Set yourself up for Success

As you can see visualization has been used by athletes, CEOs, and entertainers to achieve their biggest dreams. Successful people all over the world have acknowledged that visualization was their secret weapon for helping them reach their goals. While there are all sorts of ways to use visualization, today I want to give you 5 pro tips you can use to supercharge your success.   

How to Maximize Your Visualization Techniques

1. Write It Down

One of the easiest, and most powerful methods you can use to supercharge your visualization sessions is to write your dreams down on paper. Writing solidifies your success images in your mind.  

Don’t fall into the trap of “keeping goals in your head”. This will only give you a vague image to follow. Writing down your desires turns them into a compelling mission statement. Additionally, the process of writing helps you to think deeply about what you really want.

Think about your values, your secret desires, everything that would make your life the way you would like it to be and write them down.

2. Rewrite your Inner Dialog

Everyone has an inner voice that talks to them pretty much all the time. Your internal dialog is influenced by the messages you got in your childhood and messages you receive from the outside world now. Step back for a minute and listen to what your inner voice tells you. Is it encouraging? Or do you have a negative mindset that tells you you’ll never make it happen?

 If you find that most of your inner messages are negative, then use visualization to add positive messages to your inner dialog, visualizations that turn your inner voice into a pep talk.

3. Put Yourself in the Picture

To really supercharge your visualization sessions, see yourself looking the way you want to look, winning that scholarship or getting that promotion. Make your own success movies, written, directed by, and starring Successful You.

The beauty of creating visualizations is being able to tailor them to your own personal values and desires and to put you front and center. This will speed your path to success.  

4. Visualize a Timeline

When you are visualizing future success, it can be disheartening when you come back to the reality of the present. To supercharge your visualization sessions, instead of focusing on the gap between now and achieving your goals, build a pathway of short, medium, and long-term goals that show you the way. See yourself achieving your goals step-by-step. This will give you the encouragement and reinforcement to continue down the path to success.

5. Make it VERY Specific

To supercharge your visualization session, make sure you add in every detail. This is where the juicy reality is!

Don’t just imagine yourself looking good. See yourself stepping on the scales and it reads your desired weight. Or getting that promotion… imagine seeing yourself as you tell your partner and your friends that you got the job of your dreams. Hear their compliments and relish in how good that feels. Imagine every detail of your new office, your desk, your executive chair, the view from the picture windows.  Think about coming into the office, riding the elevator, walking down the corridor, and opening your office door. See your name on the door plaque. Make this image as real and detailed as you can. Or imagine yourself living in your dream home… in as much detail as possible.

Make Visualization a Part of Your Daily Life

One last thing to remember, in order for visualization to work, you need to practice it daily. Make some time in the morning when you get up, and right before you go to bed at night to imagine the life of your dreams.

Use these powerful tips to supercharge your visualization session to help you design and live the life you want!