"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
~Albert Einstein
Hope you're having a miraculous day!
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Greetings! 
Just made that word up. Fantaction. It's a combination of fantasy and action. I'm pretty sure it was Einstein who said, "Imagination is the preview of coming attractions." And Buddha said, "The mind is the forerunner of all things." And one of my favorite mantras of all time, "The outer world is a reflection of the inner world." Everything initiates as an idea before it becomes manifest in the physical world. The shirt I'm wearing was an idea. This keyboard - an idea. We can even make the argument that the tree outside my window was the idea of the universe, or God (however you prefer to refer to the organizing intelligence). And so were you. All ideas in the non-local realm, before materializing into the local realm, or the physical world. All things begin as fantasies. Which is really fantastic. Fantasy activates passion. Passion activates intelligence and immediate action. And that's a great recipe for success. In my coaching practice, I am always reminding my clients to SLOW DOWN and create time to fantasize. It sometimes takes some convincing that doing so is actually responsible and as practical as anything. The opposite is hurrying through life driven by the belief that you should be somewhere else and don't really have the time to waste sitting on your butt daydreaming. Can you see the irony in all of that? "I have no time to stop and reflect on how I want to continue creating my life, see, because I'm too busy mindlessly rushing through it trying to get somewhere else that I'm not very clear on the nature of." At the very beginning of every coaching program, my clients are assigned what I call "The Genie Exercise": 
If you had your own personal genie, and that genie had infinite powers (i.e., could rewrite the laws of the universe), and you had infinite wishes, what would you ask for? It's a clever way of asking the question, what do you really really want. But the genie helps to eliminate the temptation of estimating possibility so you can simply respond with what's desirable - regardless of your estimate of it's probability. Miracles come from this exercise. I encourage you to take some time to sit and simply fantasize, like a child, about what magic you would love to create for your life. Ignite some passion with this. And then take some bold, courageous, heroic, unprecedented, crazy ass action that you've never taken before and see what comes of it. Create Miracles! Chris p.s. I just posted a new blog on the Intelligence of FUN! Check it out here: (click on the words, HAVE FUN, below) HAVE FUN! __________________________________________________________ You can get my blog posts also delivered directly to your inbox by going to my blog page and signing up. www.chrisdorrisblog.com Here's an image of the right sidebar of my blog page.  You can either enter your email address in the space and/or you can subscribe via Networked Blogs (a Facebook Application) by clicking the blue "Follow this blog" button. | 
