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Secret #3: What You See Is What You Get

Successful Achievers have trained themselves to “visualise their dream.” They see it on the inside long before the world sees it on the outside. One of my very favourite stories about visualising the dream has to do with Walt Disney’s widow. Whenever they were dedicating The Epcot Centre a reporter went up to Lillian Disney and said to her that it was a shame that Walt wasn’t there to see how everything had turned out. She turned to the reporter without any hesitation and replied, “Oh, he saw it, and long before we ever did.”

A key part of realising your dream is the practice of visualization and there are a number of well-known examples of the power of visualization.

Legendary Golfer, Jack Nicklaus is said to have always played a course in his mind before actually beginning a game. In his own words: "I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. First I see the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes, and I see the ball going there; its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behaviour on landing. Then there is a sort of fade-out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images into reality."

One night in 1987, Jim Carrey was a 25-year-old struggling comic when he drove his old Toyota up to Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills. Sitting there overlooking the City of Angels and visioning his future, Carrey wrote himself a cheque for $10 million. He dated it Thanksgiving 1995 and added the notation, "for acting services rendered."
This story has become famous, of course, because Carrey's expression of brazen optimism turned out to be conservative. By the time 1995 actually rolled around, his rambunctious goofball roles in "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective," "The Mask" and "Dumb & Dumber" had yielded worldwide grosses of $550 million, and the newly minted superstar's asking price was up to $20 million per picture.

Brian Tracy says that, “All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures. Your mental pictures act as a guidance mechanism that causes you to act in ways that make your mental pictures come true in your life.

The Law of Correspondence says that “As within, so without.” It says that your outer world tends to be a reflection of your inner world-like a mirror. What you see in the world around you will be consistent over time with the world inside you.

The Law of Concentration says that “Whatever you dwell upon grows in your reality.” Those two laws in combination explain much of success and most of failure.

Successful people are those who continually think about pictures and images of the people they would like to be and the lives they would like to lead.” Your subconscious mind is extraordinarily powerful, but it is a servant, not a master.

Your subconscious mind coordinates every aspect of your thoughts, feelings, behaviours, words, actions and emotions to fit a pattern consistent with your dominant mental pictures. It guides you to engage in the behaviours that move you ever closer to achieving the goals you visualize most of the time.

Now It’s Time To Take Action:

For those of you that have seen The Secret: Use a “dreamboard”, collect images of the things you want in your life and pin them to a cork board in your Office, kitchen, bedroom, etc….

Alternatively, collect images from the internet and make a slide show of them in the screen saver on your computer.

If you haven’t seen The Secret yet, you can do so by visiting www.thesecret.tv