The saying that “you can do whatever you can put your mind to,” is true.
If you have read the success stories of countless men and women’s rise to the top, you would note that there is a lot of dreaming involved. Some took dreaming to a higher level.
Let’s take just one example for now, such as how Eva Longoria started her long and successful career with winning a simple beauty contest after experiencing failure the first time around.
By the way, there are as many great stories as there are people doing great things!
When Eva Longoria did not win the title crown in her first attempt at a beauty pageant, she set her mind to winning it the next year by working her hardest to immerse herself in becoming the next Miss Corpus Christi queen.
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She made it easy to visualize her winnig the crown. She lived and breathed getting the crown by watching videos over and over and immersing herself and basically focusing on being the queen that she knew she had to be.
She had what we all need to have to reach our own crowns: tenacity, focus, and the will to visualize. She had to, she had big dreams. And she still has. Winning that beauty pageant was only the first step to many great goals she had.
Visualizing your way to success needs commitment and focus.
You have to want your goal so bad that you are willing to do everything it takes to get there. You have to live and breathe your goal.
If this doesn’t excite you, you may have the wrong goals . . .
So first, get very clear and specific about your goal. Believe in it, commit to seeing it through to the moment you attain it and beyond.
There are plenty of stories of overweight people who would post pictures on their refrigerator of the people they would want to look like, and then worked their tails to make it happen.
Surround yourself with pictures of what you want to be, or what you want to attain; that way you can see your goal with crystal clarity.
Next, wake up every morning with your goal in mind. Spend some time right as you wake to enjoy the feeling you get from mastering your goals.
You may get distracted during the day but allow yourself to come back to your goals frequently.
Do not allow yourself to believe that your dreams are too far to reach. Believe instead that you are living your dreams right now. We can choose how to think. We can choose what to believe.
Just keep yourself focused on the goal, and nothing else. If you do stray, realize that you are human, and go back to focusing on your goal.
This is what you said you wanted, this is what you said was important to you. Invest some time and concentration into this.
Arm yourself with knowledge. Research your plan. If there is one thing that frustrates people and causes drifting, it will be the lack of knowledge during the chase.
Research. Do your preparation ahead of time. Opportunity is where chance and the prepared mind will meet. Put luck on your side.
Learn everything there is to learn about your goal. Use this knowledge as a base to progress on your path, and learn more as you go.
Once you have lined up your options in attaining a specific goal, choose the best path for you and stay the course.
You will run into roadblocks. This is just part of life. If something happens that you get frustrated with your chosen path, then strike out on your other options. This is time for Plan “B”.
Determine that you will keep at it until you see a path opening up, and you can see yourself progressing towards your goal. Visualize yourself succeeding and celebrating!
Keep on dreaming all the while taking these concrete steps towards your goals. Seize every opportunity that presents itself, that leads to your goals.
Remember that you only fail if you succumb to the temptation to quit. No mountain is too steep to climb. No journey is too difficult to finish.
We just have to put one foot in front of the other. Take one step at a time. Surely then, no goal will be impossible when we can see through to it’s completion.
Just live and breathe your goals, and visualize success. Actively pursue your dream. The pursuit is where the real joy is anyway. See you later . . .