Achievement Management:

Setting Your Goals

Creative Visualization

Creating a Clear Image, Idea or Feeling Sense of Your Goal

"If you can dream it, you can do it." – Walt Disney

"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." – Albert Einstein

Why Creative Visualization?

Creative visualization helps you use your natural creative imagination in a more conscious way to create a clear image, idea or feeling sense of what you really want and to achieve your goal by focusing constantly on it and giving it your positive energy until it becomes objective reality.

Take a few minutes right now to achieve your goals in your mind. Imagine a life that is exactly as you want it. What would you do each day? With whom would you do it? Nothing is too crazy or ambitious. A few seconds is all it takes to put you in a state of excitement and enthusiasm. If you can see your goal in your mind, you can make it a reality. Visualization is the first step to bringing a dream to life. If you can see yourself happy, successful, healthy and loving life, you can make it happen. The first step is to visualize it.⁴

5 Rules of Self-motivation

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 Case in Point  Tom Watson, the Founder of IBM

Tom Watson, the founder of IBM, once described his secret to the unbelievable success he helped to create. The IBM you see today began from one simple technique. It is something you and I can do at any place and time. The same method Tom Watson used to grow IBM into a billion-dollar enterprise is available to you.⁴

He saw a picture in his mind. Before his company began operating, he knew exactly what it would look like when it was complete. The picture in his mind was as vivid and clear as the words you see on the screen in front of you.

He could see the offices, the machines, the employees working busily accomplishing goals and setting new standards. He could see the satisfied customers as they shook hands with his associates. Tom Watson could see the office he would work from making vital decisions to help his dream progress.

Tom Watson knew exactly what he was going to create. It was already real to him, he simply had to show the rest of the world what was in his mind. And it all began as a picture, a visualization.

Your Intention

Your intention determines how successfully creative visualization will work for you in any given situation. Your intention is a synergistic combination of three elements¹:

1. Desire. You must have a true desire to have or create that which you have chosen to visualize.

2. Belief. The more you believe in your chosen goal and the possibility of attaining it, the more certain you will be to do so.

3. Acceptance. You must be willing to accept and have that which you are seeking.

The clearer and stronger your intention, the more quickly and easily your creative visualization will work.

The Power of Positive Beliefs

What you create through your thoughts is a belief system, and that belief system is ultimately what determines whether you live a successful life. The key to changing your belief system is changing your thoughts.

A successful man is "constantly picturing to himself the success of his undertakings and he is backing up his vision by his efforts. By clinging to his vision, by vigorous resolution and persistent, determined endeavor he is continually making himself a powerful magnet to draw his own to him. Consciously or unconsciously, he is using the divine intelligence or force by the use of which every human being may mold himself and his environment according to the pattern in his mind."³

References:

1. Creative Visualization, Shakti Gawain

2. As a Man of Thinketh, Vic Johnson

3. How To Get What You Want, Orison Swett Marden

4. Motivation123, Jason Gracia

5. Master Creative Visualization, Steve G. Jones