Host: Can I envision myself accomplishing this goal?
Gary Ryan Blair: Everybody, when you set a resolution, you really need to visualize what the outcome is going to be. The best way to describe vision is a desired future state.
A very good technique or just a metaphor to use is go into your kitchen and open up a cookbook and just pick one of those from Martha Stewart or Emeril Lagasse or one of these folks. What you will find is in a good quality cookbook you will see a gorgeous picture that jumps out of the page and that maybe a soufflé, it maybe something as simple as a cupcake, but regardless of the picture or regardless of what it is you are trying to cook, that picture represents a desired future state.
You can clearly see what you are trying to accomplish before it takes place. That's really what a successful resolution is all about. As you take the time to visualize where you see yourself to be? What you want to do? The things you want to require or the status if you will that you want to attain and you visualize that clearly before you even take that first step. I promise you there is not one astronaut who ever walked on the moon without visualizing walking on the moon. That's just the way that whole process works.
There is not one athlete who has won an Olympic gold medal, who when they were 5,6 or maybe 15 years old did not visualize themselves on a medal stand with that gold medal. There is not one actor who has won an Oscar, an Emmy or a Golden Globe who has not seen another actor and projected themselves from that situation and who has given their Oscar acceptance speech.
Maybe when they were 12 or 14 old because that's what their passion was. This works, we see it happen in sports, we see it in entertainment and it should happen in your life on a daily basis, especially when it comes your resolutions.
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