How to Visualize Your Dream into Reality

Foreign. Hey, my friends, it's Brendan Burchard. And welcome to the Brendan Show. This is a podcast about helping you reach high performance in your life, in every area of your life. It's about staying more motivated, more confident, more disciplined and on purpose. You know, the high performance experience is really about feeling more vibrant, more connected, more excellent, more fulfilled in your life. But it's also challenging you because you and I both know it's difficult to reach those levels of high performance without support, without ongoing commitment and dedication to your own personal development. So welcome to our HPX community. Thank you for joining us here on the Brendon Show. I'm super pumped for today's episode. Before we begin, I want to let you know that we have specials right now on our HPX nutrition line. If you didn't know it, I rolled out three specific products to help you with your performance. These are three specific supplements that will really give you the edge. Now, don't worry, I'm not starting an MLM or a downline. I'm not asking you to promote any of my products. And frankly, just like you, there's a lot of different companies and a lot of different products that I love and I enjoy and I'm not trying to compete with. It was specifically, I could not find three world class supplements that specifically helped me in these areas. So we've got HPX Optimize, which is a mental focus and energy product for your brain health. Then we've got Essentials, which is a functional multivitamin which we've basically enhanced for longevity, for joint health and for vitality and digestion. But what we did, instead of like making a multivitamin where they sprinkled a million different things in there that actually have no effect, we put in dosages here that you'll be amazed by. And then finally we've got HPX Organic Boost, which is the energy drink mix that I take because it's 100% organization organic. It's actually delicious too, I have to tell you that. So go check it out. Hpxwellness.com, everything you need to know is right there. And if you've ever wanted to know how to reach the high performance experience in terms of your biology and physiology, these products can really support you. Go to hpxwellness.com and without further ado, onto today's episode.

How many of you in this room actually know already how to improve your life? You already know where to focus on your life and you probably know what to do, but you haven't done it yet. Be honest. Raise your hands. Okay. About half the room of truth tellers and half the room. I'll just pretend you didn't hear the questions. Because who knows exactly what you need to do to change already, right? People say, oh, I want to lose weight, Brendan. I don't know why I haven't lost weight. I'll say, do you know how?

Yes.

Have you gone to the gym? So people know what to do. It's that they fail to do it. That essence is called common sense. We know what to do, but the failure in the practice comes from a failure. Sometimes of will, sometimes of circumstance, sometimes of something. But here's what I'd love you to do. If you're failing to implement something you know you should already do, please tune in. If you are failing to implement something you already know you can do. Your vision. Life is stuck to today. Your vision is stuck to yesterday. Because if you have a different vision for your life and you know what to do, and that vision is compelling, that vision is something that is real and important and exciting for you, guess what? You do it. If it's a fake vision, a half vision, a mimicry vision, a follow the leader vision, not your vision. That's why you're not doing the basics right. If you haven't lost the weight, you don't have a vision for your life healthfully yet. You want to lose pounds, but you haven't envisioned a healthy life. So even the commonsensical things, you don't do it right. Who has eaten a frigging bag of chips in the last 30 days? A whole bag of chips. Who ate that bag of chips at one sitting? Who ate the bag of chips in one sitting and had to fight not to open the second bag? Okay, who opened the second bag? Anybody? Okay, okay. I'm just making sure you're all being real here, but let's go. It's not just health. Think about that dream you have. You know, you wanted to write like, my dream was to be a writer and a coach, right? I want to be a writer and I want to be a life coach or business coach. Okay, cool. That's what I wanted to do. Common sense says, Brendan, sit down and write every day. But I didn't see it yet. I didn't visualize that vision and own that dream yet. It was an idea, but it wasn't a vision. In my heart, I didn't see it.

Feel it, walk through it.

I remember I said, one day I'm going to be comfortable talking to people, because this is not how I came out of the womb. I know for a very long time I love talking to people and speaking on a stage, especially one that big. No, thank you, ma'.

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Not of an interest. And then I said, well, you know what? If I really want to make a difference in the world, I have to communicate better. I really have to get better at that. And so I would lay in bed every morning and I would lay there and I would visualize myself, see a vision of my future on a stage. And I would see myself walking to one side and saying something amazing. And they would stand on their feet because I said something amazing. And then I went to the other side and I said something equally amazing. And all the amazing just kept coming out. And people would stand and they would shout and they would scream and I would see it. And as I was visualizing that vision of myself, guess what? I would be sitting in bed in complete anxiety. I'd be sweating out the armpits. You ever dream of your vision of your future and it makes you sweat? Oh, I am weird. Okay, are you all here? Say I'm here. You've never seen a vision of your future and it kind of freaked you out. If you haven't, you're not dreaming big enough yet, babe. If something in the future doesn't scare you, like, ooh, that, like, see, if I want to be a public speaker and I don't think of a stage that big and I don't sweat, I better think of a bigger stage until I start sweating, right? To allow that discomfort, that vision, that's bigger.

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We'll talk about willpower, we'll talk about confidence, we'll talk about discipline. But I'm here to tell you a lot of the reason people don't take daily, real, practical, common sense efforts towards their dreams is they don't see the dream yet. They haven't laid awake and thought about it long Enough. They thought, wouldn't that be nice? There's a difference between wouldn't that be nice? And I own this dream. It is in my heart. It is in my legs. It is in my body. I feel it, I sense it. That's mine. Let's go. You don't luck into that. You decide what you want and you see it and you visualize it, and you step into it mentally, day after day after day. And people say, oh, well, Brendan, what if it doesn't come true? I'm like, oh, babe, it's highly likely it won't. But who taught you it was about the destination? Didn't we all learn it's about the journey? Turn to the person, left, right, shake them and say, it's about the journey. It's about the journey. One of the reasons common practice isn't common practice is because it is so common. It's mundane efforts every day, common practice. It's just same thing. It doesn't look like a lot, doesn't feel like a lot. It's little inches, steps forward, incremental advancement. It's not sexy. We want the destination. And in the day, when we don't feel the destination, we're like, ugh. You know, I dream of the big stage, but then my first stage is that little room you all saw. And some people go, oh, well, that's not it. I say, oh, of course.

Gonna start small.

Keep trying, keep getting better. Learn to talk to people. Get out of my weird shell, like, you know, not be so awkward, and just try to, you know, get many words out in a row. It wasn't like, oh, one day I'm gonna speak in front of, you know, this and that and arenas. That happened. And I could see it, and I forced myself to see it. But I would take the common everyday practices because the visions were mine.

They were my dreams.

Don't think one day you'll have a vision and become so strong. See a little bit of the vision and keep visualizing it. Keep visualizing it. Keep seeing it. Keep visualizing. Every morning for, like, three years, I would lay there and imagine myself talking better. Imagine myself on stage, working the stage, getting away from the podium, right? You don't see a podium. There's nothing up here. There's not a chair up here at all. I got 38ft to work here, and then I got another mile to lap the room. I'm gonna work it. Oh, I had to see myself walking. That's weird. Okay. Yeah, walk. Brendan, move.

Get.

You know, you have to see this Stuff y' all with me so far. Don't think the vision has to be complete. The vision has to be tapped every day. Tap into it, see it, think about it, see it, think about it. See it, think about it. And it comes into more formation. Everyone wants their vision, their dream delivered as a complete Netflix package. I'm like, that's not how it goes. You see a little piece of it and you observe it and play it out. See another piece, observe it, think it out. Observe it, think it out. Observe it, think it out.

All right. Hey, it's Brendan. I hope you enjoyed that episode and I hope it helped you reach another level of high performance in your life. Whether it's just a shift in your mindset or shift in your habits or a shift in your intention for the day. I really honor you for listening to the Brendon show and I'm deeply thankful. Please. So could you do me a favor? Could you just go onto itunes or Apple podcasts and rate and review this episode or any of our episodes? And also while you're there to help me, just download the last five episodes too, onto your phone. Because, you know, Apple really cares about the downloads and the rating and reviews. And I've never really asked for that in six years of podcasting and finally my friends convinced me to ask you to do that for me. I've never asked anything with my podcast community ever, but I'd really, really appreciate if you could do that. Also, if you would like some more in depth training, please don't forget that every single month I go live for two hours and teach new and original personal development, research new frameworks to my entire virtual community in our HPX coaching program. And you can just go to hpxcoaching.com that's hpxcoaching.com to learn all about the different options there. But listen, I'm live two hours every single month with literally thousands of high achievers from around the world who tune in to get these new frameworks for reaching high performance in their life. Sometimes we talk about relationships, sometimes we talk about breaking bad habits. Sometimes we talk about achieving another level of confidence or discipline or goal attainment. But we are there every single month and I'd love for you to join us. Just go to hpxcoaching.com to see all of your options and really join us. Dedicate yourself to personal mastery. Dedicate yourself to this journey, not just once in a while with an episode here or there or a book there, but literally a program that could change your Life. It's called HPX Coaching and you can go to hpxcoaching.com until next time, my friends, please remember every single day you can choose to be average or ordinary or just kind of go through the motions, or you can be more intentional, more disciplined, more excellence driven what you do because you know you need to serve those you love and those that you lead. You can choose to be extraordinary. So my friends, go out there today and be extraordinary. It.