Have you ever had a big plan, and on some level you felt like it was already done?

I'm looking at our work-in-progress that I call The Farm.

Out on the flat, gravel area where the previous owner parked his bulldozers, I see an outdoor kitchen with a brick pizza oven shaped like an igloo.

In the barn that's now cluttered with lumber and bird droppings, I see people sitting in a circle, doing workshops and manifesting their greatest dreams.

On the "wild acre" that harbors thorns and brambles, I see small guest cabins strategically placed around islands of native wildflowers that provide habitat and food for birds, butterflies, and pollinators.

All these transformations feel like they've already happened. I'm just here to give them physical form.

If I think too hard about the labor involved, or crunch the numbers and wonder how I'll pay for it all, it seems impossible. But if I just see it and calmly get to work, it becomes inevitable.

I know it's inevitable because this has happened before.

The trouble is, it's easy to make the unimportant things inevitable, and the dreams become "someday."

Let me explain.

Today you're going to eat something, unless you're on a fast. You'll go to the bathroom a few times. You'll brush your teeth. These things are inevitable. You can easily list have a dozen other things that are inevitable.

One level out, there are plans. Since it's raining and I can't work outside today, I'm probably going to fix the light switch in the bathroom. You have errands your going to run, chores you're going to do.

Plans aren't inevitable. Something unexpected may come up. You might get distracted. There could be a catastrophic emergency. But if everything goes more or less normally today, you'll probably do what you planned to do. These things are probable. You'll probably do them today.

One level further out are the dreams and visions. These are the things you'll do "someday." The problem with "someday" is it keeps things from being inevitable, or even probable.

Your "someday" plans are possible. But the merely possible stuff is too far away from you, and rarely gets done.

This is tragic, because your grand dreams and visions that are possible are also far more important that most of the probably and inevitable things.

So, the trick is to turn the possible into the probable and inevitable. How do you do this?

Well, part of it is simply thinking about it a lot. When you're constantly thinking about starting a new business, writing a novel, or moving to Thailand, you keep it on the radar. The Reticular Activating System in your brain will start to see opportunities for you. This is the neuroscientist's explanation of vision boards.

But there's more to it than that. To make something inevitable, you need to feel it in your body. The easiest way to do this is to do something tangible every day.

Now you're not just thinking and dreaming about what's possible, you're literally doing it.

What are some of your dreams and visions? What could you do today to make one of them possible, and eventually inevitable?

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Now that you’re committed to the inevitable, give yourself a physical object to remind yourself. This is your talisman.

Your talisman could be a rock, a coin, a tool, a special coffee mug or almost anything that holds meaning for you and gives you the sense of already achieving what you believe in.

If you can’t think of something, that’s good news, because your talisman will show up for you sometime soon. You just have to be open to it.

A year before I moved to Italy, I found a framed map of Italy at a yard sale. This became my talisman.