Day 286: Your Pen Can Create Your Future
A few days ago we talked about writing the script for your life, and I suggested that you write one scene about something you desire.
Scripting is something I've been aware of for decades, and I've always seen it as a written record of a visualization because many desires come to us through a picture in our mind. It's a great way of taking a feeling of something you desire and going beyond picturing how life will be with it.
Now you can use the physical act of writing, which has a special connection to your brain, and expand on that vision. You can ask yourself questions and then discover the answers, like I often do in these emails.
The Teachings of Abraham say it will help you break your habit of talking about things as they are and will help you begin talking about how you would like things to be. Scripting will help you offer your vibration deliberately.
The more you focus on what you're scripting, the more you begin to accept it as possible, and then as real. Your energy starts responding to what you're asking for. Your attention begins looking for matching pieces. And the Universe responds to what you're asking for. And it delivers to you the energetic essence of what you desire.
Scripting is a positive way of influencing the algorithm in your mind.
Instead of letting the world keep feeding you evidence of what already is, you begin feeding your own mind images, language, and feelings that match what you are choosing next.
A vivid example of this happened back in 1981 for me during a sales meeting, listening to a guy talk on a record album.
Back in 1956, Earl Nightingale recorded a talk called "The Strangest Secret". I heard it in that morning sales meeting at the real estate company I worked for. It blew my mind.
And here I was listening to it at work, 25 years later.
And I wasn't the only one. It sold over a million copies and earned the first-ever Gold Record for a spoken-word album. He became known as the "Dean of Personal Development".
I was ready for that message because just the year before, my first reading list of what I would call mind-training books (called productivity-enhancing books in the real estate class I took) was taking root inside me.
These books were quickly changing who I was and how I saw myself and my ability to co-create my life.
But that day, sitting in that small meeting room in Florida, will be etched in my brain forever as a life-changing experience because of how primed I was for that information. My mind had been clearing my way, and I understood the depth of what he was saying.
The broad strokes of the message were that we become what we think about all day long. Whatever we focus on is what we get more of and who we become.
I took that information and ran with it. I visualized. I wrote in my notebook about what I wanted in my future. I did it mostly in the form of goal setting and breaking it down into what needed to happen to make it a reality.
Very similar to some of the work I do today with hypnosis, now that I think about it.
Scripting is such a powerful tool. That pen that you hold can create your entire future, as you choose it.
In classes or at seminars, doing it once becomes more of a party trick.
It's a tool you can use daily or weekly to add to or subtract from your life script as you continually refine what you're choosing. It clarifies your thinking and allows you to go beyond what you see in your life today.
In Change One Thing, Change Your Life, there's a day when you do a visualization, and then you write about it.
I've had a similar focus each time I've done it, but the details have shifted as I've grown and changed, and so has what I want my life to look like.
That's one of the beautiful things about scripting. You're not locking yourself into one version of the future forever. You're listening, refining, letting the vision mature as you do.
I've been moving toward this vision for 25 years now. It's a big vision, and now I feel like I've grown into the person who is ready to make it happen. And with AI, I now have the tools to give me that freedom.
So, not everything you script needs to be in the immediate future. It can also be the long-range, big picture you're moving toward in life.
It can be the feeling you're practicing. The identity you're growing into. The freedom your soul keeps pointing toward. The contribution you're preparing to make.
The life you may not know how to create yet, but already recognize when you let yourself see it.
That's why scripting matters. It gives your desire a place to become visible. It gives your mind something new to rehearse and it gives your energy a direction.
It lets you participate with the future instead of only waiting for it to arrive.
Today's Gentle Practice
Take out a notebook or open a blank page.
Ask yourself:
What is one scene from my future that I want to begin rehearsing with love?
Let it be simple.
A morning.
A room.
A conversation.
A feeling in your body.
A version of your work, your home, your relationships, or your freedom that feels true.
Write enough detail that you can feel it while you're writing.
You don't have to know how it will happen.
Today, you're simply giving the vision a place to land.
With you,
Lynn
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