Visualisation Of Success: A Vital Ingredient To Win.

The power of visualisation of success, and of a job well done or of a goal achieved are quite extraordinary in human beings. When the success eventually occurs and matches the earlier visualisation, it can make that success appear merely a natural outcome.

So is a really powerful and vivid visualisation of the mission accomplished, a guarantee that success will surely follow? I wish! There are other essential ingredients too. But what is unavoidably true is that, barring rare and quirkish coincidences, if there is no visualisation of success, then success will not occur.
What happens when we visualise an outcome vividly, we provide ourselves cognitively with a defined destination.

Most of us like to go on a journey. But just imagine, being all packed and dressed for a journey, and we turn up at a major railway or airport and ask for a ticket. What will be the question thrown at us immediately? “Where to?”

Now visualise the look on the ticket clerk’s face when we reply, “I don’t know!”

If we don’t know, who does? And if we don’t know, sadly, who much cares?

Cognitive research has produced some fascinating results over the last 30 years. We now know that we get drawn naturally to the most dominant picture in our mind. Try this:
- Settle on some visualisation technique that you like.
- Paint the picture vividly in your mind of exactly where, say, you want to
- spend your next holiday.
- Bring the other senses into play. Hear the sounds. Smell the scents - - --
- Remind yourself what this would mean to you.
- Ensure this no dream. It is an intent.
-Tell yourself when you want to achieve it.

Now watch!

We have just presented our sub conscious with a huge dilemma. It realises on the one hand that our whole cognitive system seems hooked irretrievably on the goal – not a dream – to take this holiday.

Our mental picture has become so all pervasive that the issue of the cost of this particular holiday just has to be solved and not used as an excuse. No quarter must be given to reasons why it is not achievable. As a result, our whole mental and emotional force gets drawn to the result. Heaven and earth will get moved to make it possible!

What is happening within us? Our unconscious mind which stores all our memories and all our latent knowledge and skill, has been presented with the clear picture, the blunt mandate to provide us with the wherewithal to obtain the goal. More than that it will find and create opportunities for us to complete this visualisation foremost in our mind.

The more vivid we make this vital ingredient to win, the less there is room for us fail. Good Luck in all you do.

Sir Gerry Neale has lectured as Visiting Lecturer under-graduates and post graduates at the University of Westminster in cognitive thinking. He has mentored courses for corporate strategic planning and how to position the organisation’s and the individual’s thinking in relation to them. He has conducted counselling and life coaching programmes with individuals in person and on-line.