The Future is Today

The Future as Past: Exercise

Live life through the future instead of the past!

Try this little exercise: This should take approximately an hour to an hour and a half. Don’t think too hard or analyze what you feel, just write it down. Give yourself about 5 to 10 minutes on each section. This is not a test and there are No wrong answers. This is just meant to help you realize who you are in the world and how big a part you really play!

Get a pen and paper

Put the day and month of your birth set in the year 2040 (example: August 5^th, 2040)
Under that day write down what you envision your life and/or your descendant’s lives to be.
Write down the impact that you caused in order for the world to be how it is in 2040.

You have to play big and be generous to yourself.

(Example: On May 10th, 2040 I am be celebrating my 70^th birthday. I am still traveling the world and even off of it. Living life fully and learning all I can about who we are and our different religious and spiritual philosophies. My Interior Design Firms now number 10 world wide, with over 100 Designers and employees. Through my teachings and the efforts of others, the entire world is living peaceably and in harmony with the earth. Feng Shui is practiced worldwide and the knowledge of our ancestors is shared with everyone.)

Next, write down what you did 10 years previous to 2040 (Day-Month-2030) in order for you have accomplished what you have in 2050.

(Example: On May 10th, 2030 I am be 60 years old and running my own Interior Design Firm. I have 6 offices worldwide and am thinking of expanding even further. I am continuing to travel and give lectures about Feng Shui and other interests. To get my design fix I still design and decorate a few choice clients’ homes each year. This year my husband and I are going to revisit Thailand for his birthday.)

Then, write down what you did 10 years before that: 2020, then 2010 and then 2005. Keep each separate and remember to play big in the world and be generous to yourself!

Next, write down what you did in 2004 in order to get to how you were in 2005, then 2003, and then 2002.

(Example: On May 10^th, 2002 I turned 32 years old. Although it seems young, I have been so fortunate to have experienced so much! I am truly grateful for my life and to have the family and friends that I do! The web site is doing very well. I brought on three more Feng Shui Practitioners to help keep it updated with the latest information and to aid in the audits. The e-mails are coming in daily from around the world -from people who wish to contribute articles and would like more information on products and services. This is all very exciting! I just took the NCIDQ, and passed! I am now a Registered Interior Designer! My Interior Decorating business is picking up from several referrals from clients that I have been working with. I will be attending the Feng Shui World Conference this year. I can’t wait to meet all of the Masters and well as Grand master Yap Cheng Hai! This year my Husband and I are going to Egypt for his birthday.)

Then, write down what you did in December of 2001 in order for you to have done what you did in 2002, then go month to month until you reach the current month.

To take it even further you can write down a brief statement on each week of the current month: what you have accomplished in order to achieve the goals you have already stated, until you get to the current week. Then write down a day by day blow of what you did. You are done when you have reached today’s date.

(Examples: The Month of November 2001, I went for a holiday in Spain. My husband’s Birthday is this month and we have decided that every year on his birthday we will travel to an exotic location and explore! I have the web site up and running and have started to get good feed back on it. There have been several e-mails from other Feng Shui Practitioners who would like to contribute their knowledge and skills. There has also been an increase in traffic since I linked this web site with other feng shui sites and got on to several search engines.

The Week of September 1^st, 2001, I am still developing the new web site and adding to it daily. I had a prospective client over to the house for lunch. She loved what I had done to the house and hired me to decorate her new one. I spoke with another Designer who has become a good friend about Feng Shui. She has been studying the Black Sect (or Black Hat) form of Feng Shui and is ready to move on to the more advanced methods. She has hired me to give her and a couple of other colleagues a seminar on Traditional Feng Shui. I love what I do! It has become my life’s goal to help spread the knowledge of balance and harmony and to bring about a global transformation. To have a world that works for everyone!

The day of August 30^th, 2001, I am sitting down at my computer and putting together this article and exercise in the hopes that it will reach people and help then to see themselves for how big they can be in this world. I have uploaded the new web site onto the Internet as an offering of knowledge and transformation, for both mine own and for those who look at it. I have doubts on whether or not to share these examples, but I will leave them in for now. It has helped me reconnect with my future presence. Plus, I hope it will help others know that we all can have big dreams and we all can ACHIEVE them!)

Take a break then go back and read it again. Look at your new life. Is this a life that excites and inspires you? Is this the person who you always thought you could be? Or is it someone who you never could have imagined?

Use this technique to accomplish all of your goals in life. Go to the date or hour you want the goal completed and working backward to the present, write out who you are in order for that goal to get accomplished.

What you should get from this exercise is that by living your life through the possibility of who you are in the future, instead of who you have been in the past, it can free you to accomplish goals you set. You can let go of all of the negative thoughts and any past perceived fowl ups. You are free to create and do anything and everything you desire for yourself and others!