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itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing
a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.”
When Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lin-
coln Memorial, he said, “I have a dream that one day on the red
hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former
slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of
brotherhood.”
The narration for Ronald Reagan’s famous 1984 reelection
ad began, “It’s morning again in America. Today more men and
women will go to work than ever before in our country’s his-
tory. With interest rates at about half the record highs of 1980,
nearly 2,000 families today will buy new homes, more than at
any time in the past four years. This afternoon 6,500 young men

and women will be married, and with inflation at less than half
of what it was just four years ago, they can look forward with

confidence to the future.”
In each of these examples, you can literally picture the
words being spoken in your mind, create an animated version
of what is being said. Can you picture the man on the moon?
Can you visualize a former slave and a former slave owner sit-
ting together? If you close your eyes, can you imagine what a
beautiful morning in America looks like? You and millions of
others could see those pictures, and it’s one of the reasons these
great leaders occupy the place they do in our history.

MAKE YOUR GOALS VISUAL

Brian Scudamore is a high school dropout who talked his way
into college. If you’ve ever gone through the college application