Visualization for Weight Loss -The Gabriel Method

Introduction

financial obligations with what we in the business call the “golden handcuffs.” I was locked into my life, and I was not get- ting out any time soon. But as I started listening closely to my body, I was finally able to hear my heart. For the first time, I could hear my heart telling me I was suffocating. But because I had no plan in mind, all I could do was listen and dream. Even though I did not have the courage or the strength to change my life, it was destined to change dramatically. A month after my realization, I was supposed to fly to San Francisco for what had the potential to be one of the most important business meetings of my life. I was to meet with a major brokerage company to discuss with them the prospect of buying the business I had built. It was a day that could change my life forever. This meeting had the potential to make all my dreams come true. Anytime I flew to San Francisco I always chose a non-stop flight from Newark Airport. However, on this particular occa- sion, my business partner chose to save one hundred and fifty dollars, and booked me on a cheaper but much more inconven- ient flight that was leaving in the afternoon from La Guardia Air- port in New York. I didn’t exactly relish the thought of having to negotiate two hours of traffic to get to La Guardia, spend three hundred dollars in parking, and endure a two-hour stopover in Cincinnati just to save one hundred and fifty dollars. Normally I would have done something about it, but something told me to just let it go, and so I did. In the end, I never took that flight because the airport was closed on September 11, 2001, so I never flew to San Francisco for that business meeting. But the flight I originally wanted to take took off before the airports shut down. It was United Air- lines Flight 93, already in the air by the time the first plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. The passengers on Flight 93 had time to hear about that. They had time to call their hus- bands and wives from their cell phones, to tell them how much they loved them and how much they meant to them, before they took charge of the situation and forced the highjackers to

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