Even before I came down with polio when I was 7, I was a slow reader.
Polio and slow reading stuck to me for a decade and a half.
Somewhere along the line, I started to envy kids my age who were accomplishing important things in school, like outstanding grades and super achievements in athletics.
I started to buckle down by creating measurements of success as established by those kids.
I had some success, but at times it fell short of my measuring stick.
To overcome this I believe I began to fantasize (pretend, etc.) that I was performing at my peers’ level.
For example, I pretended I didn’t have polio and became chippy when reminded of it.
I believe its denial over time aided me in successfully competing at an unexpectedly high level in high school. Swimming, water polo, and surfing were the obvious examples, but becoming the head varsity cheerleader shocked many people who had grown up with me. It required me to jump, run, dance to the band’s music (yes, guys danced in those days, at least I did), and perform acrobatics while running.
It was weird because no one seemed to notice I had a limp. The reason for that was, I didn’t have a limp. FINALLY, PRETENDING I DIDN’T HAVE POLIO RESULTED IN NOT HAVING POLIO.
If you can pull that kind of pretending off, you are visualizing at an extremely high level. That’s what imaging yourself in a different state of being can achieve.
I’ve done that same thing several times in my life. It works no matter what age you are. No matter what the condition of your life happens to be.
Try it. But remember, you have to be 100% dedicated to the dream you imagine for yourself. 100%.
Visualizing is the most important tool humans have to alter the trajectory of their lives.