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Unbeknownst to most people, it is actually possible to plan to live your perfect lifestyle and then actually make it become your reality.

What do you think about this thought

“we all have a vision of what our perfect lifestyle would look like; the challenge is trying to figure out

how the hell to actually live it in your lifetime.”

That’s the million dollar question isn’t it. Well here’s a little exercise that can help you get there

The theory behind this exercise is that you need to know where you’ve been, and where you are at this moment in your life, before you can determine what the right course of action is that you want to take.

So, for this example, I’m going to use 30 years of age as our starting point. You can replace that with your current age. Take as much time as you want with this exercise and it may even help to write some stuff down. The important thing is to get of it is to know what you want in your life. What type of lifestyle do you want? So just follow along, think about questions and answer appropriately for what fits into your life.

1. Take a snapshot of what your lifestyle is like right now. What does it include? What parts do you like and what parts don’t you like?
2. Now follow the red arrow back to 5 years ago in your life. What was your life like then? What did it include? What did you like about it and what did you want to change? And Most importantly, what did you want your life to like 5 years from that day 5 years ago (which of course is today – I know it’s a little confusing but this is a powerful exercise to go through)
3. Now follow the ocean blue arrow back to the present day ask yourself if your vision from 5 years ago is what you are living today? Then realize that regardless of what the answer is, it doesn’t matter, all you can do is take what you have and build on it.
4. Dark Blue Arrow – Start to project what you want your life to like in 5 years time. In an ideal world what would it include? Who is part of it and what are you doing? How much money do you make? What things are you experiencing? These are all important questions.
5. Green Arrow – Ask yourself the same questions from #4 only this time it’s 10 years into the future.
6. Purple Arrow – Ask yourself the same questions as in #4  again. This time it’s 20 years into the future
7. Orange Arrow – Depending on how old you are right now you can project yourself into the future 40 years and ask yourself the same questions as in #4.

The point of this exercise is to simply get you thinking about what you really, really want and ask yourself if earning passive income streams would make that lifestyle you envision easier to attain? Can you see how you can use this process to live your perfect lifestyle. The first thing you need to do is make sure that you’ve got a clear vision of what that lifestyle is. The second thing you need to do is go through this self-evaluation process on a daily, weekly, monthly and annual basis.

The bottom line is that you need to make sure that you are always moving towards your goal.  There is no way to do this unless you know where you want to go and then keep ‘score’ of where you are at in relation of where you want to be.

If you don’t keep score, how do you know if you are winning or losing? The best business’s in the world keep score every month by doing there financial analysis. Professional athletes keep score of their fitness every day so they know where they’re at so they know whether they have to push harder. By training at the optimal level they will be able to perform at the ultimate level.

You can do the same by going through this life projection exercise on a regular basis to make sure your plan to live your perfect lifestyle is on track.

Cheers to your perfect lifestyle,

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