What do you think of that statement? Do you believe it? Yes? No? Your personal belief is of course your own prerogative. For the record though – I believe that statement 100%.
So let me add credence to my belief– by telling you that EVERY successful person puts a BIG part their success down to their ability to visualize their success BEFORE it happened.
“Procrastination is the fear of success. Winners don’t live their lives in the future safely out of sight. They set goals in the specific, foreseeable future, which gives their everyday activities richness and purpose.”Read that again. “…they visualize their success BEFORE it happened…”
Put simply – this means dwelling on the end result. Of course you still have to TAKE ACTION- but taking action when you are fully confident of the result- puts you in a completely different ballpark.
But how do you dwell confidently on the end result?To create such a strong, clear vision, you need only release your abundant imagination. Make a vision so powerful that when you finally accomplish your
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goal, you have a sense of déjà vu – “haven’t I experienced this before?” Yes – you have – in your imagination a thousand times.
I use this power of envisioning
success in the production of
everything I begin. For example, I
saw myself having already
completed this eBook before I
began.
This ‘ thinking from the end’ attitude
will cause you to behave as if all you
want to create is already here.
Your inner speech is uniquely your own creation – and it’s responsible for attracting what you think about. And as it’s your own creation – you can choose whether your thoughts control you – or whether you control your thoughts.
This is commonly known as The Power of Attraction – and there are reams of books on this subject.But if I had to boil down the message it would be this: simply change your inner speech to what you intend the new circumstances of your life to be.
Imagine yourself to be - and you shall be.
Of course JUST envisioning success is not enough. Just thinking of a new car on your driveway will not make one appear. You have to TAKE ACTION too.
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“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail”?
But using this simple technique of clearly picturing and visualizing what you want – and then TAKING ACTION - will result in huge changes to your personal situation. But you need to do BOTH.
And let me quickly add that this envisioning success is not some mumbo jumbo: Fortune 500 companies train their sales people using these exact strategies.Jack Canfield the bestselling author of ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul’ said that envisioning success before it happened was the one thing that helped him stay motivated to achieve it.
Here are some more famous and not-so-famous real life examples of individuals who envisioned success before they got there – and the barriers they faced on route.
• ‘Nobody will watch a show about nothing...’ – what Jerry Seinfeld and cocreator Larry David were first told when they began to pitch Seinfeld.• ‘There’s no market for it. If there were, major airlines would already be offering it…’ – conclusion given to Fred Smith, founder of FEDEX.
• ‘People will rent videotapes, but they’ll never buy them…’ –opinion of media experts later proved wrong by Jane Fonda’s exercise tapes.
• ‘A global, twenty-four-hour news network will never work…’ – network executives’ response to Ted Turner’s plans for CNN.
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• ‘It’s a cutthroat business, you’ve got no chance of success…’ – accountant for Estee Lauder, founder of the multibillion dollar cosmetics empire.
• ‘You’re foolish to try and sell sparkling water in the land of Coca-Cola drinkers…’ – advice given to Gustave Leven by several consulting firms when hearing of his plans to launch Perrier in the US.
• ‘It’s a huge risk and it will never fly…’ – aeronautical engineers evaluation of Bill Lear’s design for a jet.• ‘Personal computers are a hobbyist fad...’ - prediction of IBM, Intel, HP and Atari.
My favorite:
• ‘The feedback is the lowest we’ve ever had, lower than women’s bowling, it just won’t work...’ – the BBC’s comments to Ricky Gervais after a test screening of The Office.
Practice thinking from the end.Just like Johnny Wilkinson did:
After the Rugby World Cup Final in 2003, Johnny Wilkinson was asked whether he was nervous when he received the ball, to execute his last second winning drop goal. His response:
“No. I’ve been here a million times before.” Create Your First Website by 3:45 This Afternoon Hit the delete button every time doubt