While most high achievers are buzzing around trying to learn AI, they’re leaving the most valuable tool on the table – the power of our minds to cultivate energy.
Focusing on your goals – visualizing them – is one of the oldest tools in the book, but few people use it.
Want it all harder, better, faster, stronger? Here’s how a visualization practice helps:
- It helps your ego feel safer in the unknown. When we try a new direction, we face an untold number of unknowns, which is triggering for most people. It’s hard to overcome, but visualizing daily can help, alongside dismantling your limiting beliefs about what’s possible for you.
- It releases attachment. You know how, when you’re not trying, it works, but when you try, it stops working? That’s because you got attached to the result. You “got in your head.” Visualizing gives us the feeling of already having what we want, which makes us less dependent on actually getting it.
- It sparks new ideas. When you visualize having the thing you want, you get ideas from the perspective of already having it. These ideas tend to shortcut the path to success because they’re coming from the vantage point of the finish line.
- It accelerates progress. This might feel ‘woo-woo’, but visualizing attunes your energy to your desired result, which makes you an energetic match for it. Picture yourself working in sweats versus working with a great outfit and a fresh shave. One has a better vibe, right? Even if nothing else changed, the simple act of getting dressed for the day produces better results. (something I still have to tell myself some days – ha!)
If you want to experiment and see if this tool is right for you, here’s how to try it:
- Set a timer for 3:30 minutes.
- Find a comfortable seat, ideally outside if the weather allows. Close your eyes.
- Take a few deep breaths from your belly to calm your nervous system.
- Start picturing your desired outcome – see yourself having the new job, or pivoting your career, etc.
- What is that version of you feeling? Thinking? Wearing? Doing? How are they being with themselves and others?
- Let yourself wander deeper into the vision, really taking in the experience of having the desired outcome now.
- When the timer goes off, pause, enjoy the good feelings, and then write down any ideas that came to mind.
I hope you enjoy this! If ‘mental movies’ are harder for you, try journaling instead.
Have a super week!
Kit
