Goal Setting, Part 3 of 3, Visualizing Your Goals
This article is the third in a series. If you have not read the first two, you might want to start with those as a point of reference. This exercise, once mastered and done on a consistent basis will bring your goals and dreams into your reality at a much faster rate.
You’ll want to work with your goals until you are familiar with them item by item. Its not always important to know word by word what you have written, but you must know the concepts one by one. Once you’ve reached that point, you’ll want to move to this step.
Get in a comfortable position in a place where you won’t be disturbed for ten or fifteen minutes. Keep your goal cards with you just in case you need them as a reference. Close your eyes and relax. Now start to picture your goals, one at a time. You’ll be watching a “movie” of your goals actually happening. As you watch this happening on the theater screen of your mind, also feel as if it were truly happening. Run the movie as if each goal on your first card has already taken place, for example:
Its Wednesday, December 31, 20__ and you’re walking toward the entrance of the your bank, it’s a wonderful day, with a slight breeze, beautiful blue sky with a few puffy clouds. You’re entering the lobby now, and as you start across the lobby toward the customer service representative, you can smell the fresh brewed coffee. You make a deposit to your money market account, and the representative hands you your receipt with the date and the balance showing just over $50,000. What an exhilarating feeling.
You picture the new computer that you bought for your office (remember everything is “as if” its already occurred). You remember back to the day when you purchased it and how helpful and friendly everyone at the electronics store was. You remember how easy it was to set it up and get it up and running. And you remember how great it felt to pay for it in full the day of purchase. Follow this process for each of the goals which you have on your goal card.
Now take a couple of deep breaths to enjoy this feeling. As you do these visualization exercises you’ll want to feel as many senses - what do you see, feel, taste, hear, smell, - as possible. Now move on to your next goal card and repeat the process. Be certain to take a couple of relaxing breaths in between each and let the wonderful feeling from each settle in before moving on. When you have completed this exercise with each of your goal cards, you will have pre-lived your goals, you will feel “as if” you have “lived” everything on your goal cards.
This is the last of a series of three articles about effective goal setting. Remember to use the S.M.A.R.T. method which I outlined in Part One, and to Bring Emotion to your goals as outlined in Part Two. When you follow those guidelines and add visualization exercises, you’ll be more likely to reach your goals.
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