Another great way to take immediate steps towards transitioning to doing what you love is to “be there”. What does this mean? It means to take some time each day to visualize, to think and to feel already “being there”. For example, lets say that you’re currently working at a 9-5 job Monday to Friday, but what you’d really love to do is to write children’s books full time. Well, what you would do is you would visualize yourself already being in that space.

How? Well, if you were already writing children’s books, where would you do it? Would it be at home? At the park? Where would you be writing your books? Would it be on pen and paper first, or would you type it out on the computer? Which software would you use? Would you write during the day or at night? What would you do at lunch?

You may want to take one Saturday or Sunday, and pretend like you are already doing what you love, writing children’s books. Wake up in the morning, and live that one day like you would if you were already doing this full time. Would you promote your books by doing book signings at the local book store? Then go there during another author’s book signing and imagine yourself being the author.

Start getting things ready for your transition so that basically the only thing left one day is to quit your job and start doing what you love.

Things to Notice

Chances are, your thinking right now may be “I would love to write children’s books but I can’t afford to quit my job right now so I’m stuck.” Or whatever it is you’d love to do. However, when you start to really visualize “being there”, you will start to see missing pieces in your vision. You’ll start asking yourself questions that you don’t yet know answers to. For example, who will illustrate your books? Will you do it, or will you have to find someone else to do that for you? If you want to illustrate your own books as part of the creative process, maybe there is an art class you need to take first?

As you start to really go through the motions of already doing what you love, you will see these small gaps that you haven’t really been paying attention to because you thought that they are small, but all these small gaps turn into a whole bunch of excuses that are swimming around in your subconscious mind.

One time I was visualizing making $100,000 and I used to tell myself that once I had that kind of money I would figure out what to invest it in. I never went further then that. I mean, making $100,000 seemed like a really hard thing for me at that time and I figured that figuring out how to invest it was going to be easy so I didn’t really pay attention to it. However, after unsuccessfully coming up with the money in my life over and over again, I started to think about what could really be holding me back.

Then, one day I was in the shower and I was thinking to myself “What if I had the $100,000 right now this second. Let’s pretend I just got it right before I jumped in the shower. What do I do with it now?” and a little bit of panic set in. I had no clue what I was going to do with it. Was I going to spend it on something? Invest it? Give it away? Leave it in the bank account “for now”? I started to wonder if this “unknown” was stopping me.

So, what I did next is I spent the next few days doing a lot of research on investment opportunities. I wanted to find investment vehicles that would allow me to “park” the money for the time being while at the same time having the money grow long term. I went out and bought several books on investing tactics and began researching a whole bunch of investment vehicles. Next, I created a fictitious “portfolio” in an excel spreadsheet of exactly how I would invest $100,000 if I had it that day.

Once I knew exactly what I was going to do with the money once I got it, it felt like a very small and tiny weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I got this really exciting energy flowing through me because I knew exactly what I was going to do with the money once it arrived. Guess what? It arrived!

The point I’m trying to make here is that you need to start visualizing and feeling yourself already being and doing what you love to do, before you do it, so that you can sense what little “fears” pop up. Don’t ignore the small things, as they could be what’s blocking you.

For example, if you are going to be working from home, you may not need your second car anymore since you don’t drive everyday. What if you’re struggling with that because you’re logically thinking that selling your car would make financial sense, at least at first, and sharing one car with your spouse, but what if you fear that because you’re losing a part of your freedom in the process? I know it sounds silly, but silly little things like that sometimes need to be “cleared” before you move on to doing what you love.

The best way to make them surface is to “be there” ahead of time, visualizing and pretending like you’re already doing what you love, and see what pops up.

Once a fear pops up, squash it, overcome it, fix it, face it, or do whatever it takes for you not to fear it anymore.