<p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft" title="Bob Proctor - motivational speaker and author" alt="Bob Proctor - motivational speaker and author" src="http://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/bob-proctor-07.jpg" />Have you ever wondered how children can sit through replays of their favorite Lion King or Little Mermaid video? It amazes me that they&#8217;ll watch the same show every day without a single complaint or request for something new.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s more amazing, though, is that adults do the very same thing with their days.  The majority of men and women play &#8220;movies&#8221; in their heads, day after day, relentlessly focusing on past events, most of which are unpleasant and disturbing experiences. If they&#8217;re actually able to stop their contemplation of past events, then they allow impressions of their current surroundings and recent results to govern their thoughts.  <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2011/09/if-you-can-visualize-it-then-you-can-do-it-by-bob-proctor/" title="Permanent Link: If You Can Visualize It, Then You Can Do It By Bob Proctor" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":692,"date":"2011-09-01T09:12:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T14:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=692"},"modified":"2015-09-18T11:08:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T16:08:14","slug":"if-you-can-visualize-it-then-you-can-do-it-by-bob-proctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/09\/if-you-can-visualize-it-then-you-can-do-it-by-bob-proctor\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Can Visualize It, Then You Can Do It By Bob Proctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Bob Proctor - motivational speaker and author\" alt=\"Bob Proctor - motivational speaker and author\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/bob-proctor-07.jpg\" \/>Have you ever wondered how children can sit through replays of their favorite Lion King or Little Mermaid video? It amazes me that they&#8217;ll watch the same show every day without a single complaint or request for something new.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more amazing, though, is that adults do the very same thing with their days.  The majority of men and women play &#8220;movies&#8221; in their heads, day after day, relentlessly focusing on past events, most of which are unpleasant and disturbing experiences. If they&#8217;re actually able to stop their contemplation of past events, then they allow impressions of their current surroundings and recent results to govern their thoughts.  <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/09\/if-you-can-visualize-it-then-you-can-do-it-by-bob-proctor\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: If You Can Visualize It, Then You Can Do It By Bob Proctor\" 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\/692"}],"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=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}