Comments on: Visualizations – The good, the bad, the ugly… http://EthicalBusinessBuilder.com/2010/06/05/visualizations-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/ Be an Ethical Entrepreneur, Marketer, and Business Builder Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:56:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Concojones http://EthicalBusinessBuilder.com/2010/06/05/visualizations-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/comment-page-1/#comment-1765 Concojones Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:03:32 +0000 http://EthicalBusinessBuilder.com/?p=513#comment-1765 Thanks for your reply. #1: You're right: it is very useful. I visualize parts of job interviews, for instance. #4: Absolutely. Vague is not effective. I love your elaboration about confidence as an entrepreneur. As to your remark "nothing to lose": with our degree and an eye for business, people like us can climb to the top in corporate life. Time spent in one's own venture is not spent on that. Especially not if you fail. That bugs me. That said, I really believe in following your heart (the venture) and disregarding what the people around you say, but if I'm honest it does bug me a little. Thanks for your reply.

#1: You’re right: it is very useful. I visualize parts of job interviews, for instance.

#4: Absolutely. Vague is not effective.

I love your elaboration about confidence as an entrepreneur. As to your remark “nothing to lose”: with our degree and an eye for business, people like us can climb to the top in corporate life.
Time spent in one’s own venture is not spent on that. Especially not if you fail. That bugs me. That said, I really believe in following your heart (the venture) and disregarding what the people around you say, but if I’m honest it does bug me a little.

]]> By: ethicalbusinessbuilder http://EthicalBusinessBuilder.com/2010/06/05/visualizations-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/comment-page-1/#comment-1748 ethicalbusinessbuilder Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:12:40 +0000 http://EthicalBusinessBuilder.com/?p=513#comment-1748 #1 is helpful in that it helps enhance absolutely everything you could physically do. World-class motorcycle and car racers can sit down and visualize racing around a track they're familiar with while sitting in a chair and be within a second of their actual race time. Weight training gains are increased even more than just physically performing the training when visualization is included. A method of overcoming fears includes visualizing the thing you fear step-by-step so that you can learn how to deal with the fear each step along the way. Great salesman will practice and visualize a 15 minute conversation for hours before it actually occurs to make sure they are completely prepared for all of the potential questions and responses... The list goes on and on. This is a very powerful part of visualization. :-) As for #4, I still tend to think "rich" is too vague. A white house with large landscape windows overlooking the pacific ocean with a 4-car garage and a waterfall shower is much more effective at motivating than trying to visualize a "mansion". As for my confidence, it's quite simple: 1. I've educated myself (through books, seminars, family, mentors, etc.) to know what it takes to be an entrepreneur. 2. There's nothing to lose. What's the absolute worst possible thing that could happen by buying a business? You fail and lose all your money. So what? In my mind it seems far worse to never try and so never fail at anything. That being the case, I don't intend or plan to ever fail but anytime you take a risk you have to be willing to deal with the worst-case scenario because no one can possibly predict or plan everything. :-) Thanks for the detailed responses! The dialogue is great and I'm looking forward to hearing more about your business ventures. #1 is helpful in that it helps enhance absolutely everything you could physically do. World-class motorcycle and car racers can sit down and visualize racing around a track they’re familiar with while sitting in a chair and be within a second of their actual race time. Weight training gains are increased even more than just physically performing the training when visualization is included. A method of overcoming fears includes visualizing the thing you fear step-by-step so that you can learn how to deal with the fear each step along the way. Great salesman will practice and visualize a 15 minute conversation for hours before it actually occurs to make sure they are completely prepared for all of the potential questions and responses… The list goes on and on. This is a very powerful part of visualization. :-)

As for #4, I still tend to think “rich” is too vague. A white house with large landscape windows overlooking the pacific ocean with a 4-car garage and a waterfall shower is much more effective at motivating than trying to visualize a “mansion”.

As for my confidence, it’s quite simple:
1. I’ve educated myself (through books, seminars, family, mentors, etc.) to know what it takes to be an entrepreneur.
2. There’s nothing to lose. What’s the absolute worst possible thing that could happen by buying a business? You fail and lose all your money. So what? In my mind it seems far worse to never try and so never fail at anything. That being the case, I don’t intend or plan to ever fail but anytime you take a risk you have to be willing to deal with the worst-case scenario because no one can possibly predict or plan everything. :-)

Thanks for the detailed responses! The dialogue is great and I’m looking forward to hearing more about your business ventures.

]]> By: Concojones http://EthicalBusinessBuilder.com/2010/06/05/visualizations-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/comment-page-1/#comment-1636 Concojones Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:40:55 +0000 http://EthicalBusinessBuilder.com/?p=513#comment-1636 Bryan, As for the 4 types of visualizations: #1 (weight training study): I've heard about similar studies, but I fail to see much practical value. Have you found any use for this technique so far, Bryan? #2 and #3: I'd call this "practising" #4 is the interesting kind of visualization IMO. It keeps the fire alive, turns it up even, thus helping you to go for it. Quoting from your blog: "you can imagine what it’s like to be [rich], however how does that help you achieve it? As far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t." I definitely think it can, by means of #4. It's good for your motivation and it's often good for your confidence. So I think this can be a great help (not a magical guarantee though). Let me go further. Something that has struck me is that you seem surprisingly confident about your chances as an entrepreneur. Which is good, but makes me wonder how that happened (and how I can get there, too). I think it's merely a matter of exposure (examples, mentors, father, seminars, books, even culture). But it's also safe to assume that you (unintentionally) visualized running a succesful business. It's something natural we do when we're looking forward to achieving a goal, and it happens to work to further motivate us (#4). That's why I've started to use it intentionally, lately. An example from my own life where I unintentionally visualized: at 15 I decided to learn Spanish and visualized myself casually use it and thus impress my friends who were unaware I knew Spanish -- oh vanity! :-) Bryan,

As for the 4 types of visualizations:
#1 (weight training study): I’ve heard about similar studies, but I fail to see much practical value. Have you found any use for this technique so far, Bryan?
#2 and #3: I’d call this “practising”
#4 is the interesting kind of visualization IMO. It keeps the fire alive, turns it up even, thus helping you to go for it.

Quoting from your blog:
“you can imagine what it’s like to be [rich], however how does that help you achieve it? As far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t.”
I definitely think it can, by means of #4. It’s good for your motivation and it’s often good for your confidence. So I think this can be a great help (not a magical guarantee though).

Let me go further. Something that has struck me is that you seem surprisingly confident about your chances as an entrepreneur. Which is good, but makes me wonder how that happened (and how I can get there, too). I think it’s merely a matter of exposure (examples, mentors, father, seminars, books, even culture). But it’s also safe to assume that you (unintentionally) visualized running a succesful business. It’s something natural we do when we’re looking forward to achieving a goal, and it happens to work to further motivate us (#4). That’s why I’ve started to use it intentionally, lately.
An example from my own life where I unintentionally visualized: at 15 I decided to learn Spanish and visualized myself casually use it and thus impress my friends who were unaware I knew Spanish — oh vanity! :-)

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