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Setting and achieving goals is one of the central keys to personal and professional success. Putting your goals down as a concrete statement of what you want and linking the achievement of those goals to a specific timeline, is essential to actually getting what you want. Other techniques like sharing the goals with others to enhance accountability and reading the goal aloud are a couple of ways to reinforce goal achievement. However, a far higher degree of success with goal achievement is assured when "creative visualization" is applied to both goal setting and implementation.

When we set a goal and capture it in writing, we have a word picture of what an outcome will be when our efforts are finished and completed. If we use those words to create a mental image in our mind, we now can "see" within our brain what things look like when that goal has already been achieved. Creative visualization is simply seeing things, your work, your relationships, even yourself, the way you want them to be when your outcomes have been achieved.

By using this amazing tool, we can harness our emotions, our concentration, and our focus so we can point them at a brilliant, vivid mental picture to achieve what we have visualized. As we keep replaying these images in our mind, almost like a movie, we are using the art of creative visualization to move our actions in the direction of these powerful, positive thoughts.

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Take an inventory of your life, a snapshot of where you were last year and where you are today.

Many of us tend to stay in our comfort zone. We don't speak in front of crowds, even when asked. We don't get involved in different volunteer organizations because it may mean that we need to come out of our shell. We don't speak up at a meeting because we don't want to attract attention, or we're not sure what others will think.

So, why change? Why should we come out of our comfort zone and stretch a little at least?

Simply because it is good for us and it is good for those around us.

People who exercise after a long sabbatical from any strenuous activity usually experience aches and pains at first. Their body goes into an allergic state, breaking out in sweat and shortness of breath. Before long though, after a regular diet of healthy movement, their threshold becomes greater and higher as their body becomes fit and healthy.

The same can be said when we stretch out of our daily mundane lifestyle. We become capable of handling more, of giving more, of being a better person than we ever thought we could be. We develop goals and dreams we never thought possible. That lifestyle we always wanted but never thought possible suddenly comes within reach.

Even when things don't go as planned; an energizing person who has become a positive thinker will learn from the experience and grow from it.

So, how can you turn your life into a daring adventure?

For now, let's concentrate on today and your day-to-day life. Where can you turn life into an adventure? Here are some suggestions:

- If you can, how about leaving the car at home and walking to where you want to go - or even more daring - ride a bicycle.

- How about trying a new meal every time you go to a restaurant?

- Say hello to that new person at work.

- Start a conversation instead of waiting to join in. Think of a list of question or statements that you could use to start that conversation.

- Buy the bright-colored, stand-out-from-the-crowd shirt, instead of the low-key blend-in type that says, "I'm practical".

- Get up twenty minutes early and read a book.

- Go see a movie you thought would be boring - you may be pleasantly surprised.

- Get involved in a sport.

- Take a course from Toastmasters.

- Learn to belly dance.

- Say yes to doing something you fear, especially when others believe in you and are already encouraging you.

- Learn Karate or some kind of self-defense.

- Fly in a small airplane if you never have.

- Meet one new person a week - that's fifty-two in a year. You're bound to become friends with at least one or two of them.

Take a short look at your day and note where you could be more adventurous. Over time, you'll notice a change for the better -maybe even a new you.

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