“Today is the future I created yesterday” (Louise Hay)

Visualising who we want to be

Recently I celebrated my 10 year anniversary of moving to the UK. Growing up, I always knew that I was going to live in the UK. I didn’t know how, I just did.

Had you asked me at 17 where I saw my future self, I would have told you I would be living in the UK - I know, because a friend recently told me that's all I talked about when I was in High School. I even checked what I wrote in my year book when I was home with my parents over Christmas, and there it was in black and white, "In ten years I see myself living in the English countryside, with my English husband and our three children".

Well, one of out three isn't bad! (I guess Oxford could qualify for the English countryside)

4 years ago, I knew I wanted to work in Publishing. I had no particular proof, I just knew it.

So I talked about it, imagined it, visualised it, asked myself what steps I needed to take to get there. I even had a back-up plan; if I didn't get the job I really wanted - the one I am in now - I would go back to Bristol and approach it from a different angle, to get the experience I needed to get into Publishing.

And suddenly, I found myself where I had wanted to be.

I think the best way to illustrate how we can live up to our vision, though, is through my friend Sarah, who has slimmed down, and dropped 3 dress sizes this year. One day we looked at her and saw a new person - she had to get used to being that new sporty, active, healthy person.

We need to live ourselves into the new person we are becoming, and bear in mind what we are aiming for, and just like a knitted pattern, we start to take shape, and suddenly we can visualise what it is going to look like.

The transformation itself happens gradually.

Realising how much we have changed strikes us like a flash of lightning.

Purlgirl xx