People often search their whole lives to find what they’re looking for. How about starting ut with what you’re looking for instead?
To get where you want to go, what’s the first step? Figure out WHERE you want to go. Not generally or vaguely, but specifically. Clip pictures form magazines and put them in a binder that you review every day. And several times through the day, visualize your goals as reality.
Is it a bigger house? A nicer car? A wife or husband? Having an impact on others’ lives? Whatever it is, be clear about what you want before anything else.
A famous study of goals says that after 20 years, those 3% who had written goals had exceeded the earnings of the other 97% combined. Having your goals out in front of you is important.
But it’s not enough.
To achieve the goals, you have to have them in front of you constantly – at least daily. Review them before you go to bed and first thing when you get up. Go to sleep with the images of your goal and your subconscious will work on your attainment while you sleep. Starting the day looking at your goals will help you stay more focused during the day and will remind you of what you’re working for – and keep you on track.
One interesting revelation that hit me this week was that of WHY visualization is important. NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming) teaches that the way you hold things in your mind will determine the way that you act in the world. So if you have vivid pictures of your successes and your goals, and fuzzy pictures of setbacks and things you want to avoid, you will move toward your goals far faster and with more determination.
The mental images you project on your brain’s movie screen will determine where you go and how fast you’ll get there. Learn to hold images of your goals in your mind, make them clear, vivid, close, and moving, or put together a scrapbook and call it a Dream Journal or Someday Book. Then put a date on your dream and go get it.