“I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp in-focus picture of it in my head”. – Jack Nicklaus

The crowd goes quiet. Ernie Els stands over the ball. He tunes out all other distractions and focuses only on the task at hand. He knows the exact distance to the pin, the force and direction of the wind and exactly the position on the green where he plans to pitch the ball. He effortlessly makes his practice swing, then with the identical rhythm repeats and completes his shot. The ball pitches exactly where he planned and ends up 5 feet from the flag.

By now you must be thinking that I’ve gone mad and that I have delusions of becoming a golf columnist. Does visualisation work? The reason I have made this golfing analogy is to describe the absolute power of visualisation and how it can give you the focus, confidence and belief to achieve anything. During his pre-shot routine he visualised exactly how he would successfully execute the shot, and nine times out of ten, this is what materializes. Developing the ability to clearly visualise your goals and objectives in your mind’s eye is a very powerful tool in your efforts to attain optimum career and personal success. The effective use of visualisation activates your focus and enhances your performance. It is an exercise that helps you to create the future in advance. You mentally create a goal that you desire to occur in reality, and you use the power of your imagination to help you achieve the situation or results that you want.

Here are six steps to make visualisation work for you:

Define your goals with total clarity
The first step in effective goal setting is clarity. Be very clear about what you want and why you want it. This clarity gives you the power to be able to more effectively visualise your goal.

Write it down in great detail
Be absolutely clear of your purpose. List every detail of your goal that you can imagine. Use the exact words that describe what you desire.

Believe
The law of belief states that whatever you consistently believe in with emotion becomes your reality. Convert your beliefs into feelings of absolute certainty.

Regularly visualise your desired result
Visualise your goals as reality. Repeatedly play the movie of you achieving your goal already achieved on the screen of your mind. This will develop a strong conviction in your subconscious mind that your goals are attainable and it is only a matter of time before you achieve them. These positive thoughts and images that you hold in your mind are powerful. Make an effort to increase the frequency and length of time that you hold these powerful pictures in your mind.

Visualise each and every step to you successfully achieving your goal
Begin your visualisation by imagining the final result you wish to achieve. Work backwards from this goal and mentally create the sequence of steps needed to achieve your ultimate outcome. Visualise yourself taking each of these steps to ultimate success.

Ensure that your thoughts are always positive
All of our behaviour results from the thoughts that precede it. Be careful not to visualise negative or disempowering thoughts. We waste valuable time worrying about negative things that never happen. Remember that negative mental pictures that are fed to your subconscious mind will attract negative outcomes. Focus on the positive aspects of your goals. Positive thinking will always make you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Clear and positive visualisation is a powerful tool to successfully create the quality of life and career that you desire. Use this power from today and you will be amazed what happens.

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