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"Success Is Not an Accident

Success is not an accident. It is a deliberate, systematic process of deciding where you want to go and what it will look like when you get there, and then taking the steps day by day to turn those dreams into realities. And perhaps the most powerful of all tools for success you can learn to use is visualization: seeing with the mind's eye.

Visualization is an absolutely amazing process that is used by highly successful men and women of all kinds. However, it is a power that is available to everyone. And the better you get at visualization, the more rapidly you move forward to accomplish your goals and aspirations.
Denis Waitley says, "Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions." 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.

Since virtually no schools or courses ever teach people about the power of visualization, average people use it in a random or haphazard way most of the time. Instead of continually thinking about the things they desire and, therefore, moving consistently toward them, average people think first about something they want, and then they think about something they don't want. They think about things they desire, and they think about things they fear. They think about people they like, and they think about people they dislike. They think about success, and they think about failure. They think about wealth, and they think about poverty. They think about having a nice life, and they think about being impoverished or being deeply in debt. And then they can't understand why their life seems to go back and forth, back and forth, and they make very little progress.

The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk only about the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want. The fact is that your mind is so powerful that if you don't want something, you must absolutely refrain from allowing yourself to think about it when it comes into your mind. You must push it out, knock it aside, get rid of it and get your mind back onto what you want.

One of the best formulas for positive thinking I ever learned was this: No matter what is going on around you, think about your goals. If you have problems with your finances, stop — refuse to dwell upon them — and instead think about your goals. If you are having difficulties with other people, change your mind by switching your thinking off of your problems with them and onto your goals.

Eventually, through repetition, you will find yourself thinking about your goals most of the time. And — as we've known for more than 2,000 years — as you think about your goals, you begin to move toward them, and they begin to move toward you. All manner of remarkable things happen in your life that bring you closer to your goals when you think about them all of the time.

Your success is under your control. When you continually think about and visualize your goals, you start to achieve them at a rapid rate.

Now, here are three things you can do immediately to put these ideas into action.

First, review your habitual ways of thinking and analyze what you think about and visualize most of the time. Be sure that it is something you want.

Second, discipline yourself to keep your thoughts fixed on your goals most of the time. Catch yourself when you slip, and get back to your goals.

And third, imagine every day that you have already achieved your major goal. Visualize a picture of it in your mind's eye. This is your preview of your own coming attractions"

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