How to Accelerate Your Results and Skip “Paying Your Dues”

I don’t know about you, but I grew up being taught that if you want to get anywhere in life, you’ve got to pay your dues until you’re due your pay.

I’d like nothing more than to be a master manifester and skip some of those steps. I’m fascinated by the idea of manifesting. I just like things to be a little more concrete when I’m looking to get results.

And that brings me to “futurecasting,” which combines the practical with the more spiritual side of things.

Here’s what I mean —

I was working with a client recently who wanted to transition out of freelancing into a more permanent role. This is not always an easy move to make; his resume needed a makeover.

Where did we look for inspiration? We didn’t dwell on his pre-freelancing jobs or his recent experience. Instead, we focused on the actual posted job descriptions of the management-level roles he wanted to land.

We pulled the keywords from those job descriptions and wove them into his resume.

Did we lie? No! He’d managed plenty of people, projects, and budgets without holding a management title. So I helped him shape his resume to reflect that.

When he met with an HR manager, she confirmed that he was well-positioned for a management role and maybe even a senior management role!

This client went from run-of-the-mill freelancer to management material, just by changing the focus of the words on his resume.

We were able to futurecast his career to accelerate the results of his hard work by painting an accurate picture of his capabilities. He was able to walk right into a new reality of his own making — all thanks to words.

See how this isn’t woo woo magical stuff, but it does have a manifesting element to it?

It’s about shifting your thinking and actions from focusing on a place of lack, what you don’t have, and what you haven’t done to focus on a very real future that simply hasn’t started yet.

Start acting AS IF that future has already started.
Start acting AS IF you are someone you are not — YET!

In my early coaching days, I worked with a client who was terrified of public speaking.

I asked her to think of someone who embodied the presence she wished she could emulate. Her answer: Grace Kelly, the glamorous Hollywood actress turned Princess of Monaco.

I encouraged her to act AS IF she were Grace Kelly. Soon enough, she was stepping into her corporate presentations with confidence, poise, and…grace.

In both of these examples, rather than paying their dues in a hardscrabble way, my clients behaved in a way that they already had what they wanted to get.

Futurecasting is powerful stuff, and it’s a tool you can use to help get what you want too. Try it!