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If You Can’t See It, You Can’t Be It

...speaker, writing books, and keeping my marriage together. These skills, habits, and techniques are often called visioning, imagery, and visualization. They have a power for change, improvement, and energy creation that we’re only beginning to understand. Since fear and pessimism are so easy to give in to, we seem to...

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What Lies Ahead?

...chance. But there is one prediction method that’s eerily accurate. It’s often called imagery, visioning, or self-fulfilling prophecy. We foresee our preferred future and then make it so. Psychology, science, medicine, sports, and other fields are just beginning to tap into this incredible life force. This is the where my...

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Team Building Lessons from the Wisdom of the Hive

Management is about facts, analysis, and issues of the head. Leadership is about intuition, values, and issues of the heart. Logic is the language of management. Imagery is the language of leadership. Imagery is fuelled by metaphors, parables, analogies, stories, and examples. It’s how we’ve learned from each other and...

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Use the Force and Foretell Your Future

...community, spiritual, and social lives. It’s eerie (and inspiring) to look back at all these notes and their accuracy in “foretelling the future.” Never mind all the research, studies, and expert opinion on imagery and visualization. Here’s all the proof I need that regularly and continually picturing our preferred future...

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How to Vision Your Ideal Team or Culture

...confuse goal setting and visioning. The pioneering French psychologist, Émile Coué, broadly framed the difference when he wrote, “Imagery may be the highest form of mental energy we have. Reason can analyze and organize, but only imagination can create. It is through imagination that we create the future — ours...

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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm on…Visualization

...Allen, As a Man Thinketh Your body speaks imagery. Imagery is the language that will lodge the vision deep within the core of your being, so that it pulls you, day after day, relentlessly toward itself. Seeing yourself on a daily basis making a difference, getting in touch with your...

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Tips and Techniques to Harness the Power of Visualization

...there is no universal “one approach fits all” way to increase your picturing power. Here are a few approaches to develop this critical skill: Imagery often works best in a quiet, relaxed place at our peak time of day (e.g., a morning person or night owl). At least once a...

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Three Core Questions to Start Your New Year

...Where are we going? What do we believe in? Why do we exist? Where we are going involves the use of imagery and visualization. This has an incredible self-fulfilling power and vibrational magnetic energy that new research frontiers like quantum mechanics and mind-body medicine are only beginning to understand. What...

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The Fear Factor: Visualization’s Dark Side

...she lay in her own bed, turning routine nighttime household sounds into a soundtrack for murderous spirits or evil beings coming to get her. It’s been noted that fear can be an acronym for False Expectations Appearing Real. Fear is a powerful form of imagery — our own terrifying optical...

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5 Ways to Keep Growing and Energizing Your Dreams

I’ve been studying and applying the power of positive pictures for most of my life. These skills, habits, and techniques are often called visioning, imagery, and visualization. They have a power for change, improvement, and energy creation that we’re only beginning to understand It’s hard to picture a positive, hopeful...

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See It to Be It: Visualizing Your Ideal Future

...guided imagery process as part of their focus on work/life balance. Close your eyes and focus on your breathing. See that big movie screen in the middle of your forehead. Picture yourself in a very familiar home. See yourself walking from room to room, counting the windows in the house....

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New Habits for the New Year: Move beyond Wallowing and Following to Leading

...This is the perfect time of year to harness the magnetic power of imagery and visualization. Describe what your ideal life would look like if things were going extremely well three to five years from now. Outline your perfect job. Envision your ideal family life. See yourself helping to build...

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Advice to Young Professionals: “I wish I knew then, what I know now”

...me to sift through my experiences and material to get to the core essence of what I’d do over or change if I was starting my career again. Here are the four key areas I identified: Harnessing the Power of Imagery or Visualization I first came across the Law of...

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Overcoming Change Fatigue and Building Resilient and Flexible Teams/Organizations

...widely shared leadership throughout our entire organization at all levels and in all roles. • In dealing with change, uncertainty, and turbulence we can increase leading behaviors among team members by reminding each other to “stay off the Bitter Bus and out of Pity City.” • Visualization/Imagery, Values/Strengths, and Affirmations/Gratitude...

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Book Review: How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist

...extensive brain scanning, surveying, and analysis, the authors and their research team found that active and positive spiritual belief changes our brains for the better. But, they conclude, “actual faith isn’t always necessary: atheists who meditate on positive imagery can obtain similar neurological benefits.” They also found that there is...

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The Vision Quest Continues

I’ve written extensively about the central role of vision to team/organization leadership and personal growth. Learning about the incredibly magnetic power of imagery and picturing my preferred future at age 18 dramatically changed my life. It’s clearly what set me along the path to the work I do now. Improvement...

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In Your Dreams: See It to Be It

...are. Leadership is seeing what could be. As the pioneering French psychologist, Emile Coue, observed, “Imagery may be the highest form of mental energy we have. Reason can analyze and organize, but only imagination can create. It is through imagination that we create the future — ours and the world’s.”...

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Is Your Culture Attracting or Repelling Top Talent?

...and publicize good examples of your vision, values, and purpose in action. People want less data and information dumps — “headspeak” — and more imagery, metaphors, and stories – “heartspeak.” Look at your calendar and meeting agendas to see if there are big gaps between you and your team’s espoused...

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Time to Reflect and Redirect to Course Correct?

...being are where we’re going, what we believe in, and why we exist. Visualization and imagery are key skills in changing our expectations and positively charging our magnetic energy fields. The more we align our lives to our core values and strengths, the happier and more successful we’ll be. Our...

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Cognition and Mindfulness: Thinking About Our Thinking

...reinforce biases Attaching negative meanings to events IV. Methods: Focus on the Immediate (here and now) Target the biased thinking through Introspection Reflectiveness Perspective-taking Identification of “toxic” beliefs Distancing Constructive experiences Nurturing “positive beliefs” Use of Imagery Separating distress from pain Mindfulness training The Oxford dictionary defines cognition as “The...

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