Cherishing Your Vision to Energize Your Mission:

“Reshape the images in your head to match the vision in your heart.”

Visualizing your dreams means deliberately replaying a mental vision and image of where or who you would like to be. Leaders and successful people in every field cite visualization as a primary factor in reaching success. Even superstars like Will Smith have used the simple but powerful tool of “visualizing your dreams” to reach where they are today:

“In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar.”

It is important to understand the concept that he who says he can do something, will, and he who says he cannot do anything will not, and both are correct.  People who say they can do something often visualizes themselves achieving what it is they want, and that visualization of accomplishment stimulates their psychological functioning. This excited state of mind is a booster which gives them confidence and pushes them to perform whatever necessary in order to achieve goals. When these people accomplish what they want, their intuition gives them an even more powerful challenge of, “You can do more!” creating a powerful, constructive cycle.

Here are few tips for visualizing your dreams and setting in motion those things you must do to accomplish them:

1. Focus on your dreams, aims, and objectives.  Life is complicated and it’s easy to get tangled up in the chaos, leaving your dreams neglected and unnourished. Identify your goals and adopt persistence and perseverance toward achieving those goals.
2. Adopt a positive mindset and start living like a champion.  Above all, get rid of the "self-pity" nature. If you imagine yourself a victor and behave like one, you will be one someday because, “The man who wins is the man who thinks he can.”
3. Experience the joy of achieving your dream by involving your sense organs in this process.  If you want to be an Oscar winner, imagine it. Use supplementary material, for example, to set a stage in your room with a microphone. Prepare a speech and finally lift up the Oscar. This might sound crazy to a few of you, but you would be surprised at how many actual Oscar winners say they used to do the very same thing.
4. Prepare stimulants and place them at different locations where you spend most of your time, such as your room or your workplace.  Stimulants can be quotes that serve as reminders and help you to visualize your dreams. Consider the Oscar example again. You can save a picture of some Oscar winner in your cell phone with a dialogue that reminds you that, “you will be among the elite Oscar winners someday.”
5. Above all focus on achieving your dreams and plan to work toward it.  K. Rowling asserts that,  “It does not do to merely dwell on dreams and do nothing.”

Remind yourself not to spend too much time daydreaming. Plan what you should do to achieve your goals and starting working on that plan with persistence, perseverance, and passion.

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