MALE ROLE MODELS

Thousands of possibilities for role models exist.  These lists are meant to be a start up suggestion of men and women of achievement in many areas of activity.  Start you own list of people that exhibit qualities your admire.  Please send us a list of your favorites so we can be more inclusive in our next edition.

FEMALE ROLE MODELS

CLEAR IMAGE

The more clearly you visualize the picture of what you want, the faster you will accomplish your goal.  A sharply focused goal opens up the reticular activating system to information that will help you to your goal.  If you cannot see yourself actually accomplishing the goal, you do not have a clear image and you more than likely will be unable to bring that goal into reality.

Vague 4 goals, like –more money, happiness, etc., will seldom be realized.

State 4 goals and then write out clear and specific ways that you visualize the goal being accomplished:

ACCOMPLISHED –  END RESULT

It very important that you LOCK-ON to the end result and all its parts. Visualize the end result clearly and vividly as through it were already accomplished, and then have faith that your creative subconscious will take care of sub – goals along the way.  Imagine ahead six months and state your goal in present tense as though the desired end results is “reality” for you.

List 4 goals and state them as though you already have accomplished them.

 ACCOUNTABILITY

“If it is going to be, it is up to me.  “This is the attitude you must have to bring your goals into reality.  If you turn over the accountability and responsibility for the success of your goals to family members or friends your chances of success are not very good.

List goals and then specifically describe how you are going to be personally accountable for getting them accomplished

TIME LIMITS

They can cause you to put things off, or press when the time

Limit you’ve set for yourself is too short.

CONFIDENTIAL

Share goals with those individuals who can help you attain them.  Use good judgement and prudence in re-vealing your goals because people will place obstacles in your path and find ways to get other people to work against you.  Reveal your goals only to those who can assist you in the realization of your goals.

ONGOING MODIFICATION

Update goals regularly.  Don’t lock-out spontaneous possibilities by feeling you have “arrived”.  Continually look for new points of departure.  You should be constantly stretching yourself and projecting out ahead as you are working towards a goal.  However, if you see you are about to reach your goal.  You should set goals just as high as you can honestly clearly see yourself accomplishing them.  Remember “seldom does an individual or group exceed their own expectations”.

IMPRINTING

Imprinting is the deliberate controlling and directing of the kinds of changes that you want to make.  Through the use of vivid imagery you bring about the end result on the sub-conscious level.  Through the constant repetition of the visual image you want, you imprint through a three step process.

A.)  Read the goal.

B.)  Picture vividly the end result.

C.)  Feel the emotion that goes along with the accomplishment of the goal.

Repeat this imprinting process several times each day, and your goals will be realized faster than you ever imagined.

“When things get me down ...

Visualization works for more than just sports.  It is extremely effective for increasing confidence and preparing for any type of situation, mental or physical.  Type C’s in business, politics, medicine, law and the arts whom we interviewed all used mental imagery to prepare for pressure situations.

Time Inc.’s Dick Munroe told us that as part his preparation for an important speech he imagines the whole environment.  “I will see in my mind what it looks like, who will be there, how they will be seated and how I want to come across.”

“Windmilling” is what Bettina Parker calls her process of mental rehearsal.  When Ms. Parker, the president of a large international marketing and consulting firm, is working on an important project, she visualizes it all in her head and rehearses it until it plays out perfectly.  She’ll often practice like this for days prior to a meeting to make sure she has everything worked out just right.

Physicians divided post-coronary patients into two groups.  One group was given a programe of daily jogging and exercise.  The other only did mental imagery.  “They imagined themselves jogging or pictured themselves in a beautiful meadow filling their

Lungs with wonderful fresh air and feeling the oxygen going through the whole body reaching the heart.”

After a year the results were identical for both groups.  Weight and body fat were down.  There was an increase in grip strength and EKG tracings.  Blood pressure was lowered and adrenaline production by the body was lowered.

Jack Nicklaus attributes 10 percent of his success to his setup, 40 percent to his stance and swing and 50 percent to the mental imagery he uses before he takes each stroke.Nicklaus is only one of the many world-class athletes who use visualization, the technique for creating and controlling mental images, to prepare for pressure situation.  Baseball great Joe Morgan visualize himself swinging a bat “even when I’m in the bathtub.”  Track star Ma Decker has imagined herself running the final lap of to 3,000-meter run in the 1984 Olympics more times the she can count.                                                                                         

Equally dramatic are the results of a research study involving three groups of students chosen at random, shooting basketball foul shots.  One group physically practiced foul shots for thirty minutes a day.  The second group did nothing.  The third group visualized themselves shooting foul shots for twenty minutes a day.  At the end of twenty days the first group which had practiced every day improved 24 percent.  The second group which had done nothing showed no improvement.  The third group which had only visualized themselves shooting fouls improved 23 percent!

“I never hit a shot, not even in practice,” says Jack Nicklaus, “without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my mind.  It’s like a color movie.  First I see the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and siting up high on the bright green grass.

WORDS = PICTURES = EMOTIONS