THE RIGHT MENTAL TOOLS ARE The seeds for change
Having a larger, clear goal process is like planning and constructing a beautiful new home.
As part of the planning process and well before any action is taken, you must envision your desired outcome with as much clarity and
focus as possible. This step must come first. Do your research; get to know the exact look and feel of your end result. Obtaining books on
the subject helps give you insight into what you really like. As you compile information you gain clarity and emotional attachments to the features that resonate with your desires.
Once information is collected, sum up the end result and connect with it as best you can. See it in your mind as completed. Walk through
the home in your mind, drinking in the features, comfort, benefits and view. Project yourself into the future, enjoying the good feeling
of living in the home.
It does not matter if this project is ten months or ten years into your future; the goal here is clarity. If you know exactly what you want, you will naturally gravitate toward the how and the when, unless you change your focus. When you take one step closer to your dream, such as purchasing the property on which your dream home will be built or securing financing, your conviction that it is inevitable that the dreams will coalesce into reality and will become rock solid in your mind.
In this example, there thousands of action items that must be followed to ensure that the project goes as planned. When you have completed
your mental preparation, it creates flow and synergy, because you know exactly what you want, down to the last detail.
A similar, more basic example is an Indy NASCAR driver who desires victory. Often the positive thinking of driver is formed through a lifelong desire; that desire slowly manifests into an actual career.
When the driver was a child, the desire was a make-believe dream.
That dream grew with time, and the more the boy or girl built emotional attachment to the dream and stayed with it, the more circumstances came to fruition. As the goal focus changed to winning, the driver’s emotional attachment to the goal was the primary component to bring about the change.
Many negative elements could have derailed the envisioned success, such as lack of confidence or fear of any number of obstacles or events. This is when extra mental preparation in the process created a belief to shift the focus to the outcome and away from any negative influences.