Week 3

Dear, Friends:

Welcome to another week with me!  I want to talk about the imagination for a moment.  How is it that we can literally think anything into being?

Let's try something simple.

I want you to close your eyes for 10 seconds and imagine a pig flying.  Okay, go!

Could you do it?  Maybe you imagined a pig with wings above its shoulders or a pig with a cape, flying like Superman.  Maybe you heard oinking in the wind or saw the flash of pink as it flew by.  

Our minds are powerful beyond belief.  If you can create the impossible in your mind then what's stopping you from getting what you want?  I had to ask myself this recently.  Everything is created twice: once in your mind and once in reality and actively imagining reaching these things that I want keeps them in the realm of POSSIBLE.  This video says it all:


1. Change 30 lives

What have you done for me lately? 
(Send 4 encouraging letters to strangers)

-It felt good to do this, check out one of the letters that I wrote:

Weekly Action Plan (WAP)!

Create profession resume for someone I just met.

-One of my great talents is resume crafting and I really understand how the system works.  I spoke with a woman from New Jersey this past week that lost her job.  She's a single mom with a young child and her house was recently robbed.  I told her I'd like to help her however possible so I agreed to craft a new professional resume for her. 

 

2. Gain 10 lbs muscle 

What have you done for me lately?

-Ate breakfast 3/5 times and worked out 5/7 times. 
WAP!

Eat breakfast everyday this week.

Lift 4 days this week.

3. Save an extra $2,000

What have you done for me lately?

-I started using mint.com.  It's an awesome app that integrates with your bank accounts and credit cards to analyze your financial health for you.  The app helped me to discover something I already knew; I'm paying through the nose as a smoker.  I've been a smoker for three years. 
The average 20-a-day smoker spends $100,000 or more in his or her lifetime on cigarettes.  What do we do with that money?  We use it systematically to congest our lungs with cancerous tars, progressively to clutter up and poison our blood vessels.  Each day we are increasingly starving every muscle and organ of our bodies of oxygen, so that each day we become more lethargic.  We sentence ourselves to a lifetime of filth, bad breath, stained teeth, burnt clothes, filthy ashtrays, and the foul smell of stale tobacco.  It is a lifetime of slavery. 

This just will not do.  

WAP!

Listen to the entire ebook, The Easyway to Stop Smoking by
Allen Carr.

4. Develop and present business plan to five investors

What have you done for me lately?

-Only worked on this for 30 minutes total, however I have made some good progress thus far.  I'm about five pages into my business plan and will start more extensive market research this week.

WAP!

Spend 20 minutes everyday this week dedicated to market research.

5. Spend 200 hours learning Spanish

What have you done for me lately?

-I met accomplish what I wanted to this past week; I had my first 1-hour Spanish hour lesson with my Nulengua.com tutor in Guatemala.  To admit, it was a bit awkward at first, but she was awesome and I remembered a lot more than I thought I would from prior learning.  Excited for the next lesson!  I was also able to get down on three Nulu.com articles which really help with reading and comprehension.  Here's a screen shot from my lesson:

WAP!

Complete Spanish homework from tutor & schedule this month's lessons.  Minimum 5 articles read on Nulu.com.  

6. Read 12 books

What have you done for me lately?

I read 83 pages this past week which was only three nights before bed.  In order to stay on track I'll need to step my words up.

WAP!

Finish "Connected" this week.

I challenge you Pikachu! 
Set aside a whopping 5 minutes everyday this week and imagine what it would feel like to do something you've always wanted to do or finished something you've always wanted to finish, or say something to someone you never said or something.  Paint a picture of what it would look like,  what it would sound like, and how it might feel.  You'll be better for it.  I promise.

Words to ponder 
"--Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

-Through the Looking Glass (chapter 5).

Next post: Week 4

                 

-MLove