Hey everyone, it's Carrie here! So, one of my favorite quotes of all time is by the
late Zig Ziglar, and he said "If you want to reach a goal, you must see the
reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal." And it's so
true! The most successful people around do this;
they clearly visualize exactly what it is that they want, to the extent that
it's almost like it's happened! They see it so clearly in their mind and they feel
it so clearly, but it's like it's already happened. It's like it's a done deal. And
there is so much power in that. So, in this video I want to talk all about
visualization, and I want to talk about how you can actually start to visualize
achieving what you want; so visualizing achieving the results that you want to
achieve. And I've already privileged because as a really young child my dad
taught me all about the power of visualization. And so, for example, when I
was a teenager, he actually bought me the Rich Dad Poor Dad books, and when I
was reading them I decided that I wanted to be financially free. And so, I used to
imagine getting my bank statements through and opening them up and seeing a
certain amount of money in my bank, and I kind of went to the extent of getting a
bank statement and Tippexing out the balance, and writing in what I wanted to
see in my bank account. And I actually stuck it in this goal book I had at the
time, and I said look it all the time, but I used to lie in bed at night
visualizing it; seeing it; seeing that envelope turn up through the door
and opening it, pulling out my bank statement and seeing that amount on my
bank statement, so so clearly, and I felt how it would feel when I opened that
letter... And it happened! There is so much power in it. Like with most people, I did
kind of go off track at some points, and I went through a phase of starting to
visualize all the things I didn't want to achieve. And I find this is a mistake
a lot of us make, where we spent a lot of time during the day visualizing all the
things that might go wrong or visualizing all this terrible stuff that
might happen. You know, a lot of people lie in bed at night
worrying about things and thinking the worst-case scenarios,
and, you know, I am so guilty of it. I spent a lot of time doing it. But having
been one of those people that have visualized what I want, seen it clearly,
and also been one of those people that have, kind of, got stuck with it all and
ended up visualizing all the things I didn't want, I can really clearly see - by
it happening to me - the impact that that has on my life.
I know that when I visualize
what I want, it has a dramatic impact on my life in a positive way. And when I
visualize all the things I don't want, it has a dramatic impact on my life
in all the ways I don't want! So, I feel like this is so unbelievably crucial
in order to achieve what it is that you want to achieve. And visualizing has
been amazing for me, and some weird stuff starts to happen. So, I just want to share
a story with you. So when I launched the magazine, I used to visualize, very
clearly, the people that I wanted on my front cover: the people who I wanted to do
cover interviews with. And one of them was Michael Gerber, the best-selling
author of the E-Myth. And it's one of my favorite books of all time, and I had
built my first business through using the principles in his book. And so, I
really wanted to interview him, and I'd started to send him emails and I'd done
all sorts, and I couldn't get in touch with him. But, I visualized, very very clearly,
the front cover. I knew exactly what it was going to look like, I knew what the
picture of him I wanted to be on the front cover was. I saw the strap
line, I saw the header I saw everything. I was really clear on my mind. I could
see this, I imagined how it would feel to turn around to tell people, "Yeah,
Michael Gerber is on the next front cover!" And how I would feel when I hit
the "Send" button on that email that went out to all those women, with the magazine,
with Michael Gerber on the front cover. I pictured it so clearly in my mind,
it had happened! It had already happened, I was certain of it, I just didn't know HOW
it's gonna happen... And so I'd been trying to get in touch
with him, and it wasn't really happening, and then one day I just decided to go on
his fan page on Facebook. And when I went on his fan page, for some reason, I just
thought I click on the pictures. So, I was looking through his photos, and one of the
first ones I saw was this quote, and I thought, "That looks really familiar...
I'm sure that's one of mine..." And so, I went back to my Facebook fan page and
started flicking through the photos, and there it was! This quote, that I had
created - that I had actually made - on Michael Gerber's fan page! So he had to
somehow have seen my quote from my fan page, downloaded it and uploaded it to
his fan page. I mean, what are the chances Michael Gerber had seen a quote
I had made?? I couldn't believe it! So, I wrote this little comment that said something
like, "I'm really flattered you liked my picture, maybe I could interview you now?!" So,
they got back in touch with me straight away and set the interview up, and spoke
to him, and it was amazing! And I sometimes think that maybe there's more
to all of all of it than meets the eye kind of thing, and maybe that when you
visualize so clearly what you want to achieve, it's almost like your brain
starts to believe it's already happened, and you start to figure out a way, or,
you know, different ways to actually make it happen. And you come up with new ideas
that you would never normally have come up with, or different things, different
actions you take in order to make it happen.
I believe there's so much power in it. And the same thing happened when I was
was nominated for an award last year, and I wanted to win this award so badly. And
I would picture every night before I went to bed, every morning when I woke up,
I did a guided visualization, which was really relaxing, put me in a really
relaxed state of mind, and then I got to create these movies in my mind. And I
would picture being stood on that stage, and I would hear them say, "And the winner
is... Carrie Green!", and I would just feel, so intensely, how I was going to feel, and
hear the crowd clapping and cheering. And then, I would picture it, and then how
amazing it would be. And I knew that, if I won and the award, that I would get a
helicopter mentoring session with Lord Bilimoria. So I started to picture that
too. I imagined getting on that helicopter with him.
I imagined being sat with him, in the helicopter, talking to him.
I imagined looking out of the window of the helicopter, with the thought of, "This
is going to happen, and I'm gonna look out the window, and this
will be how I imagined it to be." And it was so vivid, how I pictured it. And so, that
day, when they announced the winner, when I was stood on that stage, and they said the
words, "And the winner is... Carrie Green!", it was like it had already happened. It was
like I had already experienced it, because all the same emotions flooded
into me, that I had imagined day-in day-out, from the moment I knew I was
nominated to the day I won. And it was just... It was incredible. It is incredible.
The power of visualization is amazing. So, I really want to share with you at the
strategy that I use to visualize, and it's a really effective way to visualize.
So, first off I want to say that one of the most powerful times to do this is at
night time, just before you go to sleep. So, when you're lying in bed at night,
before you drift off, take five to ten minutes to start really visualizing what
you want to achieve; start visualizing the results that you
want to achieve. And when you're lying there, how I do it; I like to close my
eyes and get myself in a relaxed state. I actually listen to a guided
visualization to do it, but you don't have to. If you do, then there are tons online, and
a really great friend and mentor of mine, Jason Jackman, created a 20-minute
guided visualization for me, which if you want it is on the website. But you don't
have to, you can just do it yourself, the way I'm about to explain. So, close
your eyes and take a few deep breaths in, and just try to really relax yourself. And,
in fact, a great way to relax yourself is to- so often, we carry so much
tension around in the jaw, and if you just let your jaw go loose - and don't
have your teeth clenched together, just let your jaw go loose - it can be a great
way to start loosening you up. So just try and relax, close your eyes, and then
the way I do it is, I first start off by almost imagining watching your movie. So
watching a big movie screen. And I imagine what I want to achieve
happening in front of me and I'm seeing it happening. And then, as it kind of
builds and develops, I put myself in the picture. So, for example, when when I was
imagining winning the award, I would start off by seeing it happening. So I'd
see myself stood on the stage; I'd see the audience. And then I put myself in that
picture. So I would be on the stage. And then I was looking around and
thinking of the things I could hear. Like people in the audience, what could I see?
How dark / how light was the room? And what I could hear. And then I would be stood
there, and I'd imagine them saying, "And the winner is... Carrie Green!" And I'd hear it.
And then I would just feel how I'd feel. Like sometimes it'd give me goosebumps
because I'd be visualizing it so intensely, I just knew how it's going to
feel. It was a done deal! And then I'd visualize the whole thing. And
the thing is, the more clear you can make it, the more emotive you can
make it - so connecting more with the emotional side - how do you feel? You know,
what sounds can you hear: making them louder. It all adds to it being more
powerful and more real. So it's like it's already
happened. So do that for like five to ten minutes, or however long you want, if you
want to do it longer, then great. And then, once you're finished, if you have
any doubts, or any any thoughts, or part of you that doesn't think that it's
gonna happen, you've got to release them! Release those feelings. And one of the
ways I do this is, I always think, I always imagine... For example, imagine if
you were a year down the line, and if I told you, "In a year's time you, will have
achieved this on this date. You will have achieved this on this date. You will have
achieved this on this date", how does that make you feel? Because when I think of
that, it makes me feel relieved. It makes me stop hanging on so tightly
to the doubts and the worries and the what-ifs and the what could go wrong. And
it helps me to release it all. And I just release it, and then I trust! I trust
that it's going to happen, I trust that it's going to figure itself
out. And, if it helps you, you could also say maybe an affirmation. So you could say
something like, "All my needs are met", or, "I trust that I'm going to make all of this
happen. I trust that this will happen, and that I have everything I need in order
to make it happen." And just say something like that and believe it. Let go; just
release the doubts and the worries; just release them. Even if you just say, "I release my
doubts and worries", that is enough to do it. And just do that and then just trust
that you will make it happen. And just say to yourself, "This is a done deal!
It is a done deal. It's happened." When I won that award already happened
so many times in my head before it actually happened. So, it's so powerful to
do this. Honestly, the most successful people in the world do this all the time,
they train the mind. Our mind is such a powerful, powerful tool, and if we can use
it to visualize what we want, we can achieve amazing things. So let's do
that! Let's visualize what we want, instead of what we don't want, and start
attracting better things into our lives. So, I hope you've enjoyed this video. If
you have them please share it and leave me a comment; I love reading the comments!
And I will see you next time!