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you can picture your goal, even if only in a drawing or a dream,
the more real it becomes. And the more real a goal is, the more
possible it is and the more you can conceive of it being a part of
your life. Thus, it becomes a goal you’ll do almost anything to
achieve.
Stimulating the visual parts of your brain has a profound
impact on your consciousness. Just look at how many people get
freaked out about asteroids crashing into the planet after they
see it happen on a movie screen. Or how about all the 5′7″ Ital-
ian guys who thought they could become heavyweight boxers
after watching Rocky? In fact, I’m still pretty much convinced
his fi ght with Ivan Drago in Rocky IV ended the Cold War (“if
I can change, and you can change, everybody can change”).
I don’t want to give some cliché like “if you can picture it,
you can do it,” because that’s an oversimplifi cation. Instead,
let’s say that the more you can picture a goal, the more intensely
it will be encoded in your brain and the more it will insinuate
itself into your life and consciousness, thus making the achieve-
ment of that goal a virtual necessity.

PICTURE SUPERIORITY

There are lots of ways to animate a goal—to help you imagine,
envision, and picture what you ultimately want to create and
how you’ll get there. You can use actual pictures, drawings,
visualization, mnemonics, and even language fi lled with imag-
ery. Of course, any opportunity you have to use a true visual
(picture, drawing, or other image), go ahead and use it because
these are incredibly powerful motivators.