
Almost exactly a year ago, a friend gave me the book The Answer, and it assigns one exercise, which the author recommends you practice every day. The exercise is to imagine your dream life, and then take time every day to close your eyes, be silent, and then visualize your dream life like a movie in your head.
Sounds simple, but it’s harder than you think. In order to be able to visualize, in great detail, the movie of your life, you have to be exceedingly clear on the life you’re longing to live. Most of us struggle with this part. What do we wish to achieve? How do we want to feel? What do we want our lives to be about? What’s our calling, our purpose, and how can we express it in such a way that brings us peace, balance, and joy? Who are we at our authentic core?
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Remember that scene in Pretty Woman, when the dude with the gigantic smile is yelling to Julia Roberts, “What’s your dream?” He’s the voice I hear in my head whenever I think about how I want to craft my life.
His question is such a vital one, and yet, when I ask my Change Catalyst coaching clients this question, way too many of them stare at me blankly. Often, they’re far from living the life of their dreams. Many have actually achieved the dream they had earlier in life, only to realize that it doesn’t make them happy. So now what?

It came through me like a powerful wind. I looked down at my hands and noticed I was no longer in complete control. Certainly I was allowing it to happen. But the words were writing themselves. Whatever was coming out was now flowing through me, not from me. I felt that if I paused, this wave of inspiration would be gone forever. I raced to keep up with it.
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I unearthed something most incredible from an old journal today. An artifact from an existence that feels like lifetimes ago, when actually less than a year has passed. On October 6, 2008, I sat in a coffee shop during my lunch break at work and wrote the following in my journal: