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When Visualization Becomes Toxic
When I learnt that I wasn’t a complete victim to my life’s circumstances and that I had the ability to change the course of my life, I was thrilled. Before this realization I had no motivation because I believed that I was destined to never achieve anything I wanted in life.
Such a thought, of course, would be the root of all sorts of failures to come but I thought that there was a possibility that I could succeed, and that was enough to start to purge the negativity. The means through which I would prove to myself and the world that I could be something (whatever that meant) would be through visualization.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a motivational guru who does not talk about the power of seeing your goal in your mind’s eye first before you see your goal manifested before you. Some will even go further to say that even though you see your goal achieved in your mind, it seldom shows up in the way you expect it to. That is definitely something I can attest to.
I used visualization for smaller goals and I’ve achieved probably all of them. It took minimal effort on my part. It seemed like life directed my path based on what I kept feeding it morning after morning when I woke up. It worked! It was time to fry bigger fish, to manifest the big goals.
