Five Ways to Visualize Your Goals
Whatever your goal is -- riches, fame, success or, more modestly, contentment or satisfaction -- there is a school of thought that states you can achieve it by seeing it in your mind. There are methods to assist you in developing a mental picture that you can use to propel yourself to the result you desire.
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Short-Term Goals
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With practice you can develop the habit of examining your goals every day. Visualizing on a daily basis what you want to attain can help you achieve not only short-term goals but put you in the frame of mind to keep seeing those future achievements you desire. Get in the habit of repeating your goals to yourself daily, while walking or driving or in meditation. Once you achieve a short-term goal using this process, it makes it easier to go for the longer range items.
Long-Term Goals
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Sometimes long-term goals are more difficult to see in your head. In these instances you must involve your dreams and put them to work with practical visualization. Don't let daily aspirations consume you; keep part of your mind working toward the long haul. Let your imagination place you in realms of success but don't let it be just your imagination. Think of ways you can achieve your goals and keep those images in your mind. The brain is a miraculous organ and has plenty of room for the real, everyday scenarios as well as scenes from your future. Use your mind and imagination on a regular basis and you will see yourself where you want to be.
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Think Success
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Compose a mental image of what you want to be like, look like, act like; let your practical imagination paint pictures of you in successful situations, being exactly who you want to be and doing exactly what you want to do. These will become ingrained in your thinking and you will work toward realizing those images.
Envision a Specific Act
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If you want to excel at a certain act, motivate yourself by creating vivid images in your mind's eye of yourself performing that act. Actors have done it for years by probing their psyches for their "motivation" for a role, adopting a persona and becoming the character. Athletes spend many hours as children making the running catch, taking the perfect swing or swishing the basket for the winning goal. Singers feel the applause they will get when they hit the crescendo. Visualize these vividly and often and they could even enter your nighttime dreams.
Create Familiarity and Intimacy
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Become familiar with your visual images. Keep them close to you and develop an intimacy so they remain fixed in your head. If you want to play Carnegie Hall some day, learn its topography and picture yourself there; find a photo somewhere, in a book or online, from the stage looking out to the audience and plant your feet in the center of it, setting that image inside yourself. Familiarize yourself with the physical acts you may go through in achieving your goal. If you are a singer, in your mind sing the song you think you will sing to gain success; if you are a piano player, create that internal memory of playing the incredible piece that will bring an audience to tears.
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