HOT TIP #4
RON G
HOLLAND - TOP BIZ GURU
HOT TIP #4
I don’t know how many
millionaires I have created since the publication of Talk and Grow Rich
in 1981, but it’s LOTS.
I know I have
turned many businesses and lives around and have spoken to many of those who
have attended my life-changing wealth-creating seminars and workshops.
Judging from
the feedback I get from people, I know FOR SURE there is one thing that REALLY
WORKS with unfathomable regularity and that is VISUALISATION.
I ask at my
workshop ‘How many studied geography, history, reading, writing and arithmetic
at school?’ All the hands go up.
I then ask
‘How many of you had a single lesson in how to use your brain and your mind
and were taught creative visualisation?’ Not a single hand goes up!!
To me that is
quite staggering and if anything the education system does everything it can to
stop ones full use of the brain and mind.
To operate
effectively and efficiently one must think in words and in PICTURES if one is to
come up with solutions to problems, success ideas and EUREKAS!
I often get
asked about visualisation and many find it hard to do. To succeed at it and
succeed in business and life there are a number of pointers:
There are
many ways to visualise and you need to find a way that works for you. I know
this because I find it incredibly hard to visualise myself. All the books make
it sound so easy! But I have struggled with it all my life. The only reason why
I persevere is that every time I do, incredible things happen in my life.
I have also talked to lots of people at the end of my seminars and workshops and these discussion have been invaluable. It would appear no two people visualise the same way. Some manage to create really good 3-D images inside their brain, while others appear to have just a sense of what is going on. I know the harder I concentrate on seeing a clearer image of what I want to happen to quicker it is likely to happen in the real world. The other thing that makes a HUGE difference for me is adding voices and conversations. I actually play out complete sceneries and transactions in as much visual and audio detail as I possible can for as many times as I can leading up to the actual event.
Most people
can get their business and deals get so far. For instance you may have one guy
develop a web site that is fantastic, but fails to get the hits on the site. He
needs to visualise traffic going to the site, emails going out, people telling
each other about the site and visualise every method possible of getting
customers to click on that site. The ideas and solutions will come. And if you
want to them to come quicker and faster hone up the vision!
Another guy
may have no problem at all setting up business meetings, pitching prospects and
talking the talk all day long. However he may have difficulty closing those
deals and coming away with the cheques. He needs to see himself closing the
deals, getting the clients as a genuine customers and walking out with the
cheques. He needs to see the deal process from start to finish, not just getting
the initial meeting (that’s the easy bit).
I often spend
early mornings and late evenings ‘seeing myself’ talking to my clients. I go
over the deals in great detail and many times I come up with ideas, bits of
paper, I books, quotes or research that are a vital part of the closing
procedure and are needed for the next meeting. Sometimes (and this happens a
lot!) when I am driving, taking a shower or playing with my little girl) I get a
flashes of inspiration, as a direct result of that visualisation, and I have to
write down the brilliant ideas or Eureka’s!
I deliberately try to see the missing link or failing that I constantly visualise all the bits that I can see clearly and then let the missing link appear. What I do know is that I could not solve my client’s problems or my own, without making EXTENSIVE use of visualisation.
To recap. I
make sure I spend time DAILY thinking through in pictures, deals, my problems,
my clients problems, what I want to happen in their businesses and in my
business and where I want to get to.
A property developer I know sits outside properties he’s thinking of buying and creates all sort of options in his mind of how he may best capitalise on a particular property. An IFA I know spend at least thirty minutes every day thinking through in pictures how to increase his database of high net worth individuals. His database grows daily and so does his business. He tells me visualisation changed his life! A mail order client of mine spends time seeing packages go out by the thousand. He comes up with brilliant ideas for products and also (even more importantly) the copy of how to sell them. He tells me visualisation made him a millionaire!
Many people
get frustrated and impatient because they don’t see immediate results when
they start the practice of visualisation.
It’s like most things. No pain no gain. You have to go through certain barriers before the rewards come. You have to keep at it until you mind accepts the programs you are inserting and start to come up with the output. The input is the vision of the things you would like to happen and the output is the success ideas or Eureka’s! that your mind will deliver. Allow time for the mind to be able to assimilate everything you are programming into it and allow time for it to do is computerised work in coming up with workable solutions. The clearer the vision and the more you relax and let go the more PROFOUND RESULTS you will achieve.
As well as
clear visualisations you should take time out for total non-thinking. MEDITATION
is one the great keys for really getting the mind to deliver. Don’t get hung
up on the word MEDITATION. You don’t have to sit cross-legged staring at a
candle. What you DO NEED TO DO is slip into the ALPHA STATE and let it happen.
Slipping into
Alpha is easy and you need to find your own way of doing is. It is the total
state of bliss when you find (at last) you have stopped talking to yourself.
You may find
you can do this while sitting in an armchair just relaxing, but more than likely
you will find it in one of a hundred other ways. My students of success have
reported back to me over the years and have come up with hundreds if not
thousands of ways of slipping into ALPHA and letting it happen. Some of them
jog, ride bikes, or work out in the gym. Others go swimming, skate on boards or
skiing. Others slip into ALPHA when they have long showers, do gardening or walk
in the countryside.
Others strip the wallpaper off the wall, do decorating, go fishing, play golf, cut down trees or play with model trains. BUT THIS IS THE IMPORTANT BIT. First recognise that VISUALISATION AND MEDITATION ARE THE KEYS TO LIFE AND BUSINESS SUCCESS. Simple as that!!! Then go about the task in your own way, that works for you, to get the job done. Eurekas! will follow. Good luck - see you next week.