The High 5 Habit: Take Control of Your Life with One Simple Habit

by Mel Robbins

Visualize yourself running in the rain. Here’s how it works: If you want to manifest a big dream of running the Boston Marathon, yes, write that dream down every day. To achieve it, however, don’t visualize yourself crossing the finish line and the roaring applause of the crowd. Visualize yourself lacing up your running shoes when it’s 10 degrees out. Close your eyes, and picture what it’s going to feel like to be out there running mile 13 on your own because your earbuds just ran out of batteries. Feel in your body the sensation of your alarm going off at 5 a.m., and you’re exhausted, and you look out the window and see it’s pouring—and you start running in the rain. If your dream is to run a business that brings in six figures a month, don’t visualize the money hitting your account. Visualize what it feels like to be writing a blog post, exhausted, at midnight, after the kids are asleep. Close your eyes and feel, with every fiber of your being, hanging up the phone after being told NO on yet another sales call. Then see yourself pick up the phone and dial the next number.