How to Use Visualization to Achieve Your Goals

Smart Business Thinking by Jim Whelan

Recently a client asked us at Smart Business Thinking if Visualization can help her succeed? That’s a very good question and one we enjoy responding to.

Visualization is a powerful method of achieving personal success.

Let’s look at the difference between Vision and Visualization.

VISION is applicable to both organizations and individuals. It is the conceptualizing of a future event or condition which the author wishes to accomplish.

"Land a man on the moon and safely return him to earth by the end of this decade." President John F. Kennedy.

This Vision is a simple statement of what JFK wanted to reach before the decade was out.

VISUALIZATION is applicable to individual(s). You, the Visualizer, see in your mind the thing you want to create. The power of visualization is that you not just see it; you feel it, as if it were already real.

Focus your mind on having reached the goal, and thereby making decisions and employing tactics to match that outcome.

As the astronauts went through their training for the moon mission it’s probable that in their minds they saw and felt what it is like to already have it.

They picture in their minds:

Successful launch

Orbiting the moon

Identifying the landing site

Landing, walking and planting the American flag on the moon

Return to the spaceship

Returning to earth

Another example of Visualization is the Olympic athlete who visualizes during the grueling hours of training, standing on the winner’s platform receiving the gold medal. The individual incorporates into her mind the picture of having reached the goal.

Bottom Line?

Successful people from many walks of life use visualization to help them achieve beyond their comfort level.

Jim Whelan, experienced executive, coaches business owners on Strategic Business Choices, Written Goals, Value and Mission Statements that actually Improve Results.

With Jim’s coaching, New, Small, and Troubled Businesses develop Operational Plans, Future Contingencies Focused on Outcomes and an Exit Strategy,