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Get on track with these quick and easy visualisation tips
If you’re feeling a little lost in life, or just not getting anywhere, visualisation could be just what you need.
Now, visualisation isn’t just airy fairy daydreams about how you’re going to take over the world tomorrow… it’s about creating a clear and focused path to achieving the goals you have for your life – and it can start right now.
Start visualising with WOOP:
WOOP is a technique developed by German psychologist Gabriele Oettingen and follows these four steps:
Wish: Define what it is that you want. This becomes the basis for your visualisation.
Outcome: Connect with how it will feel and what it will mean to you if you could actually achieve your goal.
Obstacle: Pragmatically address any doubts or actual barriers that exist.
Plan: Build a plan that’s fuelled by a clearly defined wish, a strong connection with why that is important and some frank troubleshooting around what is standing in the way.
Now write your story…
If you struggle with visualisation, storytelling could help. Follow these four tips to find your inner storyteller:
Start at the end: Imagine you have reached your goal, and then document the journey you walked through life to get to that point.
Write in the third person: Writing as if you are talking to someone is usually easier and feels more natural, than talking to yourself.
Keep at it: Like building any meaningful habit to improve your life, consistency and frequency are key. You won’t build a strong and supportive self-narrative by doing these exercises too few and far in between. A once-a-week check-in on your picture of success will go a long way to focusing the mind and in building a strong narrative.
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