The Question
So a few weeks ago, I was got an e-mail from super bad-ass internet marketer Frank Kern about this holiday DVD he was giving away for free as a way to give back to the community. I got it and watched it.
The DVD is a presentation he gave at some seminar. He details this exercise where you sit down and answer one question. You answer it in incredible, minute detail. Doing say has the power to change your life. What is this “magical” question?
It’s “What would you do on your perfect day?”
Go into insane detail on this exercise. Write about what you think about when you wake up in the morning. What do you have for breakfast? Where are you eating breakfast? What do you do with your time? What do you wear? How do your clothes feel against your body? Where do you live? Who do you spend your time with? What do you do when you spend your time with them? How does that make you feel? What are you working toward? What makes you happy?
You get the idea.
Frank spent about 4 hours writing down the answer to this question. He advocates getting into the boring, mundane details because the boring and mundane things are what life is made of. Make this a day that you could live over and over again for the rest of your life and be completely content with it.
Frank says that almost as if by magic, he ended up living the exact life he wrote about within the following nine months after doing it.
Pretty cool.
I actually did this exercise, oh, maybe two years ago. I don’t remember where I heard about from back then, I didn’t take it into as insane detail as Frank did. Personally, everything I wrote didn’t come true, but my current reality bears an odd resemblance to what I wrote about.
At the time, I was single, living in some sprawled out suburban desert wasteland in Tempe, Arizona. The heat was oppressive and made me feel miserable most of the time. I was in grad school taking lots of classes that didn’t particularly interest me that much.
I wrote about living in an exciting dense neighborhood where I could walk anywhere. I had an awesome girlfriend and we lived together in a historic apartment building. I spent my days hanging out in coffee shops and creating artwork. My evenings were spent with close friends sharing good times.
Today, I now living in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, which is pretty cool place. Lots of activity and essentially the complete antithesis of anything you could find in Arizona. I have a girlfriend that fits the description of the girl that I wrote about very closely. I spend my time working on building websites in coffee shops.
Pretty cool! I may not be all the way there, but I think I’m on track to getting what I wrote about two years ago.
I’m going to take some time today to answer the question again. This time in more detail and with more description. I’d recommend that you do this too. When you finish doing this you should be totally jazzed and excited about what you wrote about. You should be chomping at the bit to get out there and make it yours. If you’re not, then you need to go back and do it again, focusing on what you really want for yourself.
It’ll be interesting to see how this goes…