How are you today?
Did you enjoy any particular April fools foolishness?
I read a post on Facebook by my friend Rebecca. A couple of beautiful lines about waking up and seeing the sunrise over a beach on Maui. I thought Rebecca and Andrew were in Hawaii. It seemed so real I wanted to be there too …
But alas, I was an April fool! (However, it made me smile and I love to smile)
So after a nod to the Inspiration of April 1st, here’s the next piece of Moving Forward Writing:
Write On – The Personal Script.
Your mind works to bring you what you focus on (good or bad).
I know this is an over-simplification, but think scary and you’ll get scary – think happy and you’ll get happy. Or similarly, if you don’t know what you want, your mind won’t be looking for it but if you know what you’re looking for your mind will be alert to finding it.
For example, have you ever noticed that if you are thinking about buying a red car you begin to see red cars? Or if it’s time for your kids to go to school you begin to see (and check) the schools that might be appropriate? (Certainly your kids do when they start thinking about going to college).
Personal Script is writing that helps you focus your mind.
What do you want in your life? How do you focus on it? How do you remember it? Or do you spend more time worrying about the things you don’t have?
Personal Script writing helps you remember what you want by writing them down.
You not only get it out where you senses can engage it, you put it in a place where you can review and develop it. A Personal Script will lead your thinking and self-talk in the direction you want to go, and overwrite the self-talk that is holding you back.
Like a movie script guides an actor’s performance, Personal Script guides your performance. Except you are the writer, director and actor. You develop the big picture plot and the flow of each scene, and always have the opportunity to change it (rewrite) as you go along.
The first step is to write down (script) what you want.
What you want may be running through your head (you’ve thought about it and just not written it down) Or maybe it’s something that’s come to you (and been underlined) in your Personal Journey.
When you write it down in your Personal Script you make it more concrete AND something you can focus on. If it’s something you truly want, you keep reviewing it, if not you change it or can drop it all together. But you are doing so more consciously and not allowing yourself to just forget.
The second step is to review it at least once a day.
Reviewing your Personal Script daily engages your mind. The first step is to get it out where you can see it, the next step is to get it to where you take action on it.
Repetition is a key step to getting your thoughts internalized and incorporated into your actions.
As you review something it begins to be remembered. Consciously and subconsciously. Try it. Write down one step towards something you want and review it once a day, everyday. How long does it take you to remember it and take that step?
Memorization yes, but it’s memorization of what you want in your life, not what you have to remember for a test.
Make review and repetition easier by limiting yourself to one page – with two sections. Usually one for what you want in your personal life, and one for what you want in your professional life. But it could also be one for what you want for yourself and one for what you would like to do for others, etc.
Remember to look at the one page everyday (sometimes this is harder than it sounds). Read each thought to yourself; see it (visualize it happening), and feel how good it feels (smile to recognize the imagined accomplishment).
In tomorrows post we’ll review ways of formatting your Personal Script to engage positive self-talk and make it easier to internalize, imagine your success and activate your script.
Your Personal Script will give you a place to:
Collect and focus on what you want in your life.
Develop and review how to get it.
Focus on or change your self-talk.
Continually direct and refocus your short term actions towards your long term objectives and goals.
And visualize they’ve been achieved.
A Personal Script will help you move forward – one step at a time. And it takes time. Overnight success is a fantasy, but step by step it happens.
Do you think about the things you want in life?
Do you get them?
Do you positively visualize having them?
Please share your stories and spread the word.
Have Funandwriteon,
Jim
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