Visualization is a powerful tool that can help entrepreneurs achieve their goals by creating a mental blueprint for success. When used correctly, visualization can align your subconscious mind with your conscious aspirations, making it easier to take consistent, effective action towards your entrepreneurial goals. This ultimate guide to visualization will provide you with a six-step protocol to harness the power of your mind and transform your business.
How Your Subconscious Mind Stops You From Getting Success
To fully understand the power of visualization, it is important to understand how your subconscious mind works. It controls 90% of our brain’s activities and significantly influences our daily decisions. It likes to do whatever it is familiar with. It hates doing anything unfamiliar to it. It prevents us from doing the unfamiliar by impulsively sending negative thoughts and feelings which we automatically give into. By visualizing the unfamiliar, you familiarize your subconscious mind with the idea of achieving your goals, making it easier to take the necessary actions in real life.
The Power of Visualization
Why Visualization Works
- Same as Taking Real Action: The subconscious mind cannot tell the difference between what is real or imagined. This means the discomfort you feel when visualizing an unfamiliar situation can be as intense as the actual experience.
- Expands Comfort Zone: By consistently visualizing unfamiliar scenarios, you gradually make them part of your mental comfort zone, reducing real-life discomfort.
The Six-Step Visualization Protocol
Step 1: Snap Out of Default Mode
Before beginning any visualization, it’s essential to snap out of default mode. This involves taking a step back from your current reality and detaching from any predetermined or limiting beliefs. Realize that your past does not determine your future.
How to Snap Out of Default Mode:
- Breath Awareness: Focus on your breathing. Observe each inhale and exhale.
- Awareness: Realize that your past does not determine your future.
- Acknowledgment: Recognize yourself as an observer of reality, detached from current circumstances.
Step 2: Visualize the Goal
Every night before bed, envision your goal. This could be your next major milestone or a general aspiration. As you do this consistently, your mind will start seeing opportunities aligned with your goal.
How to Visualize the Goal:
- Short Bursts: Visualize in short, 15 to 30-second bursts frequently.
- Vivid Imagery: Create a detailed mental picture, including sights, sounds, and emotions.
- Emotional Connection: Feel the emotions associated with achieving your goal.
- Push Through The discomfort and visualize anyway.
For unclear goals, focus on the feelings you want to achieve. For clear goals, visualize the smaller steps leading to the larger goal.
Note
It is important to repeatedly visualize your goal, as it helps you to widen your mental comfort zone. As your comfort zone widens, you start thinking about opportunities that can take you to your goals. Therefore, visualize your goal until you gain insights into the necessary process. Do not worry about finding the process. Just keep your mind open to the goal, so that, when the opportunity comes, you can grab it. Successful entrepreneurs do not sit around waiting for the process, they take action without thinking much, and spot opportunities within the obstacles they face.
Step 3: Visualize the Process
Step 3: Visualize the Process
Throughout the day, spend moments visualizing the next immediate step you can take.
How to Visualize the Process:
- Micro-Goals: Break down your main goal into smaller, actionable steps.
- Detail-Oriented: Visualize each step in full detail.
- Emotional Engagement: Feel the excitement and determination required for each step
Step 4: Visualize the Ideal Self
To make your results permanent, embody the identity of someone who has already achieved your goals. Visualize yourself as your ideal self every morning, cementing new neural pathways.
Why a Shift in Identity is Required
Adopting the identity of your ideal self ensures your actions align with your goals, leading to lasting results. Without this shift, any success is often temporary and inconsistent. For example, you may apply brute force against subconscious resistance once and succeed, but you will not be able to do it over and over again unless you change your self image.
How to Visualize the Ideal Self:
- Future Self: Imagine your future self who has achieved all your goals.
- Daily Routine: Visualize yourself going through your daily routine as this ideal self.
- Embody Characteristics: Focus on the traits, habits, and behaviors of this ideal self.
- Don’t Try to Change Yourself When you try to change who you are currently, you are fighting with the past. Avoid this. Instead, choose who you want to be in the future, which after a few moments, will become the present.
To step into your ideal self
- Start with a quick visualization exercise first thing in the morning.
- Imagine your day as if you are living as your ideal self. Envision your highest, wisest version, the person you aspire to be in the next 20, 30, or 50 years.
- See this ideal self clearly in your mind’s eye and mentally step into this version of yourself.
- As you open your eyes, fully embody this ideal self and carry this mindset throughout your day.
- Before taking any action, ask yourself, “Who am I being?” This alignment will guide your decisions and actions.
Step 5: Align Your Actions
Combine visualization with action. Visualization is mental action, but it must be paired with external actions to achieve results.
How to Align Actions:
- Being Leads to Doing: Your identity dictates your actions, which lead to results. Start with becoming your ideal self.
- Daily Inquiry: Ask how your ideal self would approach each task.
- Don’t worry about what you don’t Know instead execute on what you do know
For example, I started BizMindPro without a clear idea of monetization. I focused on posting high-quality content until I identified monetization opportunities.
Daily Visualization Checklist
- Before bed: Visualize your goal.
- In the morning: Step into your ideal self.
- Throughout the day: Visualize the process.
Daily Routine:
- Spend at least 10 minutes visualizing your goal.
- Reflect on your past attitudes and center yourself.
- Connect goal visualization to insights on the necessary process.
- Visualize stepping into your ideal self.
- Act in alignment with your ideal self at least once a day.
Conclusion
Visualization is a powerful tool for entrepreneurs to achieve their goals. By snapping out of your default mode visualizing your goals and processes, embodying your ideal self, aligning your actions, and maintaining focus and commitment, you can harness the power of your subconscious mind to turn you into an action taker who can transform businesses. Start incorporating these visualization exercises into your daily routine and watch how they transform your approach to life and business challenges.
