Imagine yourself one year from today. Go ahead. If you don't know that date, check it right now. Project yourself one year from now. In fact, if you're on your computer, go to the calendar in the left hand corner of your monitor screen and double click it. Scroll the year to next year. Check it what day of the week it will be one year from now.

Now, imagine what you'll be doing. Where will you be living? What will you be doing at this very time of the day? Who will you be doing it with? Perhaps you'll be playing golf. Perhaps you'll be hiking your favorite trail. Maybe you'll be out by a gorgeous swimming pool. You might be in a cooler or warmer climate. Can you see yourself in your favorite vacation spot? Perhaps in Europe, the Caribbean or some South Pacific island. Could your even be on a humanitarian trip to South America or Africa?

Engage in this article by imagining that you are exactly in your most ideal surrounds, feeling absolutely amazing about your life. Go ahead. Let yourself feel it now. You can do it if you try. Who is in your life? Maybe someone you've not met but you've envisioned in your heart and mind. It might be the most amazing mate that you've long to connect with and finally did.

The great Charlie 'Tremendous' Jones said, ''Where you'll be five years from now will be determined by the books that you read and the people that you associate with."

I'm going to give you a bit of a shorter shot into your future and why you'll be there. Ready?

"Where you'll be one year from now will be determined by the talk you create or allow in your mind and the vision that you focus on."

I was reading an amazing book recently that the author asked, "If made the affirmation, 'I am a millionaire', one hundred times a day and KNEW that it would prove true ONE YEAR from now, would you start making that affirmation? Perhaps you've not discovered for yourself the power of affirmations. Maybe you don't believe in them yet.

Every 'effect' in life has a 'cause.' Where you'll be a year from now, what you'll be doing and who you'll be doing it with is an 'effect.' It is a result. An outcome.

What you choose to focus on and the language you allow to go on inside of your head every waking minute, is a cause. It is a very simple equation. The cause creates the effect. It is happening all around you, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year. You can't stop it. And even if you did stop it, the outcome would be the effect.

What you say to yourself is a cause that creates an effect. It is a verbalized thought that creates an emotion or feeling. That feeling will determine how you act.

Have you ever seen a man who knew that his grass was getting high, sit back and say, "I don't FEEL like going out in the hot sun and mowing the lawn?" He's either too tired. Not feeling well in his body or just, too lazy. The truth is, he told himself before he said it aloud, 'I don't think I'll go out and mow the grass today.' You see, his self talk didn't start when his wife asked him 'when' he was going to get his backside out there and mow the grass. It didn't happen when he answered. It was reinforced by his answer, but it was likely answered before then.

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