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It is amazing sometimes how you might already be doing something regularly and yet be unaware of its existence. I was in such a situation until I read a book about positive imaging. Looking back, I realized that subconsciously my mind had been behaving in a certain way, my thoughts had been steered in a certain direction, and yet it was only then that I realized what I had been doing all along.
It has been said that in order to get what you want, you have to focus on it. You have to be able to see it in your head, visualize the end results and somehow, eventually you will receive it. I did not realize that I had been doing the same thing since I was in school. Thinking back, I had been visualizing my results every time I studied for my exams. I would back up my hard work with positive words of encouragement and tell myself that I would get my ‘A’, and I could actually see myself receiving my exam paper with an ‘A’ on it.
Almost, if not always, the result would be true. I would end up getting an ‘A’. Back then however, I would simply attribute it to my hard work and nothing else. Seems like positive imaging was also playing its part.
How then can we be utilize this powerful imaging technique to our advantage? Do we just think about what we want and hope that it will come true? As easy as it may sound, it takes more work than just that. According to authors who have wrote on this topic, including famous Norman Vincent Peale, it does take a lot of effort, not in coming up with the thought, but in maintaining the thought constantly until you attain your objective.
Say for example you want to get a promotion. After working so many years in the same job, you deserve to be promoted, especially since you managed to produce stellar results for a few recent projects. But you think about being promoted for one day, and the next day you’re back to slogging for another project and the thought gets pushed to the back of your mind. After another few months, you are faced with lots of stress at work, and have been working super long hours and once again the thought of you being promoted surfaces. You cannot stand it anymore! You have to be promoted. However, another important project comes along the next day and you are soaked in the mesh of work you have to do. This continues for a few years and then when you can no longer take it, you look back and wondered why you never ever fought for your promotion.
This scenario is probably very common among your friends and colleagues. Everyday, you will probably hear someone complain about missing out an opportunity or when someone else gets promoted, they viciously wish them the best. What you probably need to do really is to think about it CONSTANTLY, EVERYDAY, EVERY WAKING MINUTE, EVERY SLEEPING MINUTE. You need to think of yourself already sitting in that coveted office space. You need to imagine yourself handed a promotion letter one afternoon, imagine everyone in the office celebrating with you, imagine everyone patting your back offering their congratulations. Be as specific as possible. And the key is to hold this thought in your mind for ten minutes every morning and every night without fail. For it is indeed true that if you want something bad enough, you will get it. And if you think about something everyday, it will eventually come true.
I assume a lot of people probably know about this concept, if you can call it that, and are thinking that it has not worked for them yet. Well, it does not hurt to give it a try since it is free, and all it takes is a dose of discipline. And to get what you want, you have to be disciplined. If it is not working for you yet, you probably have not been doing something right. After all it has worked for me, and will continue working for me as long as I put my mind to it.
I remember when I was searching for my new apartment. I wanted to get this particular unit so badly that I started seeing myself viewing the property and actually paying the deposit to that unit. I even wrote down the unit no and the address and memorized it, pretending that I already owned that address. True to the power of visualization, I managed to get a call to view that unit and today I am proud to say that I am the owner of that apartment 
So if you ask if I believe it works, I would have to say I sincerely do. If only more people were aware of this wonderful tool.
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