Have I piqued your interest?
Are you dressed in your orange robes, ready for a life-altering, mind-blowing, out-of-body experience?
Here’s some Strawberry flavored Kool-Aid. Get ready to gulp it down in one giant swallow.
{the room goes deafeningly silent as anticipation builds to a heart-stoppingly new level}
First, think of your least favorite, most un-loved chore that you absolutely have to do or life as you know it will cease to exist.. or your family will revolt and send you off to Siberia on a sled of not-so-gentle, ravenous, smelly werewolves.
Got it? {mine is folding laundry… or vacuuming with our thirty year old garage sale canister vac that bangs my ankles every time I pull it around the corner}
First grab your Netflix.
And some refreshments…
Now, let’s get a bit woo-woo.
Take three deep breaths. As in fill your lungs to the ultimate capacity and slowly exhale.
Imagine yourself doing that task. Like, actually sitting there on your bed {or in your awesome laundry room with counters and junk, if that is your situation}. See yourself folding all of that laundry or vacuuming that pet-hair blanketed floor… or scrubbing that toilet in the boys bathroom.
But here’s the real secret.
Imagine yourself doing it with great PLEASURE. LIke, feel yourself enjoying it. Feel yourself moving through it with ease. Feel yourself finishing it and how amazing it is to have that chore done.
Now, go do it and see if you feel better about it. See if the resistance fades away.
You might have to spend a little more time with it and practice it often before you feel all the resistance vanish.
I do this pretty much every day when I run across something that seems unpleasant or just resistant to.
But, gosh-golly… it words EVERY TIME. I find that I can actually enjoy folding laundry. Who knew???
{What will work better, though, is when I can pull out some cold-hard cash and just pay someone to do it for me. That will require no need for visualization, yo.}
What’s your least favorite task you have to do each day? Are you going to test this out?