Visualization comes more easily to some of us than others, but everyone can learn to use the focus of a vision to become a more powerful deliberate creator.

I am a very visual person. I see images and they are often emblazoned on my mind. This can be a liability for a “deliberate creator” because it means that I can easily vividly focus on what I don’t want. If you have a visual learning style, you may want to have a few tools for letting go of the images you don’t want to be focusing on and replacing them with the ones you DO want.

In the Abraham-Hicks teachings, they say “Look around less. Imagine more.” This is because when we keep looking at “what is”, we keep validating the current experience. Fine, when you like what you see, but what about when you are seeking improvement?

I noticed that I  have a very powerful ability to recall what I have seen and hold the image in my mind. How I turn that into an asset in deliberate creating is to use the power of my imagining to create even more vivid images than those I am currently looking at. Here are two ways to do that:

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Have you ever noticed that when professional athletes make a point or a goal that they celebrate that goal in the moment? Whether it is the dance in the end zone of a football game, or a fist pump or “come on” in a tennis match, athletes know how important it is to keep up their energy by focusing on their success. People who play games for a living know how to celebrate.

If you are like a lot of people, you don’t often spend much time recognizing yourself for your successes. You probably recognize that you have accomplished your goal, to some degree. Perhaps you also do some of these things:
* Criticize yourself for taking too long
* Tell yourself you didn’t do it well enough
* Immediately start working on your next goal

This is a problem because the feeling of success is so important for creating happiness. When you take the time to pat yourself on the back, you build up your own self-esteem and your sense of self-worth. You also spend time basking in the feeling of joy that comes from the success. You may have been taught that it is wrong to “blow your own horn” and have mistakenly believed that to mean that you shouldn’t talk about your accomplishments. Maybe you worry that others will think you are boastful.

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