<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/marcus-aurelius-quote.png" width="305" height="157" alt="motivational quote about visualization" class="alignleft" />A wise man named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Marcus Aurelius</a> once said, “Our lives are what our thoughts make them.” If we want to achieve great things in life, we have to think great things about ourselves and see ourselves excelling in our minds. That’s exactly where visualization comes in. </p>
<p>As a little kid, any time I wanted to dance in a recital, compete in a pageant or participate in a science fair, my dad had me visualize myself being successful. He knew that this was a fundamental first step to performing well and achieving my goal. It also gave me a chance to see where I could fail and what hard work it would take, without my dad having to say it.  <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2014/04/five-ways-to-practice-visualization-for-results-you-want/" title="Permanent Link: Five Ways to Practice Visualization for Results You Want" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":2182,"date":"2014-04-25T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2021-05-08T17:38:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T22:38:49","slug":"five-ways-to-practice-visualization-for-results-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/04\/five-ways-to-practice-visualization-for-results-you-want\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Ways to Practice Visualization for Results You Want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/marcus-aurelius-quote.png\" width=\"305\" height=\"157\" alt=\"motivational quote about visualization\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>A wise man named <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marcus_Aurelius\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marcus Aurelius<\/a> once said, \u201cOur lives are what our thoughts make them.\u201d If we want to achieve great things in life, we have to think great things about ourselves and see ourselves excelling in our minds. That\u2019s exactly where visualization comes in. <\/p>\n<p>As a little kid, any time I wanted to dance in a recital, compete in a pageant or participate in a science fair, my dad had me visualize myself being successful. He knew that this was a fundamental first step to performing well and achieving my goal. It also gave me a chance to see where I could fail and what hard work it would take, without my dad having to say it.  <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/04\/five-ways-to-practice-visualization-for-results-you-want\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Five Ways to Practice Visualization for Results You Want\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}