You can think of visualization as being like the director of your own movie. You are writing the movie of your life. What is it going to look like? You get to decide what you’re going to do and accomplish and how long it’s going to take you to accomplish those things. Your job is to visualize and picture exactly what you want.

We all get 24 hours in a day. Your 24 hours are the exact same as that of the people you admire and want to emulate. So, you need to decide how to better emulate their life, choices, and habits. Use visualization to move your life closer to what theirs is like.

That doesn’t come naturally to everyone. Other people seem so much better organized and prepared. Other people seem to have been given so much more— better opportunities, more money, and so on. Other people seem to be in such a better place in life. How can you compete with your own life movie script?

You can’t compete— not with that defeatist thinking. What you can do is decide that you’re going to more closely emulate their movie. You’re going to visualize your way to the kind of success they have and the kind of success you wish you had.

If you hadn’t guessed by this point, I get a lot of my inspiration from other people. It’s really inspiring for me to read rags-to-riches type stories. It’s extremely motivating for me to learn that someone wasn’t better or smarter than me— they simply took different steps in a different order, as well as more steps, and didn’t let their motivation wane. I can do that. I’ve done that. Now I’m the one getting emails from people telling me that I’m the inspiring and motivational story they look up to. I have to tell you— I never thought that would happen.

But it did happen and it does happen. It’s because I changed my own storyline. It’s because I changed the movie of my life. Part of that was through visualization. I saw that my life wasn’t anywhere near where I wanted it to be. That wasn’t acceptable to me. That wasn’t how I wanted my life to go. So, I fixed it.

I created pictures in my mind of where I should and would be. I ran movies in my head where I was happier and more successful. That $200 sticky note that I put on my computer printer which was right next to my monitor where I could see that note out of the corner of my eye constantly, before I was earning more money in my business became imprinted in my brain.

Now, you have to decide what’s going to become imprinted in your brain. What is your legacy? Where do you see yourself in 5 years? Heck, where do you see yourself a month from now? You can re-write your story by changing your daily habits, and you can do it quickly.

The things you do every day add up to the things you do every year. The things you do every year add up to the things that tell the tale of your life. If you can change the things you do every day, you can change your life story. You’re writing the book, you’re making the movie. Change your habits; change your life.

Now’s the time to change your movie. You have to re-write your story. The exciting thing is that it can be whatever you want it to be. You just have to put it in your mind and see it there. You need to see the pictures you want to see in your mind. Get your own sticky notes and write your goals on them and have them imprinted in your mind. Do whatever you need to do to change your story.

Visualization Is Not Daydreaming

I want to make it very clear that when I talk about visualization, I’m not talking about daydreaming. Daydreaming can tell you a lot about yourself. It can also be a massive waste of time and a byproduct of procrastination.

Visualization is different because it’s deliberate. You are visualizing certain habits and goal achievements for a particular reason. Daydreaming is not deliberate. Mostly, there isn’t an end-goal there for the daydreamer—it’s just something that happens.

I’m not saying it’s not good to daydream sometimes… quite the opposite.