| In order to be successful, we of course have to | | | | in our album. When you get nostalgic and look |
| have dreams and goals. Without them, there is no | | | | through your old photo albums, don't you start to |
| ambition or desire to be more then what we are. | | | | relive the moments to the point where you |
| Thinking about something we want to have or | | | | actually feel younger or can remember how your |
| achieve, however, isn't enough. | | | | were feeling at the time the photo was taken? |
| Many have heard of the story of the Harvard | | | | So if seeing something often enough, helps our |
| graduating class. They asked who had goals and | | | | mind to believe that it is possible, why don't we all |
| how many of them had written them down. Only | | | | have dream boards around our homes and goal |
| 3% had written them down and when they | | | | sheets in our pockets. I've personally seen such |
| checked in on those 3% twenty years later, they | | | | dream boards in the homes of millionaire |
| were earning ten times as much as the other | | | | associates of mine and seen folded up index |
| grads combined. First of all, the study didn't really | | | | cards in their wallets that have thirty or sixty day |
| exist other than in goal setting seminars and | | | | personal goals for health, business and other |
| books, but in reality, since that story has been | | | | things they want. Each time they look in their |
| told for decades, other studies have been done | | | | wallet, they see the card. Sometimes they take it |
| that do show astonishing results. | | | | out, unfold it and read what it says usually to |
| So lets look at the reality of it all. If we do write | | | | discover that they can cross something off as |
| down our goals or put pictures of things we | | | | accomplished. |
| desire or a lifestyle we hope to achieve one day | | | | In order to achieve our goals we need to see |
| on our refrigerator, it is no doubt going to keep | | | | them, either in writing or in picture form. When |
| us focused on them. We can go so far as to put | | | | we see them often enough, we believe and it is |
| ourselves in the goal by taking pictures of | | | | only a matter of time till we accomplish them. It |
| ourselves in that car we want or in front of the | | | | never fails to amaze me the stories I've heard |
| home we desire. We can have fun with it and put | | | | from hundreds of people over the years and |
| ourselves in any picture we want these days with | | | | witnessed in my own life. |
| computer software. | | | | If you have a personal story, share it as a |
| When we see ourselves in the picture often | | | | comment. |
| enough, it seems normal. Just like any other photo | | | | |