Compiled and Contributed by Jeanette Elton (eltonje@market1.com)

From the book: Future Diary
by Mark Victor Hansen

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I AM

Seeing myself as a success, feeling myself as a success, believing in my successes. 

Personal goals must be stated in the first person: I AM I AM is you self-definition in process. We instantly and constantly contract with ourselves to become whatever we attach to the words I AM. Write everything good that you are and want to be.

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Affirmation: The words you say to yourself or others say to you that you think about and act upon and that ultimately act upon you. Give yourself positive affirmations. I am a happy person I am a loyal and true friend I am a nurturing parent. I am an inspired artist. I am a dynamic executive.

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YOU ARE

Etch the thought into the fabric of your being until you become it. Restate your goals in the second person: YOU ARE. Add to your list. 

The world s conditioning is so complete that we must spend half our lives unlearning what we have learned, reprogramming ourselves for what we want to know. We are influenced by what we hear other say about us- YOU ARE . Nine out of ten of these inputs are denials or negatives. You are erasing them now. Give yourself more positive affirmations beginning with YOU ARE.

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Your future emanates totally and absolutely from your present mental attitude. Restate your goals in the third person, using your full name. Repeat them aloud early in the morning and late at night. Reiterate twice daily for one month.

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Man is what he believes. Anton Chekov (1860-1904)

Expand your goals in the third person. Reiterate three times daily for a month and fill all the inner spaces of your thoughts, feelings and nature.

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I WANT

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

Write down every good thing you want to be, do or have.

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Goals are a preview of future events and experiences in your life.

Write down your dreams. 

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You have 18 billion brain cells waiting to be activated by a big goal.

Dream, fantasize, and expect your ideas to come into being.

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I WANT TO HAVE

It s not that people want too much, it s that they want too little.

Begin by listing three tangible goals and three intangible goals.

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I WANT TO DO

Thinking is what life is all about. The most important thing you can think about is your life.

Write down your hopes, plans, aspirations, and high purposes.

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When you know clearly what you want you'll get it with exhilarating acceleration.

Your potential is limitless. Continue to expand this list.

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Add to this list every day. Reach for the sky!

When you know clearly what you want, you ll wake up every morning excited about life

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I WANT PRECISELY

Describing your desires on these pages is the initial step to their physical realization

Attain your desires by picturing them keenly, clearly, crisply in your mind.

Write a detailed description of your major goals.

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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. Write a minutely detailed description of your primary goal. See in your mind s eye as if it is already yours. Can you visualize it? Can you feel it?

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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Select another goal to materialize in your mind s eye.

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Principle: Ideas are always created as forms.

Turn your ideas into reality.

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MY ECONOMIC WANTS

Time is a priority. We all invest it wisely when we are on purpose, when we are dedicated to the business of accomplishing our lives. Consider your economic wants: 

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MY SPIRITUAL WANTS

We can do all things if we will (Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472)

Consider your spiritual wants:

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MY LOVES

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

Write the names of the people you love. Include mentors, people with tremendous capabilities and knowledge which they are willing to share people you would like to imitate, emulate, match, and surpass.

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PERSONAL GROWTH

We have no greater or lesser conquest than over ourselves. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

There is no growth in life without the development of one s own unique self.

Write: how I want to grow mentally ; physically; emotionally spiritually;

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MENTAL GOALS

We are what we think about. Give yourself time limitations that see you to these achievements. Then set new ones. books I will read; audio-tapes I will hear; music I will listen to; speakers I will experience; courses I will take.

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HEALTH GOALS

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958)- my desired weight; my desired measurements; my daily exercise program; my diet; my sleep regimen; play; time.

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EMOTIONAL GOALS

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

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SPIRITUAL GOALS

Every thought in the subconscious is created; ultimately it demonstrates itself.

prayer; meditation; church attendance; believing in myself;

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CAREER GOALS

There is only one success; to be able to spend your life in your own way/ Christopher Morley (1870-1957) Qualify these goals and set a schedule for accomplishing them.

becoming more effective; developing contacts; securing a promotion;

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FINANCIAL GOALS

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. Confucius (c.551-479 B.C.) Quantify these goals and set a schedule for accomplishing them.

income; savings; investments; tithing; projects

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FAMILY GOALS

Time goes, you say? Ah, no, alas. time stays, we go. Austin Dobson (1840-1921)

Schedule time to spend with your family. Make this priority time house chores; leisure activities; shared time with mate; shared time with children; shared time with parents

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SOCIAL GOALS

Every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself. Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 121-180)

people to meet; people to get to know; keeping in touch; entertaining ;

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SOWING & REAPING

Future is creative stuff that can be constructed as we like it. It only requires predrawn blue prints so that you can make your way smooth, beautiful, and perfect. Consider: How can I increase my sowing (service, giving, productivity) and my reaping (receiving, reward, harvest)

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LOVE OF GIVING

The only waste of human resources is to let them go unused. 

Consider: What have I to give out of love of selfless giving; to myself; to my family; to my work; to may church; to my community; to the world.

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I AM THANKFUL

Reflect... grow...plan...experience a life renaissance.

Let this list grow day by day. four things I am thankful for today

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May you live all the days of your life Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Each day add four more things you are thankful for.

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And in today already walks tomorrow. Samuel Taylor Coloridge (1772-1834)

Review this list from time to time. Let it nourish you.

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MY MAJOR PURPOSE

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)

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You ought to be afraid to die until you ve contributed something great back to humanity. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

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SUCCESSES TO COME

FUTURE DIARY takes you from the future to the present.

Visualize these success clearly in your mind s eye.

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The more you think about it, the quicker you get it.

Can you taste these successes?

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VICTORIES & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been but what we yearn to be. Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)

Write down your goals as if they have already been accomplished, giving dates.

In 1985 I inspired an audience of 10,000; In 1986, I bought a red Rolls Royce.

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If you write a big enough personal agenda you will help all of mankind.

 Does the bumblebee know the vast scope of its job as it pollinates a flower?

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Change your thoughts and you change your world.

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The success of mankind begins with the individual. If you understand these principles of personal achievement, who knows what humanity can achieve. Keep adding to these lists continuously expanding them. Review this diary 20 minutes daily on rising and retiring.

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There is no wealth but life. (John Riskin (1819-1900)

Review your goals. In your mind s eye you see yourself possessing all of them already.

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