Lets suppose you want to triple your income in the next 2 years or double the revenue of your department, or meet and marry a wonderful person, here is a formula that can help you make your dream come true.
Say the word VIVA and apply each letter in the word to your goal.
V – Visualize the outcome that you want.
Several times a day, take a moment to see yourself in your mind’s eye with your goal accomplished. Make the picture of your accomplishment vivid, big, colorful, close up and life like. See yourself functioning in your future position with great joy and a deep sense of meaning. See yourself cheering and clapping as the figure you visualize is announced or the ceremony is being conducted.
When you habitually visualize a goal, you are programing your brain to help you achieve it.
One new drug rep wanted to become number one in her state. She had hundreds of experienced competitors, so she put the words “ Number One” on the dashboard of her car and every time she saw it, she visualized herself at the annual meeting walking up to receive her prize and …. she did.
I — Intend that the goal will materialize.
To intend means to adjust the attitude of your mind and body to fall in line with what you really want.
Right now, for practice, intend to pick up a book with your right hand. Don’t pick it up but intend to pick it up. Immediately you will notice that tension increases in the muscles that you would use to pick up the book, your posture will automatically change to match your intention and make it a little easier to pick up the book. Your whole physiology would be geared toward picking up the book.
In the same way, when you set your intention to achieve your special goal, your physiology will change to make it easier for you to do it. When you intend it in your mind, your attitude and physiological state will change so as to attract the things, people and circumstances that are consistent with the goal you have intended.
V- Verbalize your goal.
Talk your intention to achieve your goal as often as you can. Tell only the right people. Beware of naysayers. Create a small group of your colleagues or friends and meet every Tuesday for lunch and use 11 minutes to talk about your goal. Read about the subject of your goal as well. Surround yourself with video and audio programs about it and have detailed conversations about your goal to the people you love. Be obsessed with it and it will more likely come to pass.
A – Assume the role that you would have in your future goal.
Pretend that you have accomplished the goal and start acting and living as you would if the goal was already achieved. Act like it. If, for example, your goal is to inspire your employees to bring in an extra one million dollars of revenue, begin to act like a great inspiring manager, dress like one, talk like one. Look people in their eyes and let them know they can conquer the world. Act as you would if your goal was already accomplished.
Acting like the person you want to be, will trigger new feelings in you and around you that will motivate you and your team to do what it takes to pursue the goal with gusto.
So to achieve your important goal, think of the word VIVA and put each letter into action.