1. Choose your favourite self help, life coaching or self development book.  You’ve probably read it many times and it’s looking well-thumbed by now.
2. Decide what in that book was the most useful thing you’ve ever read.  Think about it.  There will have been a page you were reading that just made perfect sense to you, and you probably thought - “That’s for me.  I can do that.  That will transform my life - if I can do it”.
3. Read it again.  I know you’re raising your eyes to the skies and thinking - “I don’t really need to read it again.  That might apply to everyone else, but not me.  I know Jack Canfield, Richard Bandler, Hale Dwoskin, Owen Fitzpatrick etc. (insert your own favourite guru here!) by heart.”  I’m telling you - read it again NOW!
4. Ask yourself what is it that appeals to you about that particular passage/page/chapter?  What pictures does it bring to mind?  Are you reading about Paul McKenna making you rich?  Or Ekhart Tolle helping you to live “in the now”?  Do you see yourself driving your dream car home to that magnificent home with the seven bathrooms?  Or is it that you can feel the sea breeze blowing on your face as you stand in the prow of your beautiful yacht as you sail the Caribbean? 
5. Envision yourself living as the book suggests.  Mentally create as lifelike a picture as you can.  It’s important to make the image of your dreams into the image of your reality by creating as clear a vision as you can.  Give it all the details - sights, sounds, smells - the whole lot.  The more you can see what you will see, hear what you will hear, feel what it will feel like, the better your mindset will be for beginning.
6. And finally, which is the heart of the matter, Take Action!  Based on your life-like and life-size vision of your future, begin to work on whichever self development programme you have chosen.  At every step of the way, stop and reinforce that vision you have created in your mind and use it to strengthen your determination and inspiration to complete the work you set yourself.

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