Visualize In Order To See The Way To Your Goal
A Guest Post By Armen Shirvanian – Armen is a professional blogger and writes for Timeless Information on topics including mindset development, social interaction, communication, and competition.
At this time, with respect to a goal you are working on, you are here, and the goal is there. Between you and the goal is a path, or various paths, that you have to take before you get there. In the same way that I had to wind my way through a mountain trail path for 5.5 miles to get near the top of a mountain recently, you are going to need to wind your way to your goal by taking multiple actions. How do you figure out which actions you need to take?
Let Your Mind Do The Work
What you want to do is to let your mind solve the problem of lighting up the path to your goal. You need to disconnect from other activities for a period of time, and imagine yourself either where you are with relation to your goal, or already at your goal and looking back, and your mind will fill in the pieces of what you need to do. If your vision is to rent office space in a local building to start your own face-to-face type company, you can imagine yourself already at the office, glad about getting there. Then you will see what the details of your vision are, like that you will need rent money, or that you will need to get your qualifications that you will put on the wall.
You Will See The Steps To Take
Regardless of what your vision is, you get a better idea of what the steps are to get there if you stop and visualize yourself getting there. Maybe then your mind will tell you that you will need to hurry and focus before a certain deadline, or that you need to talk to a certain person to get help from them, or that you need to practice something for the next three weeks. These all have a sense of urgency to them, but this urgency isn’t palpable until you visualize the process or result, which puts your mind into a state where you can’t ignore the reality involved in building your dream or making a step towards a goal of yours.
This Is A Mindset Development
Making the choice to visualize as described here is an upgrade from not doing so, because it brings your mind right in line with the reality it knows. It doesn’t work to visualize in some perceived reality, because then it will feel like fantasizing or daydreaming. Real visualization goes smoothly as long as you take the reality you gain from it and act on it right away. If you visualize and don’t take action on what you gained, it might as well be worse than not having visualized at all.
Here is the main process:
- disconnect from other activities and spend some time visualizing your desired state or goal
- accept any realistic difficulties you see in the process of getting there
- take a couple of pieces of actionable information from your thinking and write down a plan to work on them
- carry out what you can handle
- repeat as desired along the way to your goal
yes, absolutely! it’s my way to motivate myself by visualize the goal and how to achieve it, make a planning and do it, dont forget to evaluate and ask your friends or experts to have a better results
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Armen Shirvanian Reply:
October 13th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
@yoan, Good point there sir. It always helps to talk to someone else who knows more, or who wants to help, because those rare individuals speed up handling each of the steps to take. I like it when I find those rare supportive people.
Thanks for your thoughts.
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Hypnotic Blogger Reply:
October 13th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
@yoan, I agree with Armen, Yoan. You have brought up a solid point here. Having friends as a sounding board helps in many ways.
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This is why I find it extremely helpful to get in the shower every day and think about my goals. By standing there you will disconnect the outside world and dedicate yourself 100 percent to your goal.
Unfortunately you can’t write down your thoughts, but hopefully you will remember them until you get in front of a piece of paper.
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Armen Shirvanian Reply:
October 12th, 2009 at 7:20 am
@Stefan, I think that is a smart move. I will remember to do that. I have done that at times in the shower, but don’t do it regularly. I think it will work out great. The few times I have done it, I jumped out and wrote things down, and was booming and ready to go.
Thanks for bringing up this practical and effective example.
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Hypnotic Blogger Reply:
October 13th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
@Stefan, Hey Stefan, Armen, probably a bath would be good too. Jotting down your thoughts on an empty book while soaking away in the tub. Hmm..
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