Daydream Believer...

I get an email called the "Coaching Compass" about once a week. The one I just read was talking about visualizing your success.

Research into the brain and the mind/body connection has stated that our minds actually can't tell the difference between a "real" occurrence, and one that has been fully imagined. (Have you seen the movie 'What The Bleep Do We Know?' This is gone into in detail in that move.)

The whole idea is that if you have truly, viscerally and sens-ually lived an experience (e.g., you can taste it, smell it, etc.), then your brain actually categorizes it as an experience it has HAD.

The Coaching Compass stated this:

" Picture this... Liu Chi Kung, a world-class pianist in the late 1950's, was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution in China. After seven years without a piano, he immediately resumed his concert tour. His fans said he played better than ever and wondered how this was possible. Kung said, 'I rehearsed every piece I had ever played, note by note, in my mind.'

Mental rehearsal, or the process of visualization, can give you a competitive edge. Olympic athletes have used it in training for years and it works not only in sports but for every goal you set."

So, what are you visualizing before that important presentation, or even for overcoming the challenges you are facing? Are you rehearsing a Mental Masterpiece? Or obsessing over all the things that can go wrong?

Just remember -- your brain doesn't know that you didn't succeed "already." So practice thinking for success -- thinking to win -- and make it easier on your brain to think of You as a winner!