potential. He is a dynamic and entertaining speaker with a proven ability to inspire and stimulate people to change. He is also the author of the highly acclaimed book, Are You Up For the Challenge? Six Steps to Lasting Change Starting Now, Not Someday. The book Are you up for the Challenge?
The book is based on the success of the international online coaching and integration program called the 45 Day Challenge. He has taken over 10,000 people from every English speaking nation successfully through the 45 Day Challenge.
Rod started his training career in the United States Military Naval Special Warfare. As a trainer of communications for the Elite Navy SEALs, he was intrigued with the people in Special Operations how they thought, acted, and dealt with stressful and dangerous situations. Working with the CIA, DEA, Navy Seals, and many other elite groups, his mission has been to bring the mindset of the best people in these units to the people fortunate enough to hear his message.
After 11 years of active military, Rod spent the next eight working with one of the most famous performance coaches in the world: Anthony Robbins. As Master Trainer, Rod has presented several major programs for Robbins, including "Discovery Camp", where Rod and his highly trained staff provided personal development sessions to 1,000 teenagers representing 4 different nations.
Rod is passionate about teaching and coaching individuals on the power of influencing and developing themselves and others. His passion continues to show world-wide in programs that support leaders, entrepreneurs, and sales professionals of all industries through the following ventures: Envision-U (www.envision-u.com), a dynamic coaching and training company that's internationally known for its 45-Day Challenge series, the best integration program for change in the market. Envision-U's training and coaching programs are powered by state-of-the-art online integration systems designed for the busy professional and work force. The National Association of Sales Professionals (www.NASP.com) is the largest association and resource for Sales Professionals. NASP believes that the sales professional is the life-blood of corporate America and is committed to supporting their success. Are You UP (www.areyouup.com) is a sales and influence competition designed to discover, showcase, and support talented sales professionals across the country. The Elite Coaching Community (www.elitecoachingcommunity.com) is a virtual community supporting leaders with programs for personal growth and development, connecting a limitless network of like-minded creators and achievers.
Rod is an avid believer that: "The life you have, you've created - with your thinking and emotions." One of his favorite sayings is: "What's hard to do in the beginning is easy to live with in the end." And he believes that a person should be most concerned with the habits they create for their life the habits of thinking, feeling and acting.
