February 25, 2024: Visualize Your Goals

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When people visualize anything, it makes it much more likely for them to make it a reality. They see the vision in their heads and then take steps to make it happen. This week, we’re going to talk about how you can use some simple methods to visualize your goals.

Visualization is how Thomas Edison improved the lightbulb (he didn’t invent it as many believe). Edison had a vision and stopped at nothing to see it through. Steve Jobs was another visionary, one who pictured how his products could help improve peoples’ lives.

Visualizing your goals carries through on this same concept. You paint a picture of what you would like accomplished by a certain period. When you have that picture, you can determine what is necessary to implement it. Once you break down the steps to accomplish your goals, you can use other visualization tools to help you manage those steps.

Visualization Methods

If you’re a visual type of person, you might like to create a vision board. That is usually a cork board where you place things which help you piece together a problem and help with possible solutions. As you come across other items for your vision board, you can choose where to put them and decide whether you need to remove something already on the board. There are no rules here.

Using a mind map is helpful to people when trying to brainstorm. You can use dedicated software, or you can just use sheets of paper. The concept is to start in the middle of the mindmap with a broad idea of the main thing you want to accomplish, like “eat healthier.” Then, you break down that main thing and draw out from the central area. For example, you could branch off from our example of “eat healthier” with “cook at home,” “track food,” or “eat 5 servings of produce.” Continue to branch out from these ideas and get more and more granular. It helps you to see the whole plan from a bird’s eye view and makes brainstorming easier. This concept doesn’t work for everyone. But, people who use them swear by them.

Give visualization a try. You can take it further with a vision board or mind map, or just write things down in a journal. Experiment to see what resonates with you. It’s an iterative process. The key is to not get caught up in the process itself. Whatever means you use to visualize your goals, you need to make sure you track the progress. Otherwise, you are simply going through the motions, and you won’t accomplish much.

Want to learn how to visualize your goals in a simple way? I have a recorded class on it! Click here to check it out.​

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Kelly

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