On his post entitled 33 Rules to Boost Your Productivity, Steve Pavlina included this one:
Resonance. Visualize your goal as already accomplished. Put yourself into a state of actually being there. Make it real in your mind, and you’ll soon see it in your reality.
The first thing that jumped to mind is that I write articles here as though I am talking to great numbers of people. I see my audience as larger than the eye can see, and so I write in that fashion. I don’t write articles here as though I am talking to some two specific people. It is beneficial to think bigger and have bigger images in your mind.
People Help You When They See You Off-balance
One of the key points about why you should act like you already are where you want to be is that people will take notice and help you out if possible. When there is a point of separation between how you are currently acting and producing, and the accolades or rewards you are getting, people will take notice because a sense of fairness is part of our innate thinking. We want to see a person that does a certain amount of work getting a certain amount of results, because we can see ourselves in their position. Therefore, provide the material that you see yourself providing when you are more experienced, and you will skip some levels.
Small Issues Get Out Of Your Way Quicker
If you focus on acting as though you have reached your goal, and can act and produce as though you are in a state of fulfillment, you will be far less likely to get caught up in dealing with small issues, or getting frustrated with minor comments made by others. A person who has achieved their goal of becoming a small business owner would not be concerned with a small complaint from a customer or new fee increase. Those come with the territory, and have to be able to be handled before the goal will work out.
The Goal Comes To You When You No Longer Are Surprised It Will Come
It is often the case that by the time you reach a goal you had in mind, it is not something that is a surprise or unexpected. Near the reaching of a goal, you can feel that you are already on the way there. Until you get this feeling, the goal will be out of your reach. You need to get into the habit of thinking that it will not be a surprise at all when the goal is shown and the rewards related to it show up. You can then accept what arrives.
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It is similar to smiling to positively affect your mood. You have to act the par. If you want to attain something greater than what you are or have then you have step up to the challenge. I might be as simple as embodying the qualities you need to exude to bring your dreams to fruition.
It’s not acting as much as it is conscious self development. Realizing the qualities you want, and understanding that you need to exceed a current sate of mind to achieve your aspiration is the only way to get to our goals.
Matt: You’ve got a definitive statement at the end there. It just might be the only way to get to our goals. If we don’t have an image of what we are looking for, when we get there, we won’t know we got there. Also, we wouldn’t be prepared to maintain it.
Smiling when you haven’t smiled in a while does have a positive effect, because it gets the mind thinking about your current emotional state.
Thanks for your thoughts.
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