Are You Listening to Your Inner Visionary?

By Audrey Seymour

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An important strategy for reaching your business goals is to enjoy a healthy relationship with your inner visionary.

The inner visionary is rooted deep in your subconscious, so that is where you'll want to contact it on a daily basis for the biggest impact. A fascinating thing about the subconscious is that it only understands the "Right Now" of present time and lives immersed in the senses. Talking about the future goes right over its head, so to speak.

Therefore, a great way to relate to your inner visionary is to write a multi-sensory script of the way you'd like your future to be, and then play it like a movie that you step into in real time. This will "program" you to recognize at a subconscious level what fits the path toward your goals and what would pull you off course -- without even needing to think about it.

For example, a client I'll call Maia felt depressed because her office space was cramped and needed repainting. She felt embarrassed to invite her clients for meetings at her office because it didn't express the prosperous professional image she wanted to project. At the same time, she felt overwhelmed at finding a place that loved and could also afford.

I invited Maia to send her inner critic on a vacation, and then to take a brief trip into the future to visit her new office. She chose three months ahead as the right timeframe, and then envisioned a shiny copper-colored capsule as her personal time machine. The image of climbing into a machine from a low-budget science fiction movie put a grin on her face, and her spirits began to lift.

"What are you seeing?" I asked after she arrived.

"I'm walking into this spacious office," she said. "It has a few skylights so there is plenty of natural light. I'm sharing a suite with other consultants so the rent is reasonable. I only had to get one more client project to cover the higher rent."

"Are there any other features you enjoy about your new office?"

"I love the fact that it is downtown so I can walk out for coffee or lunch with a client. It's perfect!"

With that picture in mind, Maia was inspired to start looking again for a place that matched her vision. She took on the homework of writing her office vision and posting the page on her vision board so that she'd see it every day. Within two months she found a place that was a bit of a stretch financially, but the beautiful setting gave her enough confidence to start making cold calls to prospective clients again. Soon after, two new business opportunities arose.

There are several key points that caused Maia's turnaround:

1. Sending the inner critic away gave her the space for something new to happen in our session.
   
   
2. Inviting the spirit of play brought a lightness and open mind into her exploration.
   
   
3. Using her full sensory imagination engaged her subconscious directly.
   
   
4. Planning what she'd need to do to afford a nicer place kept her vision grounded in practicality.
   
   
5. Reminding herself of her vision and taking action on a daily basis kept her on course.

Are you taking full advantage of your inner visionary? What changes might you enjoy if you did?!

To take the next step, see How to Create a Dynamic Vision Board.

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