2.6.5       Visualizing and animating goals
 

If a goal is correctly formulated it contains information that will be experienced by our primary sensory systems – hearing (audio), sight (visual) and touch (kinesthetic) upon achieving the goal..

• Formulate and write down one or two sentences as to the direction of a goal – "What do I want?"
  • Visualizing a goal
    • We will continue building your goal. At the outset, see it with your own eyes as if you had already achieved it yourself and now were experiencing it.
      • What are the specific things you see that evidence that the goal has been achieved? Smiling faces of your team members? Charts on flipchart uncovering a successful direction of processes? Blue summer skies above a lake and you swimming across the lake? Write it down
      • What are the specific things you hear? It may be a sound of a plane taking off, somebody's voice congratulating you or you yourself saying "We did it!" Write it down! What do you tell yourself? "It really works!" "I am feeling good!" "I made it!" Add this to your notes
      • What do you feel? The pleasant weight of the first sample in your hand? Comfort when relaxing back in your chair with feet on your table? Satisfaction with the program that really works? Joy for a successful accomplishment of a work? Ebb of adrenaline when the team hails you?
      • Often it is the sensor system in which it was most difficult to obtain the result that satisfies your goal most even though (or maybe because) you were less aware of it
        
• Specifying a goal
  • Now we will get more details, this time as observers (or as if you were watching a movie on achieving the goal and were playing the main part). Three months have passed since that moment and you have achieved your goal.
    • Where will you be at the moment when you realize that the goal is achieved? Be there now. Imagine the place, add all the details you notice: the color of walls or skies, furniture or trees, pictures on the walls, the view from the window, or anything else that makes the place definite and animated. Write it down
    • Who is with you? What are they wearing? What do their faces look like? Add everything that is important: a nicely bound final report, your sack next to a tree, a shining car in front of the door, a bundle of banknotes that is essentially thicker that on other paydays.
    • Listen for a while! What do you hear at the moment when you learn that you have achieved your goal? Is it the wind running among trees or the boss congratulating you on a successfully accomplished job? Pay attention to intonations and speed of speech! Note them down
    • Then, watch yourself at the moment of glory! How are you standing or sitting? What are you wearing and how are you feeling dressed like this? How are you breathing? What is your expression like? Please, write down everything!
  • Now you must have written down a sufficient amount of details to know that you have achieved the goal. How to be aware that the details are enough? Find an assistant and tell him/her about the goal and the way you will know that you have achieved it. Ask the person to listen to you to learn the following: if he/she enters the room at the moment when you were telling about the proof for reaching the goal, could he/she tell without asking you that you have reached the goal. If not, ask the person to help you to learn more details!
    
• Future testing of a goal.
  • Now ask that your assistant says aloud the following phrases. Your task is to experience completely everything your assistant says and check in the end to which extent the goal is the one you want to reach.
    • "Now three months have passed and we are in the future. You have achieved your goal! Be there now!
    • "You see ...... (and include here the visual details you were told as an assistant)!
    • "You hear ....... (include here the audio details)! Tell yourself include the phrases told to yourself in the previous dialogue)!
    • "Feel ...... (include touch details)!"
    • "And now check if this is precisely what you want......! Maybe something is missing .......?"
      
• Upon accomplishing this task, the goal is set!!!! Now you must plan how to achieve it and start working.