Do you feel like your dream life is way too far away? Like there’s no chance of it showing up anytime soon?

My husband and I are heading up to the mountains today for a mid-week getaway. We’re scoping out one of our favorite mountain towns and considering moving up there for the winter to enjoy the lifestyle of ski-season.

If someone had asked me a year ago how I could move up to a beautiful resort town for the winter I would have had no idea. It would have seemed too overwhelming to try to figure out the financial piece, where we’d live, work, etc. And this is where most people get stuck.

I’d venture to say that the reason your dreams feel impossible to you right now is because your focus is too broad. If we take the time to get really clear on exactly what it is we desire, whether material things, services, or even just emotions, then we can start to bring these into our lives right away. And I’m going to share three steps you can do today to start seeing positive change immediately.

The goal seems too broad and so instead of taking steps to make it happen, we end up in freak out and instead take no steps at all.

So here is how you can break down your grand desires of lifestyle, career, travel and more into bite sized actionable steps that you can start taking today and enjoy results immediately.

Step 1: Get clear and specific

When we see our dream life, career or that trip we’d love to take, it’s typically a full fledged vision. There’s a sense of peace and freedom, everything just falls into place. This type of visualizing is a perfect thing to do daily with a meditation to bring in more of what you desire. However, in terms of planning and making things happen, we need to get a little more specific.

What is it exactly in this ideal scenario that lights you up? Is it the freedom in your schedule? The fact that someone else is taking care of the busy work in your life (maybe your new assistant)? Or maybe you feel completely calm because you just had a massage and got your nails done?

Sit down and make a list of what would be normal for you in either your ideal life, business, or other dream you’re focusing on. This will give you specifics to start incorporating into your life now.

For me this list included pieces like:

– flexibility and control over my schedule
– more time with my husband
– regular manicures and pedicures
– the option to take random weekend (or even weekday) getaways
– having a clean comfortable home
– having a beautiful closet filled with clothing and accessories that made me feel good

Once I had specifics like these I could start incorporating them into my life. And this leads us to the next step…

Step 2: Lean In

When we try to go from our life as it is in this moment to exactly how we want it to be over night, it feels overwhelming instead of inspiring. That’s why I recommend ‘Leaning In’. Make little upgrades throughout your life that might cause you to stretch a little to the next level, but won’t feel stressful.

Going off of my list above I started getting my nails done more consistently. Considering it had been months since I’d had a manicure or pedicure, that was a really easy way for me to feel like I was upleveling without making a big investment.

Having a beautiful closet required me to schedule the time to clear out anything that I didn’t see myself wearing in my ideal lifestyle. Pieces that didn’t fit, were worn out or just didn’t feel particularly inspiring. The next piece was for me to add a shopping stipend to my budget. I hadn’t allowed myself to shop in a long time because of money fears. When I shifted my mindset on budgeting (see last week’s article ‘Say Goodbye to Your Budget’) I realized that owning beautiful things that made me feel good when I got dressed was important to me. And once I added it to my budget as a non-negotiable just like paying our utilities, the money started to show up.

Step 3: Enjoy the Process

Don’t insist that everything change now. Enjoying the process means enjoying every little upgrade that you make. It means that you take the time to savor every experience. To be filled with gratitude for what an abundant life you already have so that you can welcome more of this into your life.

If going out to beautiful dinners more often is part of your dream life, then act the part. Get dressed up, imagine that you already make the income you desire, order what sounds best off of the menu without concern about the price, tip the way you would if money wasn’t a concern. You have to start strengthening your mental muscles now. Start creating new belief systems that you are already living your dream life.

Life is happening now, so I strongly believe in enjoying every second of it rather than waiting for some distant perfect future.

And when you start to live this way, life enthusiastically meets you more than half way to support your experience. It’s as if life’s been patiently waiting for you to realize how blessed you are so that the real celebration of your existence could begin.

Since I’ve started living this way I’ve watched opportunity after opportunity present itself to me. And the more aware I am of these serendipities and the more gratitude I have for the guidance and support, the more they appear.

Life starts to feel more like play and less like work. Honestly, it’s just a lot of FUN 🙂

So don’t wait for tomorrow. Don’t wait for some shift in circumstances to change your life. Be the change that you wish to see. Follow the three steps I’ve listed above to start creating positive momentum in your life today and watch how the world unfolds before you.

To releasing the struggle and living free!

xo Jessica

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