In this excerpt from the Progressive Online Course, Dr Joe explains that your personality – how you think, feel, and act – creates your personal reality. So, if you want to create a new life, you must become someone new. When you ask, “What would it be like to be healthy, abundant, free, or in love with life?” the creative center of your brain begins assembling a vision of that future. Now, once you have this clear intention and you emotionally embrace that experience before it happens, your future begins to feel more real than the past.

But you have to keep that vision alive. You have to remember who you want to become and remember who you no longer want to be. Your job, then, is to stay in the excitement of your inspiration. As you stay aware of what keeps you returning to the old self, you can consciously choose the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of your future self. As you keep practicing, challenges will come … but overcoming those challenges is exactly what transforms you.