Sean Rasmussen

There are many ways to improve your life.  We are faced with many choices every day.  Life can get confusing and it’s easy to forget to stay grateful for the things we have rather than focusing on “what we have not“.   To visualize a goal or something you highly desire in your life can be hard for some people.  So how can we make this task a bit easier?  Well, there are ways you can make it easier for yourself.

Improve Your Life With Art

The brain is a mysterious thing. Some days, it helps us easily recall our very first phone number while other days, it blocks out where we put the car keys the night before. While even doctors and scientists are baffled by the brain, realizing that it does play a role in our daily lives can help us use it to our advantage and for our personal motivation and self development.

Art, for example, is a visual expression of something, someone, or some emotion. By creating art, you are allowing your brain to figure out how to bring the images inside of it to the media that you are using. What many people don’t realize is that by creating art pieces, you can also help your mental health and your confidence – even if you never show the pieces to anyone else.

Visualizing Your Dreams

If you have a dream of living in a certain house, you might create a picture of this house with pencils or markers. This helps to create the brainwaves and chemical chains in the brain that leave an impression in your mind. Each time you look at this picture, you will recall the reasons why you were making it and what these reasons mean to you. In addition, you will also be thinking and visualizing your dreams for the entire length of the project. You will be more motivated towards your goal.

Take some time to create some form of art each day to help you engage this creative side of your brain that wants to create a better reality for you. You don’t have to create something that anyone will see or that anyone would understand when they looked at it. This is a personal expression of your dreams and your feelings so that you can give them a permanent place in your brain. By turning on your brain, you may just be able to turn on the actions and the mindset that helps you get exactly what you want.

Manifesting Your Future

In essence, you are manifesting your future. You are setting goals and targets towards what you want in the future by creating it through art. If you don’t believe in writing your goals down maybe the “art approach” will work for you.

Have a most outstanding day

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
SeanRasmussen.com © 2004 - 2008

I’ve spoken about a persons identity on several occasions in the past. One example is the post: An Empowered Identity. So what creates your identity? What shapes it and how can you influence it over time? The are subtle little things you can do to enhance your own ‘persona’ or self image over time.

We’ve all heard the get rich quick schemes in which you only have to work ten minutes a day to make millions of dollars. We laugh at these promises because there’s no way that could actually happen, right? Though you might not be sitting in piles of money at the end of the practice, you can begin to change your life in less than five minutes a day. By harnessing the power of your mind, you can begin to change the way your life is headed.

Everyone Has Five Minutes To Spare

Whichever is more convenient, stop and sit down with yourself somewhere quiet. You need to close your eyes and begin to picture the thing you want most in your life. Picture it in detail so that it’s clear what you want and what your life will be like once you have it. Think about the smells, the sounds, the tastes, the feel and the looks – all of these will help to intensify the effect of this visualization.

Changing Your Brain Chemistry

What you’re doing is changing your brain chemistry a little by imprinting this positive picture in your head. The more you practice this, the more your brain will change, causing your actions to become influenced by this impression you have made in your mind. By simply visualizing the thing you want most each day, you will begin to make choices in your life that bring you closer to this goal. For example, if you want to lose weight and you visualize a skinnier new you, you will notice that you’re not as hungry for that second helping anymore and that you want to exercise more because you want that picture in your head.

It’s really that simple. By taking the time to create a picture in your mind of what you want, you can begin to create that impossible dream.

Have a most outstanding day

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
SeanRasmussen.com © 2004 - 2008