Visualization energizes our dreams. The more vivid our visualization, the higher our energy and magnetic attraction. Neuroscience shows we’re hardwired to look for what’s wrong. If our ancient ancestors missed catching lunch, they’d keep trying for dinner. If they missed that rustling in the bush, they became lunch. We have...
Read post »The last series of blog posts discussed visualization as “The Force” that can pull us forward. But it also has a dark side that can energize our fears. Fear and pessimism can be even more powerful. This Dark Force too often overshadows positive possibilities. Neuroscience shows we’re wired to focus...
Read post »...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...
Read post »Visualization sparked my career and energized my life. When I was just starting out, someone recommended I read Claude Bristol’s book, TNT: The Power Within You. The book sparked such an intensity of energy and profound new awareness that I couldn’t get a good night’s sleep for almost a week....
Read post »...rooms. I would then carry these feelings into meditation on my goals for this group and see myself delivering a highly successful “in flow” presentation to them. After a few unsuccessful tries, I used visualization to give up smoking for good in 1979. I made up a list of every...
Read article »...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...
Read post »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...
Read post »...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...
Read post »...pictures for over two decades now. These skills, habits, and techniques are often called visioning, imagery, and visualization. And they have a power for change, improvement, and energy creation that we’re only beginning to understand. Here’s a small sample of the research and examples I’ve collected over the years: A...
Read article »...30,000 guided meditations, instructions, talks, music, etc. on over 200 topics. Visualization — neuroscience shows we can rewire our brains and shift our mental and physical health by consciously focusing on our desired rather than our feared future. Get Real — we can actively seek reasons for hope during these...
Read post »...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...
Read post »...are actually reducing communication as we confuse quantity and quality while struggling to Tame the E-Mail Beast and making ourselves dumber with multi-tasking. • Visualization – using imagery and pictures of what we want. • Not Letting Others Should on Us – not being driven by others’ expectations of us...
Read post »...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...
Read post »...you want. If you can perfectly visualize the habit in your head, the work will be easier. Commit to the habit. If you want to change, you have to work at it. Do not quit if you have one failure. Set your own goals, and reward yourself.” Visualization is a...
Read post »Decades of research has proven the power of visualization in athletics, health, and personal, team, or organizational effectiveness. We become what we think about. The following is an exercise I’ve used personally, with my wife, Heather, and many groups. Recently I led a group of high potential leaders through this...
Read post »...and approaches I had many “ahas” as I read One Simple Idea. Understanding the origins of “the law of attraction,” visualization, affirmations, the placebo effect, 12 step recovery movements, self-hypnosis, breaking or forming habits, prosperity consciousness, “follow your bliss,” spiritual enlightenment, and mind-body healing brought a whole new appreciation and...
Read post »...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...
Read post »...success. Visioning Harnesses the Power of Our Pictures The “power of positive pictures” is a skill, habit, and technique often called visioning, imagery, and visualization. It has a power for change, improvement, and energy creation that we’re only beginning to understand. What We Get is What We See Personal effectiveness...
Read post »...his suggestions and other reference sources on relaxation, imagery, and visualization. I have found developing a number of personal affirmations is very useful. Napoleon Hill’s bestselling classic, Think and Grow Rich, is based on his 20 years of research on hundreds of highly successful business and political leaders commissioned by...
Read article »...power of visualization. You’ll also find suggestions to increase participation and autonomy. This is a core value that’s a cornerstone of most high-performing cultures. Leaders need to debate and decide if doing it with and not to or for people in their organization is a priority. Performance reviews are a...
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