141 Imagine

This one is quite simple yet works.
When you want something you cannot easily get right away, all you have to do is imagine having it.
No, no, not in the “imagination-will-get-you-it” way (although that works more often than you think!)
What you do is imagine you have it now.
Imagine it under every circumstance. When you are at home, at work, at play.
With friends, alone.
On your way to somewhere, coming back from somewhere.
All the time. In every setting. Everywhere.
At most it takes a year to either burn-in or burn-out that desire.
Then you are sure!
I did this for a ‘mansion’ I was positive I wanted.
I imagined I was living in a mansion. All the time.
When I turned into the driveway of my townhouse I imagined I was turning into the driveway of my mansion.
When I went in the front door, it was the front door of the mansion. And so on.

Within one year I realized that I did NOT really want a mansion.
What a complete surprise!
When I finally had enough money to build a nice home, I built… not a mansion!
And am I ever glad that I did that imagine thing.

By doing this I also found I don’t want:

A private Chef
An airplane
Lots of homes all over the world
A large yacht

The same goes for anything you ‘want’ and cannot easily get right away.
And what an easy way to see if you really do want it!
The smaller the item the less time it typically takes to burn-in or burn-out that desire.

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These are related:

# 10 Progress It – 11 Feedback – 12 Change – 14 Eliminating Triggers

16 Follow Up – 19 Expectations – 20 The ‘Gift’ of Knowledge – 28 Getting What I Want!

30 Ever-changing Relationships – 37 Or Its Equivalent – 38 Carrier Wave – 41 Elephants

43 Desire – 44 After – 58 Needs – 74 Dictating Your Miracle – 78 Process – 79 Truth Time