Visions

For each one of them, what would be your ideal life?
When you say "Personal development", what are the
thoughts that you would think, what are the qualities
you would have, what kind of character you would own?
Write your answers down.

What is your ideal life with your family? Write it
down.

Do the same thing with each one of the 7 areas.

Now take several minutes each day, ideally 10 minutes
to review and visualize these goals and dreams

2. The end of the movie

Here is a technique to use when you want to improve a
situation, make new habits or change your limiting
beliefs.

Imagine you go to a theater to see an exciting
adventure movie. You arrive at the theater ten minutes
before the earlier scheduled movie is over. Instead of
waiting in the lobby, you go into the theater, sit down
and watch the last ten minutes of the movie.

You see how the entire plot unfolds and how everything
turns out for the principal actors. You see the
problems resolved and what happens to everyone when the
movie ends.

Then, when the next showing begins, you go back and sit
through the entire movie from the beginning. Only this
time, instead of being caught up in the suspense and
drama of the unfolding plot, you relax and watch the
movie objectively. You take time to appreciate the
cinematography, the dialogue, the way that the scenes
are connected and how the plot unfolds and develops.

You are calm and relaxed. You are far less anxious or
emotional, than you would be if you had not already
seen the last ten minutes. Because you already know
how it ends.

3. The treasure map

Here's a technique you can use to aid in visualization.
You make a poster - say, the size of a travel poster -
and you put your goal or even a picture of yourself in
the middle of the poster. You then surround your
picture on the poster with pictures and clippings from
magazines and newspapers that are related to your goal.

Take time regularly to sit and look at that poster over
and over again. Feed your mind with the images. Let
your mind photograph all those words and pictures
consistent with the goal that you desire. Images of
affluence, pictures of the car that you want, the home
that you want, pictures that have amounts of money
written on them cut out from magazines and newspapers.
Anything that stimulates your subconscious mind by
imprinting on it a picture of what you desire starts to
move you rapidly toward the accomplishment of your goal
and starts to move your goal toward you.