Energize Your Goals
To energize the goals that need to come first when building your ideal life, it helps to give them additional energy.
Step #50: Creative Visualization
One way of energizing your goals is through creative visualization. Not only does visualizing what you want help energize your goals, it can help you get in touch with your feelings about them.
When you visualize your goal, engage all your senses as well as your emotions. To do this, it helps to find a quite place during a time when you won’t be interrupted. Once you’re relaxed, close your eyes and visualize yourself achieving your goal.
Instead of watching yourself perform, visualize yourself as part of the action. If you’d like to be in a bigger home, don’t just visualize the home, visualize yourself in the home. What would it look, feel, sound, and smell like? What would the carpet feel like? What would the kitchen smell like? Add as many ordinary details as possible, such as where you’d put the toaster and where the outlets will be in the bedroom.
The more senses you can involve in the process the more real it will seem. Once you’re relaxed and visualizing your goals, it also helps to give them even more power by adding positive affirmations (see next step).
Step #51: Create Positive Affirmations
Creating positive affirmations can energize your goals by actually sending new messages to your subconscious about what you want.
Our lives are guided more by our beliefs than our goals, and the way we talk to ourselves reflects that. For example, if your goal is to build savings and you have the subconscious belief that it’s impossible to stop the paycheck to paycheck cycle, you’ll never get ahead. If your goal is to lose weight and you have the underlying belief that you can’t break your addiction to junk food, it’s time to come up with something new to tell yourself.
Don’t let your self-defeating beliefs sabotage your dreams. Instead, replace the negative talk with a positive statement. In doing so, you’ll create a new pattern of thinking that will influence your subconscious mind and begin to manifest positive changes in your life.
1. Phrase your affirmations in the present tense
2. Use positive language
3. Make sure they’re believable to you – state your affirmation in a form that is credible and doesn’t create feelings of doubt
Some examples of positive affirmations:
“I am building up savings and being responsible with my money.” (notice how this affirmation doesn’t use the word debt, which can have a negative connotation?)
“I am healthy and fit.” (instead of focusing on the weight loss, you’re focusing on something positive in the present)
More examples:
YouTube - Virtual Vision Board - Positive Affirmations
Assignment: Imagine every aspect of achieving your goal through creative visualization. Become aware of the negative thoughts that may be sabotaging your dreams. Create new positive affirmations that support your goals.
Steps #50 & #51: Energize Your Goals
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