Visualisation

Today The Successity Blog discusses an important tool in your armoury of success - Visualisation.

What if you find if hard to define your goals? Well, you could doodle in your note book until the light dawns, but one thing you could also do is try to visualise yourself having achieved them.

Visualisation is a powerful tool. Screenwriters, directors and film producers visualise all the time. When I plot out a scene in a movie I am writing, I play the scene out in my mental cinema to see how it might look on the screen. One friend of mine who is a top producer told me that he learned to visualise early and whenever he reads a script it always plays out visually in his mind rather than verbally on the page. In that way he knows whether the script will make a good move or not.

It's not always easy to do, especially whey you are reading on the page. But try it. They say it takes three weeks to form a habit, so whenever you are reading a novel (or any book for that matter) force yourself to visualise for three weeks and soon you will find yourself doing it naturally.

I regularly visualise what it might be like for me to have achieved my goals. Sometimes you might surprise yourself at what you visualise. With regard to success at screenwriting you might be intrigued to know that I don’t visualise me driving my Mercedes down Hollywood Boulevard or diving into my swimming pool in the garden of my mansion in Beverley Hills, but rather sitting at my desk typing out a screen in my current home with a cat on my lap and a malt whiskey by my side.

Practice your visualisation now. If you’re unsure of a goal, grasp it, close your eyes, put on some quiet, soft music, close your eyes tight and “project” your visualisation onto the front of your brain. Then write down what you have visualised in your doodling notebook (your “doodle-book” as I will call it). Then you might develop a real sense about whether it is the right goal for you.

Visualisation is an important weapon in your success armoury. Use it.