Shape Your Success

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Everyone uses their imagination on a daily basis. Whether it's just daydreaming, worrying, remembering to get angry or something else. We play a movie in our head as to how our life is, how we've perceived and reacted to our experiences, as well as, fantasize about how things "should" be or could be better. Have you ever stopped to really think about what your imagination might be costing you? Although many of us don't realize we use our imagination to hold ourselves back, we can use our imaginations to catapult us forward into the life we want.
 
Here's an example. If you fear making cold calls or public speaking, do you play a movie in your head about what it would feel like to be rejected? Scolded? Humiliated? If you said yes, you're not alone. Most people indulge their fears through their fictional movie theater between their ears.  If we have a fear of something, like public speaking, our subconscious mind will help you remember every time you felt bad getting up in front of others to speak, probably even remembering that time in high school when you forgot and important detail while giving a report.
 
Confidence isn't something that you just install with a magic bullet. Just like you have to exercise your body to keep it in shape, you must exercise your mental confidence. Just 5 to 10 minutes a day can help move you forward to speaking with ease, or developing confidence in other situations.
 
Instead of wasting the day and evening away thinking about all of the things that could go wrong, imagine how things could go right. Use your imagery to capture how you would stand, speak and listen, if you were already confident and knew you were going to do well.
 
I admit, I don't love public speaking, however, I have learned some great techniques which help me feel better about giving presentations - even feel confident with practice.
 
This week's experiment:
 
The Shape Your Success Film Theaters are now open. Take at least 5 minutes per day to imagine something going well that you used to fantasize would go wrong. Add a soundtrack if you'd like to. Make the movie screen larger than life with vivid colors. Record the movie on your imaginary DVR to play back at any time.
 
As your move plays out, you'll see images of success from your past as well as future scenes that haven't even happened yet.
 
When you're really imagining your success well, float out and toward that movie screen and place yourself in the movie. Merge yourself with the successful you. Hear through the ears, see through the eyes, feel through the calm and enlightened nerves of the successful you.
 
Notice where you feel those feelings of success strongest. Give those feelings a shape and a color. Moving the color to the top of your head and all the way down to the soles of your feet.  Let the successful feelings expand as you float back to your body. Place your first finger and thumb together on your dominant hand and anchor those feelings in so that you can recall those successful feelings any time you want to.
 
Let me know how you do.

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