Breaking the Biggest Myth: "Visualising my dreams will help me achieve them"

Antano's mother stood at the front door with three identical keys on the same ring. She tried the first. Wrong. The second. Wrong. The third. Wrong. Back to the first. Then the second. Then the third. She was in a hurry, she desperately wanted to get inside, she was trying the right keys, and she could not open the door. When Antano's father said this is the key, she opened it on the first try. Nothing changed except her certainty. Visualization gives you the image of where you want to go. It does not give you the knowing that it is available for you. The mother knew she wanted to get inside. The problem was not motivation. It was the absence of the specific kind of certainty that makes action effective. Installing that certainty is a completely different operation from creating a vivid picture of the outcome.