This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1658. What Bungie Jumping taught me about visualization

by landmassiecottofreedipursu.com and I'm just a molecule very own personal narrator.

Welcome to Optimal Living Daily, OLD for short or old for shorter.

Where I narrate the best blogs I can get permission from covering productivity,

minimalism, personal development, all that fun stuff. And with that, let's get right to it and

start optimizing your life. What Bungie Jumping taught me about visualization

by landmassiecottofreedipursu.com. It's one-thirty in the afternoon and the weather's perfect.

The crew at Victoria Falls Bungie have just trapped me in and they've done all the necessary

safety checks to ensure I'm good to go. They're now helping me move to the edge of the platform

because my ankles are secured with tight straps around two thick layers of folded towels

to protect my legs from the jarring they're about to receive. My toes are over the edge.

I look out over the Zimbesi River and then I hear it. Three, two, one, Bungie.

I jump off the platform with a grin on my face and start screaming, woohoo! I take it all in,

my initial weightlessness, my rate of acceleration, the beauty of the cliff side,

the rushing water below and finally the deceleration as the Bungie saves me from a much shorter

life than I would like. I bounce up and down another half-dozen times before the experience comes

to an end. Is the best $157 I've ever spent? But not just because of the Bungie Jump,

what was even more valuable was the lesson I learned in preparing for this experience.

One day earlier, on the morning of August 22nd, my travel buddy Michelle informed me that

due to a tight travel schedule, I'd be jumping on August 23rd, not August 24th, as I'd initially

prepared for. I didn't say anything at the time, but it didn't sit well with me at all.

Up to that point, I'd been confident. I'd played out the day in my mind for weeks and I felt

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