Goal Setting Success

Goal Setting Success - Practicing Your Future Perfectly
By Rick Seymour

When you finish reading this paragraph, close your eyes and put yourself in this picture: You are standing on the roof of a 30-story building. You are very aware of the fact that there is no wall, no guardrail, nothing to prevent you from falling. With your eyes closed, imagine yourself walking to the edge of the building, planting your toes right on the edge, and looking straight down 30 stories. Now close your eyes and walk to the edge of that building.

How did that feel? Many people find they can’t force themselves to even imagine doing such a thing. Those of you who ‘did it’ probably experienced some fear and trepidation and had a very real physiological response – you may have broken out in a sweat, you may have felt the hair on the back of your neck stand up, you may have felt the muscles in your neck and shoulders cramp up or any other type of response that would have been typical if you had really walked to the edge of a 30-story building.

Have you ever been in a serious car accident or a had a very serious close call, that whenever you thought about it days or even months later, you could once again feel a surge of adrenaline go through you? Just thinking about it and imagining the consequences makes you ‘feel’ exactly what you felt when it first happened. You get the same physiological response, and yet you are perfectly safe as you sit and think about it.