Recently my beautiful mastermind coach, Amanda Kendle, suggested we create a journal for visualising success, in which we write down our imagined futures in present tense.
So for the past three weeks, I’ve been visualising success for an abundant future, featuring my dream home by the beach, driving a Tesla, funding the build of a school through my favourite charity Classroom of Hope, and sending our daughters to my former high school.
At first, I thought some of these goals were ridiculously ambitious, but the strange thing is that the more I write them down, the easier they feel to obtain.
Visualising what you truly desire
Whenever I was scared of doing something big as a kid, my mum would tell me to visualise myself nailing it.
When I was scared to perform in the school musical, she’d tell me to visualise myself singing perfectly in key. Or when I was worried about my diving competition, she’d encourage me to visualise myself diving gracefully into the pool.
My mum often used this technique herself, and I’ve lost count of the number of times she’s won raffles because she visualised her name being drawn out of the hat!
I didn’t realise it at the time, but what my mum was teaching me was the law of attraction.
What is the law of attraction?
Put simply, the law of attraction is connected to the idea that what you focus on is what you attract.
Think about it – have you ever known a ‘negative Nelly’ in your life who never seems happy? The world is always crashing down around them and they victim-blame others for its faults. Often these types of people are focusing solely on the bad things in life, and this is what they continue to attract.
Or have you ever known someone who seems endlessly positive? You might notice that this person is frequently ‘lucky’, living an abundant life where amazing things seem to continuously happen to them. These people often have a positive outlook on life and therefore they attract positivity to them like a magnet.
What these negative Nellys and lucky ladies might not know is that they are frequently manifesting their lives to play out in a certain way due to where they choose to focus their energy.
The good news is that if you are conscious of the thoughts you experience, you can focus your own energy to attract success.
How to visualise effectively
If you’re not into the ‘woo-woo’ stuff, firstly, congrats for reading this far! 😂 But secondly, I’d just like to acknowledge that many successful sportspeople and CEOs use visualisation in their daily routines. It’s not simply a woo-woo or spirtual thing, and it does work!
So how can you visualise effectively?
Firstly, take a few minutes at the beginning of each day to visualise what you want out of life. Write in your journal or close your eyes and see yourself living out that ‘ideal day’.
Don’t forget to include all your senses in this visualisation journey. Include smells you’re experiencing, what you’re touching, and how you’re feeling.
If you want a dream home by the beach you might hear the waves, smell the sea, and feel the silky, expensive sheets under you as you wake up in bed.
Create a vision board with images of all the things you’re aiming for and place it in a prominent place, like next to your computer or on your fridge.
Don’t forget to act on the visualisations!
While visualising is a step towards success, it’s not the complete pathway to achievement. Like with anything, true success takes a lot of hard work and ACTION.
If you truly want to make your visualisations a reality, you need to take actionable steps towards those goals.
This involves continuously learning and expanding on your knowledge. It means doing at least one thing (no matter how small!) each day that is working towards your ultimate goal.
For example, last week I presented a talk on email marketing in front of 30 people at the Wanneroo Business Association. I was feeling quite nervous, so I decided to try visualising success.
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In the days leading up to the talk, I visualised feeling confident and delivering the perfect presentation. But to further increase my chance of success, I carefully planned my presentation and practiced it numerous times.
On the day of the presentation, it went exactly how I had envisioned. I left the room on a high, knowing I had done my absolute best.
I would love for you to experience this kind of endorphin rush from a win – no matter how big or small.
