Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life

by Chase Jarvis

I’ll follow my meditation with a three-minute gratitude and visualization practice. I begin with my eyes closed and make a short list of three genuine and heartfelt moments I’m grateful to have had in my life—and I relive them as if watching the experience through my own eyes and feeling those moments as fully as possible. They can be big life moments, such as my wedding ceremony, or small delicate moments, like when our family pet did something cute—any moment that brought joy or awareness to how awesome life can be. Then I transition into visualizing myself in a world where I have just achieved my three most important goals. I live through the feelings that come along with each achievement, imagining all of it in as much detail as possible: sounds, smells, emotions. What would it look, feel, taste, smell, and sound like to accomplish those goals? The subconscious mind can’t clearly distinguish between visualized experiences and actual experiences, so by focusing on the feelings in the body of achieving these visions, we’re priming our neurology for success.