This is Steveer Robbins. Today we're going to talk about how to visualize for results.

Really?

Backed by decades of scientific research and discussed in the book,

Rethinking Positive Thinking by Professor Gabriel Otenjin,

the technique has been applied to everything from drinking self-regulation to getting over regret.

When you were a kid, didn't you just love the idea that you could think of something

and it would magically happen? You would bounce down the street thinking about how good an ice cream

cone would be, and one would appear in your hand. You'd scrunch up your face and think hard

about how great it would be if your friends were around, and amazingly,

they would appear. You'd wish that the old chemical factory would explode in the middle of the night so that you could take a day off of school. That one probably didn't come true because

everyone who works there was wishing really hard that the factory wouldn't explode so they

could keep their jobs. They were very selfish. Then you grew up. You hit puberty and

became a teenager. You spent hours every day wishing for certain things. At least you did if you

were a boy. I can't speak for girls. In fact, you did almost nothing except wish for certain things.

And they didn't happen. They didn't happen so much that there's an entire genre of comedy about teenagers who are wishing that hard, but it's just not happening.

But our wishes never seemed to make things magically happen. So, in spite of this tremendous disconfirming evidence, why do we continue to believe that we'll be able to wish and make it so?

Because while wishing doesn't make things happen by magic, it does make things happen

by motivation, but only if you do it right.

You have to feel the desire and then show your brain that your current situation is the

only thing standing between you and your wishes, and then you add in a little more preparation

and your brain will start driving you relentlessly

towards your goals.

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