Speaking of touch, as I write this my finger is swollen and is about 2.5x the size it would be normally, so I had to ask myself, “Am I typing or am I torturing?”. And gripping a pen/pencil is out of the question so the keyboard must do.
No matter because I’m also in North Beach, Miami.
Being in proximity to the water is being in proximity to my vision. And for many, their vision is the same as their dreams. What’s also the same is how the way our brains work as humans. When one has a dream(s), the most powerful thing to do is touch it.
The mind gravitates towards and attracts what it is most familiar with
There is no other way around it. If you regularly shape your environment into one that familiarizes you with your dreams and then act to attain those dreams, there’s a good likelihood you will live those dreams.
Conversely, if you do nothing to familiarize yourself with what you want, at the end of your life, you probably will not have lived out those dreams.
Success Requires a System
The recipe consists of three ingredients:
(1) Thinking, planning, and strategizing about what one desires, one’s dreams.
(2) Touching and familiarizing oneself with those dreams.
(3) Believing one deserves and belongs in the dream.
Thinking, Planning, and Strategizing
If you want something, you need to know EXACTLY what you want. What is the reason behind it? By having it, what feelings and emotions will you have? What feelings and emotions are behind what you want? How bad do you want it, how strong is your desire for it? And what are you willing to do or how much are you willing to give in order to attain it?
Touching The Dream
This is where you get more familiar with what you desire. Remember, your mind gravitates towards and attracts what it is most familiar with.
From time to time, you need to experience things related to your dream. An occasional taste of the dream starts shaking up what is already familiar to you. You are familiarizing your subconscious with the dream so the dream can be manifested into reality.
This is you walking the streets of the beachside neighborhood where you’d love to buy a home.
This is you going to the five-star restaurant that you wish you could eat at for the rest of your life. This is you taking that $100,000 truck for a test drive.
This is you babysitting your little nieces and nephews because one day you’ll have amazing children of your own.
This is you taking the day off and speaking to at-risk youth or volunteering at a local homeless shelter.
DREAMS!
Your mind has a way of filtering and attracting what is familiar. An example is when you get a new car, you start noticing that car everywhere you go.
And, you can visualize your dreams as well. It won’t emit a frequency as powerful as physically immersing yourself in the situation but it’s much, much more powerful than doing nothing to familiarize yourself.
Effectively familiarize yourself with your dream by combining repetitive visualization with the actual touching of the dream. This is the recipe.
Belonging in the Dream (Identity)
You start familiarizing yourself with your dreams, you start developing the sense that you belong in your dreams. This is such a powerful act because what you’re really doing is developing your identity.
Identity, how we view ourselves and what we believe about ourselves, determines what we receive in life.
I’ve been taught to look at our identity like a thermostat.
If one’s identity/thermostat is set at 70 degrees, even if one reaches success of 100 degrees, the identity/thermostat will bring one back to the temperature of 70 degrees. This is why people can achieve great success then lose it. They stopped doing the things to maintain their 100 degree identity.
You must believe you belong in your dream and continue doing the things that get you there. And when you get there, continue doing the things that got you there.
Life is a never-ending process. And it’s most beautiful when we continue the process of developing ourselves.
Bolo Dolo 
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