Visualization: I want it all

[Verisimilitude]

I just read Chase's post on visualization and its something that I want to apply to my life. But how many things can you visualize before it gets too crowded? For example, I'd like to visualize me becoming a sexier man, dating a beautiful girl, becoming a lawyer, getting a good grade on the LSAT, getting a new car, having a supportive friend circle, becoming more dominant, etc. All these things I'd like to accomplish, but I think too many targets is a recipe for failure. I'm considering making a visualization board with just images that I look at and then try to see in my mind and how I would accomplish those. But I don't know how many goals is too much.

 

[Tyme2k]

So what you're saying is your ideal life is too much for you to accomplish?

Of course not..

I am going to create an outline similar to what you speak and begin this visualization
I definitely don't think there's such thing as too much. You will need to do the steps just as mentioned visualize what type of man you need to become and how you'll get there. Start small it if you have to just like Chase wrote in the article.

If its what you truly want to become you should easily be able to see your self as this. Maybe break each piece down into sub sections of what you need to get good at and alternate them through the week. I will do my first session tomorrow and maybe post some ideas.

 

[Flames]

The whole point of visualisation is that it's sets your brain up for success, it gives you the drive, motivation and more importantly the focus on what you want to accomplish, and even more importantly it allows you to recognise the things when you do accomplish them.

I must admit when Chase posted that visualisation post my initial thought was 'oh here we go' because time after time people post these things without ever understanding the psychology behind it, then he posted the video and I knew, that he knew.

It's a brain trick, it's clever and mostly beyond people's initial level of understanding. It's not, however, a magic trick. If it was it would be analogous to letting you see the playing card before you guess what it is.

You can achieve the achievable, the impossible will always remain impossible.

 

[Verisimilitude]

I'm not suggesting that my goals are too much to accomplish at all. I'm saying should I focus on one goal at a time, or multiple ones?

 

[Franco]

Hey runner,

If you're planning on making a vision board (or something along the lines of what Chase mentioned), I would go ahead and put everything down that you want, but then try to spend most of your time focusing on the things you can start working toward completing right now. So for example, one of your visions is becoming a lawyer... unless you're already in law school and well on your way to accomplishing that vision, then that is something that is going to take years to fulfill no matter how you look at it.

So every time you review your visions, you can take a glance at the lawyer image to remind yourself that that is who you want to be someday, but then maybe focus most of your visualization time on something that can be done in the short term (such as becoming a sexier man).

If you spend too much time envisioning the lawyer aspect, then you'll put years of hard work into it but later realize that you could have fulfilled your other visions in the meantime had you put more time into them. On the other hand, if you only envision yourself becoming a sexy man but then don't remind yourself of your lawyer vision every once in awhile, you'll end up losing focus and possibly even forgetting that this is still a vision of yours! Organize your visions chronologically into which ones you think you can obtain the soonest, and spend most of your time envisioning those happening right now. But also make sure to once in awhile glance at the visions you want to fulfill in the distant future so that you never lose sight of that goal amidst all your other ones.

- Franco

 

[NarrowJ]

Make a list or something and place it somewhere you will see it every day. Like your bathroom wall or something? Soon enough, the items on that list will be engrained into your mind and you'll be working toward those goals, even subconsiously.

Me? I just bite off manageable chunks. Basically what I have time for. I work out 5-6 days a week. Ok, that takes time off the schedule. What else do I want to work on? Do I have 2, 3 or 4 hours a night, 4 nights a week to do project X? Or maybe project Y is slightly less value to me but I only have to work on it 2 or 3 nights a week. I'm a web developer, it's what I do for a living. And- I'd love to build my own website and make it profitable somehow. I don't have the time for that right now. It's still a vision, but right now its just on the back burner.

 

[Verisimilitude]

Organize your visions chronologically into which ones you think you can obtain the soonest, and spend most of your time envisioning those happening right now. But also make sure to once in awhile glance at the visions you want to fulfill in the distant future so that you never lose sight of that goal amidst all your other ones.

Thanks Franco that's what I was looking for. I do want to make a vision board. I really like the whole thing with how the girl in the picture and the girl he dated looked alike. I just have to find the pictures now.

 

[Drck]

The simplest thing to do is to - visualize how you are visualizing all these successes together. Then you can have them all!

Seriously, I was playing with visualization several times before. I found that my mind gets tired after a while visualizing the same thing or focusing on the same thing, e.g. girls. For me, it is like the "attraction has expiration date" - at first I got a peak, i.e. I was quite excited about visualizing and learning something new, but then the effect of visualization slowly decreased and I got tired of it.

For example, I learned something about seduction by reading PUA stuff, and I visualized myself doing it. It was a huge learning curve for me, I created picture(s) in my mind, and visualized it for some while. Then I got tired of it, so I totally left all the PUA stuff, and focused for example on financial success. When I got tired of it, I focused on e.g. relaxation or personal development. Then I dropped it all for several months, totally forget it, no visualization at all. But then I met some new, exciting female, so I came back to PUA stuff, and again, learned a lot of new PUA stuff, visualized new things, and when I got tired I dropped it and focused on something else.

Looking back, I can compare each of these visualizations to a big building block. Anytime I visualized something it got stuck in my mind, and then later on I placed another new block at the top of it. I never lost the older 'pictures', but just kept stocking new block at the top of them. Today they are foundation of my personality, I can comfortably say that I am totally different person than I was several years ago.

I would also strongly recommend autosuggestion, i.e. repeating the same things over and over until your brain gets used to it, even overwhelmed with it. Then forget it (let your brain rest), focus on something else, drop it, and come back to it later on with new stuff, new building blocks. Very effective.

So don't "limit" your mind, don't get "stuck" on one picture only. Just crate a building block, and later on come back to it and "build" another one at the top of it. Today you want to be lawyer, tomorrow you will visualize studying hard and taking LSAT (while studying and preparing for LSAT), in couple of months you will be in doing interviews for admission to law school, and in couple years you will be passing finals in Law school.

Just remember, if you don't DO anything, visualization and autosuggestion will never help you...