Goal Setting with Visualization: How to realise your dreams and ambitions

Set Your Goals

Decide on the goals you want to achieve. It sounds simple, but you’d be surprised how hard it
is to actually pinpoint what you want. If asked, people will often have woolly ambitions like
‘being happy’ or ‘making money’ but you need to know WHAT that means. What will make YOU happy? Opening a chocolate shop? Travelling the world? Repairing old clocks? You need to be honest with yourself and discover your true ambitions.

Visualise yourself where you want to be

See yourself as a success. If it’s a promotion you’re after, imagine you’re finally sitting in that huge office with the window, or sitting behind the wheel of that gleaming sports car. If you’ve always wanted to sell up and run a guesthouse in Spain, picture yourself doing just that. Really go for it - image what you are doing and saying and what people are saying back to you in your new situation. The more you positively visualise yourself where you want to be, the more energy is directed to manifesting your dreams and making them a reality.

However, a word of caution, DO NOT overdo it - obsessing about it or trying TOO hard actually creates an energy block. Setting 10 minutes aside a day to give relaxed, uninterrupted thought to it is perfect - and if you don't manage for a couple of days that's okay!

Now the tricky part…

How did you actually achieve your imagined success? So, you’ve pictured yourself in the plush office. Now you have to picture yourself on the route that got you there. What were the specific things you needed to do? Did you have to take work home with you to meet targets or did you have to start a weekend job to save money? Let the answers come to you naturally and easily. Think positively about how you will overcome any barriers and incorporate them into your visualisaion ie if you need to get a weekend job, visualise yourself in a weekend job that you would enjoy.

How long did it take you to achieve your goal? Is the future ‘you’ years off or are you only looking ahead six months? By thinking about how far off your target is, it’s easier to picture how and when you will get there.

How did you know you’d achieved your goal? What signs did you see that indicated you’d achieved it? For example, if you want to be living a healthier life, how do you know that in your future life you’re healthier? Do you see yourself running in the morning before work? Do you know that you’re eating 5 pieces of fruit and veg a day?

Be really specific about your goal. What are the exact details of your future life now that you’ve achieved what you always wanted? What are you doing in the future that you weren’t doing in the present time? What relationships do you have in the future that you don’t actually have now? You’ve really got to picture – in minute detail – the new, future you.

Thinking about the future can be daunting and deciding how to change your life for the better is often so hard it stops you from actually trying.

By visualising yourself in a time when you’re doing what you REALLY want to do, with thought given to the smallest of details, means you are directing your energies towards that dream. In turn, because we and the universe are made of energy and therefore all instrinsically linked, means that the universal energy starts moving towards your dream too.

Once you start this process, look out for "co-incidences" that start occurring in your life that create the necessary stepping stones to get where you need to be.

Try it. Anything will seem achievable.

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Shortcut Bulletin (amendments made to Shortcut's original piece)