Everything you have and around you was once an idea.
The house or building you are in was first an idea in someone’s mind. Your car began as an idea, then was put on paper, then models and prototypes were made to work out the kinks.
With everything, there are two creations. The first in the mind, the second is the physical creation. You possess the most powerful tool in the universe – your mind.
If you realize EVERYTHING we have was once an idea in someone’s mind, you can believe you also have the potential to have or create whatever you can picture in your mind.
Watch Olympic athletes and pro golfers and you will see them many times close their eyes and mentally picture the run they are about to take or the shot they are about to make.
Lyndsey Vonn, one of the most successful female skiers in history and gold medalist, says her mental picturing gives her a competitive advantage on the course.
“I always visualize the run before I do it,” Vonn told MindBodyGreen. “By the time I get to the start gate, I’ve run that race 100 times already in my head, picturing how I’ll take the turns.”
But she doesn’t just keep the images in her head. She’s also known to physically simulate the path by literally shifting her weight back and forth as if she were on skis, as well as practice the specific breathing patterns she’ll use during the race.
“I love that exercise,” Vonn has said. “Once I visualize a course, I never forget it. So I get on those lines and go through exactly the run that I want to have.”
When Arnold Schwarzenegger decided he wanted to be a bodybuilder, he used the power of visualization to reach his goals.
“I had this fixed idea of growing a body like Reg Park’s. The model was there in my mind; I only had to grow enough to fill it,” he explained to MindBodyGreen. “The more I focused in on this image and worked and grew, the more I saw it was real and possible for me to be like him.”
Schwarzenegger said he employed similar mental tricks when you chose to pursue a career in acting and politics: “It’s the same process I used in bodybuilding: What you do is create a vision of who you want to be — and then live that picture as if it were already true.”
Napoleon Hill said, “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
You and I are no different than Lyndsey Vonn or Arnold Schwarzenegger – no, really! They have just developed a burning desire to achieve whatever it is they want and can see in their mind as having attained it.
You can develop this same ability. Once you do, you will have tapped into a power that enables you to have what you dream of.
I challenge you to do it..not try it…but do it. But the secret to this picturing or visualization is to have the belief that you will have it or accomplish it.
Is your belief big enough? Can you see vividly in your mind what you want to accomplish? Can you see in your mind actually having it or doing it? Spend some quiet time with your imagination. Identify what it is you really want in your life and see it in your mind. See yourself doing, enjoying, or celebrating it. Feel how it feels to achieve it.
What are you wearing? What does it feel like? What does it smell like? Be as specific as you can.
Then believe you can have it.
Nothing has been achieved in the history of mankind that wasn’t first a dream. Develop a mind picture of the success you dream of.
Mark Schinnerer is the author of The Success Grower: 8 Down to Earth Elements for Achieving Your Goals.