It would be great to suddenly receive $60,000,000, wouldn’t it?
Or would it?
Do you have any idea what suddenly getting $60,000,000 would feel like to you?
Would you rate the experience as a 1 or 10 for you? Is this really you? Does it seem realfor you or is it a scene in a movie, something out of a book for you?
Be careful if you said “10.”
False “10’s” are imaginary experiences that you rate a perfect “10” and that seem outrageously wonderful—too wonderful, in fact.
When you really look at your feelings about them, what they describe doesn’t seem to have much to do with you. They are too fantastic or you don’t feel connected with them.
For example, suppose you are now earning $60,000 per year and you come up with a Metastory that depicts you suddenly earning $60 million per year.
You probably have no real idea of what earning $60 million would be like. It’s easy to think of the positive things such wealth would bring, but you’ve probably never considered the many negatives and what you’d have to do to earn $60 million. Or how you would manage that amount of money if you did make it. (For example, many lottery winners end up bankrupt.)
In other words, you probably don’t connect with the reality of earning $60 million. You have a nagging feeling that something’s not right—a sign of conflict.
But if you change your Metastory to doubling or tripling your current income, it would probably be much easier to imagine what you would be doing and what your life would be like.
Doubling or tripling your income would probably be an appropriate “perfect” Metastory, but earning $60 million per year is probably not realistic enough to work for you—yet .
If, however, you really do want to earn $60 million a year, you can probably get there in smaller steps. Each step will be extremely ambitious, but still reasonable. (Though, when you look at what you would lose by changing your lifestyle so drastically, you may decide it’s not what you want.)
How do you tell if you’re on track with your desires?
Here’s a tip:
You’re on solid ground as long as the seemingly impossible elements include an intuitive feeling that they are reasonable and “right for you.”
If a “10” Target seems absolutely perfect for you at this time in your life, don’t reject it just because you’ve never before achieved this result.
After all, maybe $60,000,000 is right for you at this time. I can’t judge that for you.
Just remember that any objective as challenging as doubling or tripling your income ——
or even much, much more—will almost certainly require the Super Achievement
techniques for its accomplishment.
The good news is the Metastory is the basic building block of both the Basic
Achievement and Super Achievement techniques, so you’re learning a tool you’ll need
to create the results you want.
Either way, you win!
