Today I’ll share with you a life-changing technique that cost me thousands of dollars to learn and decades to understand.
Let me tell you about a skill set that you can activate every day that inundates your mind with confident power, facilitating the person you want to become.
Okay, calm your mind, get relaxed and peaceful and think about the person you want to be, with the qualities you want to embody.
Imagine what your:
Life would be like?
Where do you live?
Do you live in a house, an apartment, a townhouse, a tiny home?
How big is it? How many bedrooms? Do you have a sauna?
Do you live in the city? The country? The suburbs? By the ocean? In the mountains? In a different country?
What’s happening with your health?
Are you disease-free?
Are you a vegan, a fruitarian?
Do you exercise, how often?
What kind of exercise? Bodybuilding, Pilates, running?
Do you have hobbies?
Sewing, motorcycles, para-sailing?
Your standard of living?
$50K, $150K, $500K, a million a year?
Is your house paid for?
What kind of car do you drive? Do you have a driver?
Who are the people in your life?
Do you have a family? Are you married, have children – how many, nieces and nephews?
Career, Ministry, Retired, Volunteer work.
Do you travel? Where do you go, how often, with who, how do you get there?
Now, don’t edit yourself or be “realistic” when answering these questions. Go crazy, think of the most far-out their things you can, as if it was a fantasy that you could participate in – Because if you can think it, you can have it. Don’t forget the excitement you would feel in the dream.
Fun Fact: Completing this exercise is programing your subconscious with the new you.
One of the most powerful techniques to modify your self-image is visualization.
How you see yourself is who you become.
If you don’t put in the effort and time to create yourself, whatever influences you will create an image for you. If you watch a lot of TV and you don’t spend any time seeing yourself or what you want to do, you may not like the image that materializes.
Images are commanding, they:
Intensify your desires and strengthen your beliefs
Increase your willpower and build your persistence
There are four components of a visualization:
Frequency
Clarity
Intensity
Duration
Let’s briefly discuss each component.
1st Component
Frequency is how often you visualize an event, goal, or behavior. Frequency has a powerful impact on how you think, feel, and behave. People who accomplish extraordinary things continually visualize their desired results, thinking about what they want to achieve all the time and replaying the ideal image repeatedly, like re-watching a movie continuously on the screen in their minds. Interestingly, the number of times you replay the film in your mind indicates how much you want the event, goal, or behavior and, at the same time, intensifies your desire to have it and your belief that it’s available to you.
2nd Component
Clarity is the second component of visualization. Clarity is how precise you see in your imagination - the detail and vividness. There is a direct relationship between how clearly you see a desired goal or result and how quickly it appears for you.
Think about when you thought about something you wanted, and your initial thoughts were vague and fuzzy. But the more you thought about it, the clearer and more detailed the image became. Eventually,