In a non-linear and relative world, each person is empowered to change the course and meaning of their life completely. That change only takes an ins… - Benjamin P. Hardy

growing up so poor that for a time his family lived in their Volkswagen van on a relative’s lawn, Jim Carrey believed in his future. Every night in the late 1980’s, Carrey would drive atop a large hill that looked down over Los Angeles and visualize directors valuing his work. At the time, he was a broke and struggling young comic. One night in 1990, while looking down on Los Angeles and dreaming of his future, Carrey wrote himself a check for $10 million and put in the notation line “for acting services rendered.” He dated the check for Thanksgiving 1995 and stuck it in his wallet. He gave himself five years. And just before Thanksgiving of 1995, he got paid $10 million for Dumb and Dumber.

Start asking, and you’ll start receiving. It’s startling how fast you’ll get what you want once you directly ask.

In The Big Leap, Dr. Gay Hendricks explains these two models as Newtonian Time versus Einstein Time, Einstein time assumes you are where time comes from. You can make as much of it as you want. Newtonian times, assumes there’s a scarcity of time, which leads to an uncomfortable feeling of time urgency inside us. And we think that what is “out there” is causing the feelings “in here.”25