"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." (Napoleon Hill)
As I said in my post "Conceive, Believe, Achieve", visualization can do more than any other exercise to bring you closer to your goals. Once you have written down your life's goals, continue to visualize them as you go about your day, your week, your year.
Brian Tracy says that if you tap into your superconscious, what Christians call the Holy Spirit, you can accomplish more in a year than others do in a lifetime. If you change the mental pictures on the inside, you will change your outside world to correspond with those pictures. If you want a quality, imagine you already have it. If you want a job, imagine you already have it. As Whitney Young Jr. said, "It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
Take for instance Miami sanitation worker Les Brown. He dreamed of becoming a disc jockey. He would take a transistor radio to bed at night and listen to the local deejays. Grabbing his hairbrush as a microphone, he would practise his speech, introducing records to the radio audience. One day, on his lunch break from cutting grass, he visited the local radio station and asked for a job. Once the radio manager realized he had no experience in broadcasting he turned him down flat.
However, Les was determined to pursue his dream, not just because he loved radio, but because his higher goal was to earn enough money to purchase a house for his mother. So Les returned to the radio station everyday for a week. Finally, the manager relented and gave him a job as an errand boy, without pay. The disc jockeys saw how dedicated he was to his job and they started sending him in their Cadillacs to pick up visiting celebrities like The Temptations and The Supremes. While hanging out with the deejays, Les taught himself how to work the control panels, preparing for the opportunity he knew would present itself.
One night, the deejay on duty was drinking himself into a stupor. Les kept a close eye on him, ready to take over when necessary. The inevitable call came from the station manager asking Les if he would phone the other deejays to find a replacement. Les hung up, but instead of phoning deejays, he phoned his mother and asked her to turn on the radio. Fifteen minutes later, he phoned the station manager saying he couldn't find a replacement. The manager asked him if he knew how to work the controls to which he replied yes. Les hung up the phone, jumped into the deejay's chair, flipped on the microphone switch and in a confident voice announced: "Look out, this is me, L.B., triple P -- Les Brown, your Platter Playing Poppa!" He went on to a career not only in broadcasting but also television, politics and public speaking.
