Monday February 2, 2009\u00a0\u00a0 I love the movie Groundhog Day.\u00a0 In it, Bill Murray’s character finds himself reliving February 2nd over and over and over again.\u00a0 It seems that no matter what he does all day and all night, at 6:00am he will once again awaken to the same day he just had.\u00a0 He gets into a philosophical discussion with two drunks and asks what would you do if you knew you’d get to live today all over again?<\/p>\n
His companion asks, “You mean with no consequences for your actions?”<\/p>\n
“Yes,” Bill Murray’s character says, “exactly”.\u00a0 He then proceeds to do some pretty shady things, like picking up women usng info he gleaned from them the day before, a day that no one but he remembers.\u00a0 At first, he uses this to his advantage, then comes the realisation that he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people do the same thing every day.\u00a0 The more Phil relives the same day, the more he’s forced to look at other people’s lives, and something unusual happens: he begins to care about them. He starts to respect people, he begins to want to help others and try to make their lives easier.<\/p>\n
What would you do if you knew that no matter what you did today, tomorrow you’d get a chance to relive it all over again, or whatever else you wanted, ad infinitum?\u00a0 What would you spend each of the 24 hours from 6:00a.m. doing?\u00a0 Where would you go?\u00a0 What would you have for breakfast?\u00a0 Who would be there with you? What would you spend the afternoon doing?\u00a0 The evening?\u00a0 Where would you be?\u00a0 How would you be dressed?<\/p>\n
And I like the idea that if I am feeling like I am stuck in a rut and doing the same things over and over with the same people again and again, that all I have to do is approach everything with a new outlook.\u00a0 An outlook that says “let me help,” an outlook that says, “we’re all in this together.”\u00a0 An outlook that says, “together we can help make it easier for everyone.”\u00a0 That’s what transforms where you are from a prison to an open road, taking what you see and who you see right in front of you, and making a heaven of it.<\/p>\n
Re-writing the movie that you star in with these friends and family members is what transforms relationships and makes life a heaven on Earth for you.\u00a0 So if you were going to re-write today’s script and it would play out tomorrow, what would you do?\u00a0 Who would you say what to?<\/p>\n
You’ve got the power to pre-pave your future to be whatever you wish it to be.\u00a0 Spend just 10 minutes twice a day doing creative visualization of a scenario you would like to experience.\u00a0 Really throw yourself into it. Bring up that feeling you get in your heart when you are experiencing it.\u00a0 Every time you do that, you are vibrating in harmony with it, and you are attracting it to you.<\/p>\n
So, starting tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m., you get up and it’s Groundhog Day all over again.<\/p>\n
What will you do differently?<\/p>\n