We grew up reading fascinating fairy tales. It encouraged us to dream. We just had to close our eyes and the prince and princesses became real; castles came to life; magic wands made wishes come true; there was always victory of the good over evil; witches failed; goodness prevailed. We could listen to the same story everyday and still experience the surprise and the feeling of relief when ‘they lived happily ever after’. Fairy tales use the powerful tool of imagination and Visualization. But as we grew older we lost this fascination. Why? Because we became logical beings subject to rational thinking, devoid of imagination.
Florence Chadwick was the first woman ever to swim across the English Channel twice both ways. When she first tried to swim the twenty-six miles between Catalina Island and the California Coastline, she had to give up as heavy fog set in. Two months later, she tried the same and completed it successfully, in spite of facing the same challenge of impermeable fog. So what was different this time? During the two months before her second attempt, she spent hours visualizing the image of effortlessly swimming through the dense fog with her eyes focused only on the shoreline. The hours spent in this repeated visualization gave her the capability to face a situation that had now become familiar to her.
Creative visualization uses the power of the mind as it trains our sub conscious to strive to make our images a reality. Transform the visualizations to pen and paper, and bingo! You have a double guarantee of giving life to all your goals. A natural power given to us that does supernatural wonders!
“If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.” – Zig Ziglar
Leaders are people who are able to keep their teams on track and highly motivated up until the goal in achieved and beyond. With dreams getting bigger, goals getting tougher, competition getting tighter and the platform getting more globalized, the need for Leadership skills that has an unwavering focus on objectives has become indispensible. True leaders should be motivated and not discouraged by today’s fast paced and unpredictable marketplace. Leadership training programs are oriented towards bringing such outcomes in an organization. After all, leadership development lies in making the impossible look possible with a lot of conviction!
