Imagine Your Ideal Scene

by Marc Allen

This Is The Essential First Step
This step is simple - all it involves is writing down a few pages of ideas - and yet it
proved to be vitally important, fundamental to the rapid growth I experienced after I did
it. It opened the door to every other discovery in my life, and has brought me to a level
of success and fulfillment that had been completely unimaginable to me before Idid
this simple process.

A Powerful Exercise
The first step is called the “ideal scene process.” It is another way way to look at the
second habit Stephen Covey gives us in his book “The Seven Habits of Highly
Effective People”. This habit alone is a great key to success: “Begin with the end in
mind.”

This is a simple, powerful key: Begin with the end in mind, and keep the end in mind,
always. Then you’ll discover that the opportunities that lead you there have always
been right in front of you - you just haven’t seen them until now.

Dream Freely And Define Success
The important thing is to allow yourself to freely dream, and then to clearly define what
success if for you.

The “ideal scene” exercise that follows is wonderful for giving you an easy, playful way
to clearly imagine what success is for you as the unique individual you are.

Imagine Your Ideal Scene
It all starts with a dream. The essential first step is to dream and to imagine: Imagine
five years have passed, and you are living your ideal life: doing what you want to do,
being who you want to be, having what you want to have.

Some of us don’t even allow ourselves to dream - and yet it is the essential first step.
Without the dream, achievement is impossible.