Creating Memories for the Future

Creating Memories for the Future

Before he had finished the exercise you could clearly see, he now had a strategy that he would use time and again to visualise and create his future in exquisite detail.

I shouldn’t have been surprised; this was exactly the reason that I include the Memories for the Future exercise in my NLP for Business Leaders seminar.

In fact it is a strategy that I have used many times. It was the tool that I used when I wrote Take the Luck out of Selling and it was the strategy I used to create my vision for our Franchise Business.

Someone once said...This only works and this visualisation strategy does just that...It only works!

So how do you do it? Create memories for the future I mean.

Firstly you need to have something in mind that you would like to achieve. Now if you are going to do this exercise properly you might as well choose something huge and audacious. Perhaps something even life changing.

Now imagine yourself on a time line, with your future out in front of you and your past behind you.
Visualise a place in the future where you have already achieved your audacious goal. Notice where on your timeline that is and walk out until you reach the point at which you have achieved it.

Now use the power of your imagination and pay attention to what you are seeing at the time of achievement. Notice what you are hearing , feeling and experiencing. Make the memory bright and as vivid as you can.

Now turn around and look at where you have come from, which is now in your past. Notice the journey you have made. Look at the milestones you have passed through.

Now walk back down your time line and appreciate the milestones.

When you get back to the point at which your journey started, turn around and look to the place where you achieved this wonderful goal and develop a real sense of appreciation for having now achieved it and what it has done for you.

From this starting point, now turn around and look into your past. You are looking for resources. Things that you have used before perhaps and have now stopped using. Or perhaps it is someone that you used to turn to before for help, advice or encouragement. What did they teach you that you could now use as a resource.

Walk back down your time line to the point where this asset is and pick it up. When you have arrived at this time just spend a few moments thinking about how you are going to use it.

Return to the point where you started your journey and then walk along your time line again, to the point where you have achieved this incredible goal and notice as you walk down the path how this resource or asset is affecting the journey. Is it making the journey shorter? Is it making it easier perhaps? Or maybe there are fewer milestones?

Now when you reach the point in your future again, where you have already achieved this amazing life changing goal, once again pay attention to what you are seeing, what you can hear, feel and are experiencing. Make it vivid bright and real. Also notice who else is sharing this experience of satisfaction at having had achieved this with you. What are they saying, how are they encouraging you.

Now you have created a more compelling future, think ....what else could you use the incredibly powerful tool for?

The next NLP for Business Leaders seminar is on 27th October, Endeavour House, Stansted.
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