What Is Goal Visualization?
Visualization is a simple yet powerful practice entrepreneurs can use to drastically improve their rate of success. In a visualization, you will use your imagination to play out events you want to happen in your life (business goals, public speeches, etc.) in so much vividness that it will seem as if they're part of your reality today. Many influential business leaders from Andrew Carnegie to Steve Jobs have used visualization to realize their future.
This short guide will teach you the basics to get started.
Quick intro
The human mind has a tendency to view uncertainty of the future with negative, fear-based thoughts. Perhaps you have thought about the reasons something might not work out, and placed your thought energy on avoiding that outcome. This mentality is in opposition to focusing on why things will most definitely work out successfully.
Visualization will train your mind to think about your future with extreme positivity, and it will help you formulate a path to success using your intuition's route of least resistance. Those who follow the law of attraction believe that visualization helps those who practice it enter a mental state where they effortlessly begin to realize their visualizations too, almost by a force of nature. No matter what you believe, a daily visualization practice will help you rehearse your goals and overcome any emotional or physiological blocks that commonly hinder entrepreneurs.
Get ready to achieve your goals faster and easier.
Step 1: The basics of practicing visualization
Visualization exercises involve visualizing your current goals as having already been achieved, and living that life out as vividly as possible in your mind. You can practice visualization by closing your eyes, thinking about a goal you want to achieve, and then picturing scenes from your life with that goal achieved. Feel it as if it's real in the present moment. Notice small details of the scene you're in, such as the design and feeling of furniture in the room, the smell around you and the people who are there with you. Focus on experiencing the outcome, and don't worry about the process to getting there.
Step 2: Focus on the outcome, not the process to getting there
This is a key reason why visualization is so easy. When we're planning our future, most of us get stuck in the details on how to get there and lose sight of our goal. In fact, this process of thinking in a linear timeline often moves us into a goal we don't even want.
When practicing visualization, don't worry about how you'll achieve your goal, just focus on the outcome in as much detail as possible. Let's say you're building a business, you may focus on...
- How much revenue am I generating in X years? Who/where is it coming from?
- How many employees do I have then and what do they do?
- How do I feel now that my business is operating so successfully?
- What does my cool office space look like?
- What does my app or website look like?
- Watch how flawlessly my entire company is running without me stressing.
These are just a few examples, and your creativity will create all sorts of helpful visions on its own. The important part is that you make visualiation a daily practice for at least 5 minutes a day.
Step 3: Feel emotions while you visualize
In order for visualization exercises to successfully transform your neural pathways and physiology into the state needed to achieve your personal goals, you need to feel as much emotion as possible while you practice them. This does two things. First, it makes your visualizations feel more real and thereby convinces your mind that these goals are actually your most natural state. Second, it helps you uncover emotional blocks that lie in your physiology and literally rewires them so your body doesn't reject the success you're working towards.
I speak from personal experience and the experiences of many entrepreneurs I've advised when I tell you how often entrepreneurs push off their success because they're not ready to receive. Maybe you can even recognize a time in your own life where you said no and actively worked against your own success. Visualization helps us overcome these obstacles.
Step 4: Notice as much detail as possible
As you go deeper into every visualization, try to notice more new details about the experience you're having. You can start with details about the scenery around you. What does the room you're in look like? Feel any surfaces around you. Notice any particular scents you can smell. Maybe you can notice the birds chirping if you're outside or ocean waves if you're at the beach. These details help make your experience even more real and make your visualization practice more effective.
You can also go into detail about your business, if that's what you're visualizing. For instance, I like to visualize the design and functionality of my apps, the thoughts my users are having while they use it, and all aspects of the growth that's happening within my company as it expands.
Step 5: Start meditating
Last but certainly not least, you need to practice meditation. Real Buddhist meditation, not Deepak Chopra even though he's great too. This skill will help you connect with the fundamental source of consciousness so you can learn how to maneuver your own reality. You will also find yourself becoming more fulfilled with your life and everything around you. If you don't meditate already, you can learn more about it on my website here.
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Step 5: Start meditating
Last but certainly not least, you need to practice meditation. Real Buddhist meditation, not Deepak Chopra even though he's great too. This skill will help you connect with the fundamental source of consciousness so you can learn how to maneuver your own reality. You will also find yourself becoming more fulfilled with your life and everything around you. If you don't meditate already, you can learn more about it on my website here.
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