In order to achieve your goals and attain new levels of success,
put your imagination to work. Get into the habit of visualizing
your goals as if they are already happening. Talk to yourself as
if you are already achieving that success that up until now
you've only dreamed of.

One of the often overlooked keys to making visualization and
affirmations work is the feelings involved. Imagining success
without mixing in a whole lot of positive feeling is nothing more
than a mental exercise. But fuel your visualization and
affirmations with faith, gratitude, passion, or excitement and
suddenly you have a powerful life changing tool. That tool is
simply the imagination.

Many of us are in the habit of using imagination, thoughts, and
feelings to produce negative results. Often times we aren't even
conscious of doing it. Much of what's wrong with our lives has
been directly created by our own negative use of the imagination,
backed with negative feelings. From here on out, when you catch
yourself using the imagination negatively, stop yourself and
start to visualize and affirm the positive. Back it with positive
feelings, and you are on your way to creating a compelling
future.

Keep doing it if even you don't think anything is happening.
Sometimes the magic may happen overnight, but it's not uncommon
for it to take weeks or months to start happening. Realize also,
that it often comes a piece at a time. It can be incredibly
exhilarating to watch the pieces fall into place day after day.

Make it in the present moment. It's important to start thinking
of success and goals in the here and now. When you always think
of success as something in the future, then it is always
something that you don't have. Think of success as something that
is happening right now. Don't think "I want to be making $10,000
per month," think "I AM making $10,000 per month." When you are
visualizing the success you want, try to get into it so much that
it feels like it's really happening.

Make your goals big, but not too big. Visualizing something that
is so big that it seems downright impossible, is not going to get
you anywhere. You don't want to be constantly wrestling with
thoughts that are counterproductive, such as "There is no way on
earth that's going to happen." Start with something that seems
possible and attainable so that negative imagination in the form
of doubt can be kept to a minimum.

It's important to develop the habit of awareness in regard to
negative thinking because using the imagination begets results
whether we use it negatively or positively. The less negative
resistance that your positive use of imagination has, the better
your results will be.

Don't worry if sometimes you just can't fight off that bad mood.
Nobody is positive all the time. The key is to make the time an
energy you spend on the positive, far outweigh that of the
negative.

Remember to imagine success, fuel it with positive feelings, and
keep on doing it until it becomes habit. Don't underestimate the
most powerful success tool in your arsenal, the imagination.