#2 Types of Visualizations to Use to Reach your Yearly Goals

 “Keep your eyes on the prize,” is a familiar saying for most of us. When it comes to you reaching your New Year’s Goals, visualizing the goal as having been achieved can make it much easier to obtain the desired effect. There are a lot of reasons this works:

Seeing is believing. What does it look like, this result, this goal? Can you picture yourself having been changed or having achieved your dream? If you can imagine it, you can reach it, and that’s where visualization comes in. What is visualization? At its core, visualization is nothing more than having a mental image of a future event.

Visualization works because it creates a pathway in the brain that says you've already accomplished the goal. That creates a learned behavior and a memory. Our minds, and even our bodies, then adjust to the new reality of you completing the process. The effect closely replicates the result obtained if you had completed the action.

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There are two types of visualization. These are Outcome Visualization and Process Visualization.

Outcome visualization is where you envision yourself achieving the result. For example, you picture yourself standing in the winner’s circle accepting accolades and signing autographs. It tells your neurons that you’re already there, you’ve made it.

Some people trigger this type of visualization by writing the goal out on paper and meditating on the result. Sometimes it’s accompanied by an image, either hand-drawn or clipped. The media has no bearing on the outcome, so long as the person doing the visualization can "see" it.

Process Visualization concentrates on the journey. Rather than seeing yourself in the winner’s circle, you visualize yourself running the marathon, leaping the hurdles, or presenting the sales pitch.

The power of this type of visualization is that it lets you change the process in your mind as you go. Going with the marathon example, you see each section of the race in detail, and you adjust the speed and technique in your mind. It’s a way to think through problems before they come up.

Either way, visualization can smooth the process no matter the type and no matter the ultimate goal. Getting a good visual will help you achieve the goal you’ve set yourself for not only this year but the years to come. For the best results, take time to visualize having reached your goal every day.