Take control of your life and focus on the vision you desire.

Joy offered George an incredible opportunity, but it wasn’t until his wife and boss told him he was poised to lose everything that he was ready to accept it. Once he did, he committed to learning Joy’s ten rules for a new life. The first rule was: become the driver of your own bus and take back control.

Here’s how his journey began.

As George boarded the bus for another day at the office, Joy told him that people are often unhappy because they have no say in their lives. George immediately understood what she meant. After all, he felt trapped between conflicting expectations, like those of his boss and his wife. Not just that, but his life was full of events totally beyond his control, like the breakdown of his car.

Joy went on to say that, according to the philosophy of the energy bus, to truly change your life, you need to take back control, decide who you want to be and how. But before you do that, you need to know where you’re going.

That’s where the second rule comes in: with vision and focus, you can drive the bus in the direction you want.

To demonstrate this, Joy asked George to write down a vision for his personal life, one for his job and one for his family. George decided that he wanted to be happy again; he wanted to have a positive influence on his kids and for his wife to be happy. His primary goal at work was to have a successful product launch with his team.

Now all that was left was to achieve these goals. To help, Joy told George about the law of attraction.

According to this concept, all thoughts are magnetic, which means the things you think about will begin showing up in your life. Just take Olympic athletes, many of whom use the law of attraction by visualizing their best performances before entering a competition. Often this results in gold-medal wins. Realizing this powerful potential, George resolved to spend ten minutes a day thinking about his goals.