Visualizing Success

I've been thinking a lot about a fantastic presentation given at the Summer Institute this year about visualizing your own success. There are so many areas of my life that I'm trying to succeed in at the moment, I don't really know where to begin. I'm not going to write about them all here, but I thought if I wrote a list and made it public, the whole world would see my "To Do List of Success" and I would be held to it. Of course, I don't think there is anyone out there reading this, and I can always edit the list after I publish the post, but that's beside the point (or is it "besides the point"?).

So, without further ado, here are the "successes" I'm going to visualize. Many of them will be visualized in my journal, but I hope to chronicle the the educational visualizations here at some point in time.

1. My best friend has informed me that if I visualize the man that I will eventually marry, he will find me. She found this in The Secret - so far all I'm 100% certain of is that he will be a writer. And that I'm in no rush.
2. My writing career. Where do I see my success? I'd like a career like David Sedaris's, but I would also give my right arm to be a novelist, even if it's just once. Ironically, I almost wrote that I'd "give my write arm to be a novelist", but I caught the pun before saving the post. Irony is my favorite literary element after all.
3. My school year. I'll be teaching all seniors. I'll be teaching a class for which I wrote the curriculum. I want to do more writing with my kids and make it meaningful. It will mean getting rid of some of the literature, but I will do it. But what to take out? Whatever it is, it will be a successful deletion, because isn't that the point of this exercise?
4. This blog. I slacked off - my idea of a successful blogger is one that posts once a week. I haven't posted in almost three. Shame on me. Now that I've put it in writing, visualized my success, it will come true!
   

That's all I can think of for now. I will most likely visualize my professional success here in this blog and keep my personal successes to myself. Unless Vince Vaughn realizes that I am, in fact, the love of his life, knocks on my door, and we live happily ever after. Then I'm telling the whole damn world.