Visualizing your Future

A great way you and your partner co-create your lives is through inventing a future for your partnership. To create the future, first anchor yourselves in what you value and the vision you have for your relationship. Then, visualize and share with each other your dreams for your future, irrespective of time. As you share your vision of your future, step into those future images and experience what it is like having that future be real and manifested in the world. Where are you living? How does it feel for you both? What do you experience? What does it look like? What is it that lights you up about what you visualize? Examine all the areas of your life, such as your home, family, friends, community, work, career, retirement, play, recreation and health.

As you stand in the future you are co-creating, you are using the same abilities that Merlin the Magician used as mentor to the great King Arthur of the Round Table. Merlin had an uncanny ability to see the future before it occurred. The process of standing together and visualizing images of the future gives you, as a couple, a magic wand like that of Merlin the Magician. The “Merlin Principle” applied to couples is the phenomenon of looking from the future to the present time which allows you to see, feel and sense your future in a clear and tangible way.

Once you share and experience your possible desired future together, you can choose and align on a time frame for the manifestation of the future you have both co-created. You can choose a time frame of 25, 15, 10, 5, or 2 years. Standing together in your co-invented future, you can view the path from the future to the present moment and see clearly what actions you took and what you accomplished along the way. You can also see when those actions and accomplishments occurred. Working from the future (say, 10 to 15 years out) to the present time, you can articulate, in a timeline, the milestones, accomplishments and the actions that naturally occurred on the path to your future.

Committing together to the future you have co-created is essential for expressing your partnership in action. Almost immediately after making this commitment to your future, you will see a host of “partnership projects” needed to fulfill the future you have envisioned. You will experience an alignment of focus and action when you undertake these partnership projects as an expression of your commitment to manifest your future.

References

Smith, C.E. The Merlin Factor: Leadership and strategic intent. Business Strategy Review, Oxford University Press, 5(1), Spring, 1994.

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