Before you got into bed last night, you probably had a pretty good idea of what you were going to do when you woke up. Most of us have some kind of schedule that we try to keep. Certain activities that we need to attend to.
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But did you have a good idea of how you’re going to feel when you woke up this morning? It’s one thing to consider what we’re going to do but it’s quite another to consider how we’re going to feel.
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The reason you knew what you were going to do when you woke up this morning is that you gave it some thought. You considered how your day was going to go beforehand.
When you take the time to visualize yourself waking up in the morning feeling great after a wonderful nights sleep, fully energized and ready to go, you are actually planning for tomorrow.
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Your not planning your activities, you’re planning your emotions! First visualize a pleasant morning experience. Then indulge yourself in those good feelings, actually allow yourself to get all wrapped up in how wonderful it is to wake up feeling really good.
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When you go to bed with an idea in your mind, guess what? The chances that you will actually wake up feeling good will go up considerably because you’ve already experienced it in your mind. You’ve already been there once and your mind doesn’t know the difference between the actual experience and the imagined experience.
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Tomorrow when you wake up your mind is going to recall what you already programmed into it. As far as your mind is concerned, you’ve already had this experience once and it felt great.
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Why not give some preliminary consideration to how you’re going to feel, not just tomorrow morning at every morning? In fact why not take it a step further?
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If you’re going to work tomorrow, why not stop and imagine yourself going to work and feeling absolutely wonderful about it? See yourself in an unexplainably good mood all day long. Consider any activity that’s going to affect your day and feel yourself enjoying it! When you actually have that experience, you will be preprogrammed to enjoy it. Again, because your mind thinks you’ve already done it before and it remembers that it was enjoyable.
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We have much more control over our feelings and moods than most people think possible. I invite you to start exercising that control immediately. I invite you to start planning ahead. Make an emotional schedule for a great day - no matter what activities you will be involved in.
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You already know to some degree what you’ll be doing. Why not choose to also know ahead of time how you’re going to feel about it?
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