Would you expect to find a husband at a luncheon attended by 1500 women and 5 men?
Especially if the only man sitting at your table is deep in grief for his wife, who died just a few months before?
Probably not. But then there’s a nudge from your subconscious. Something about this man – yes, we met a few times when we were teenagers, thirty-eight years ago!
Hunting Treasure in Amsterdam
You chat, and then the two of you don’t see each other for another six weeks; but when you do, it takes one evening of conversation for you both to fall head over heels in love.
Unlikely? Sure.
But that’s the way life brought us together. Scout’s honor.
The whole thing seemed so improbable to us that it took a few days for Paul to admit that he was in love, and Carol was completely surprised to hear herself telling a friend, “I met the man I’m going to marry.”
But is the improbable really unlikely?
Living with Unpredictability
If you take a look at how your life has turned out (so far), you’ll find it’s filled with events that could easily have gone another way.
Statistically speaking, your parents were vastly more likely to meet and marry other people, rather than each other. If they had – there’s no you! Unpredictable events and remarkable coincidences happen all the time, and they make a lot of things happen. We’ll bet that every one of the world’s 6 billion people has a least one story of a “one-in-a-million” coincidence — which makes them pretty common.
Even though the improbable is common, and the unpredictable shapes our lives, most people go through life trying to foresee what’s probably going to happen and working hard to make life predictable.
Treasure Hunters do that, too, but we also train ourselves to keep an eye peeled for the unpredictable treasures that life is likely to drop in our path.
Want to find some predictably unpredictable treasures of your own? These two short Treasure Hunts you can go on right now will help you to start seeing treasure all over the place.
There’s treasure in your life
Can you see it?
If you’re not seeing treasure everywhere
maybe you could turn up the brightness control on your life.
Welcome to the new Treasure Hunt website. We’ve put a bunch of treasures here — lots of free stuff to expand your curiosity and let you move through time in a way that’s natural, easy and delightful for you.
Look around. Poke in the corners of the site. There are Treasure Hunts you can do in a few minutes, and Treasure Hunts you could do for the rest of the week or the rest of your life.
You get to choose. (more…)
This two-minute Treasure Hunt will help open up your capacity to want freely–like a kid in a toy store. This has nothing to do with having, or needing. It’s simply a way for the brain to imagine and create a new future. It’s a critical skill of the Treasure Hunter.
Read each step, and then follow the instructions with your eyes closed.
Step One
Think of a store you really like.
Imagine that you’re walking through the store. Imagine some of the things you may see there.
Pick something–anything–and say to yourself:
I want that!
Say it like an excited, happy little kid in a toy store. Be excited like that little kid.
Step Two
Now, imagine that you have what you want. You got it!
See it in your mind’s eye.
Feel the emotions of having it.
If you can, also do this as you doze off to sleep, and as you wake up tomorrow morning.
Happy Hunting!
Ever get stuck in a swamp?
For Treasure Hunters, a swamp is that place that you don’t like, didn’t want to go to, and land in over and over. Some examples of swamps are:
- Ending up in that same kind of job situation. Again!
- Being in that same kind of unfulfilling relationship. Again!
- Failing at the new diet. Again!
- Getting into the same fight with someone you care about. Again!
- Racking up the credit card bills and getting angry with yourself. Again!
- Having way too much to do and handle. Again!
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What an empty hold looks like
What do pirates spend most of their time doing at sea?
They swab the decks.
And what do they do when back in port?
They empty out the hold.
If they didn’t swab the decks, and keep things ship-shape all of the time, then sailing around would be a lot more difficult.
And if they didn’t empty out the holds when they got to port–selling the treasure they’ve plundered and getting rid of all the empty barrels–they wouldn’t have room for any new treasures. Or rum! (more…)
This is a favorite of many Treasure Hunters. It can quickly create a whole new relationship to the future. There are two versions, one that will take just a few minutes, and a longer one that you can spend up to a few hours doing.
Before doing this, we suggest you spend a few minutes to read about Matt, Isaac Newton, and the Master Plan.
Quick Version (Three to five minutes)
Choose something you see in your future.
It can be in any part of your life–family, career, health, finance, where you live, travel, a hobby . . . anything.
Close your eyes and imagine going somewhere completely different. If you plan on having a million dollars in the bank, you could imagine having five million. Or having nothing, but living on a tropical island running a little bar.
What other ways could the future look? How might you get there?
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This could not be simpler!
Yo Ho Ho!