They took three groups of people
and put them on a basketball court,
and they just had them do three throws
and saw how many points they scored.
And what they did at the end
is they went through group A, B and C
and gave them different instructions.
They said the group A:
"For the next 30 days, I want you to
practice for an hour a day. Go on
the court and practice those free throws."
They said the group B:
"I don't want you to go out on the
court but I still want you to practice
every single day,
but without touching the ball.
I just want you to practice in your mind.
See yourself,
visualise yourself
successfully throwing free throws."
And they went to group C and said:
"We don't want you to practice at all.
For the next 30 days, don't even
think about basketball. Don't touch
a basketball."
They followed up 30 days later
and they saw surprising results.
Group A, who practiced each day for
an hour a day on the court,
they improved 24%, right?
Because practice makes progress.
Practice makes progress.
Group C, which is the group that
didn't touch a basketball and
they didn't even think about basketball,
there was no progress.
No practice, no progress.
What was striking though was group B.
Those individuals that
didn't go on the court,
they didn't put on their sneakers
and throw a ball, they just
practice successfully in their mind,
they improved 23%,
just 1% less than the people that
actually went on the court to practice.
I mean, this is evidence that
your mind is powerful.
You'll find that athletes
like Roger Bannister,
they will visualise themselves having success.
So you'll find a great athlete,
they don't just do physical training,
they mentally train themselves to see
the result in advance.
So with this lesson, what
I want you to do is practice the art
of visualisation.
I want you to imagine the perfect day.
What would a limitless day be like for you
from the moment you get up
to when you go to bed.
Because if you can see it here
you can create it out here.
Because what you vividly imagine
you're rehearsing.
One of the challenges is
a lot of people use their visualisation to
get the results they don't want in life
and by visualising it over and over again,
they're actually preparing and rehearsing
for failure.
Visualising all the things that can
go wrong, all the things they're fearing
and then their attention goes there
and they're mentally rehearsing failing
on stage, or failing on that exam,
or failing when they're going to meet
that person on that date. And they're
practicing in their mind.
Here is your lesson:
as you're going through and constructing
your limitless day, you're rehearsing that
and your attention goes there.
Remember that your feelings are
the language of your body and that
your thoughts are the language of your mind.
My goal for you to become limitless is to
imagine your perfect day,
your perfect moment. I want you to
imagine it, visualise it, see it, feel it,
believe in it, and then
work daily for it.
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