| Perhaps you've read about the power of visualization. | | | | Souvenirs" on page 206 (look it up on Amazon with |
| Maybe you've tried it. Maybe not. If you haven't, you | | | | Arielle Ford as its author). As for the articles, they can |
| might be wondering if this stuff really works or if it's a | | | | be seen here at Ezine Articles.Note: I still have the |
| full of bugaboos.Today, instead of expounding on what | | | | dream of publishing my own book and having that |
| it is and telling you that it works, I am going to offer you | | | | become a best-seller. Stay tuned!3. |
| proof that it does. Then in the next article, I'll talk about | | | | Dream: MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKERVisualization |
| what it is and why it works.1. | | | | technique: Played schoolteacher as a child in my |
| Dream: BECOME A PILOTVisualization technique: As | | | | bedroom. In later years, I would go to church, sit in the |
| a teen, I drove my mother's car down the middle of | | | | main lecture hall (with seating capacity of 2,000) and |
| the highway and pretended to take off and land. Paid | | | | imagine myself on stage speaking to thousands. Then I |
| the price in terms of 4 speeding tickets! Instead of | | | | practiced by getting in front of several civic clubs (i.e. |
| hanging out at the mall with my friends, I used to go to | | | | Kiwanis, Lion's, Rotary, etc.).Result: Spoken to |
| the airport as a youngster and watch planes take off | | | | thousands around the country and continue to build a |
| and land all day long. Played with model airplanes and | | | | reputation as a professional speaker.Need more |
| flew them over makeshift villages with plastic green | | | | proof? Visit my website and see testimonials from |
| roofs and white picket fences. Sat on my couch and | | | | various audiences at: The first time I spoke to 1,000 |
| visualized myself flying in all sorts of weather | | | | people was at a high school in Virginia in the late |
| conditions - imagined feeling the vibration of the engine | | | | nineties. In the near future, my website will be |
| and went through the motion of starting it up, rolling | | | | undergoing a major facelift, which will include videos of |
| down the runway and taking off, etc. Finally, I bought a | | | | speeches I've done. Stay tuned!4. |
| MS Flight simulator and hooked it up to my desktop | | | | Dream: WIN SALES CONTEST AT MERRILL |
| computer and played with it for hours.Result: Became | | | | LYNCH (during the early 1990's)Visualization technique: |
| a pilot May 2001. Two years later, got a commercial | | | | Cut out a picture of the hotel of where winners would |
| certificate. Three years after the commercial, became | | | | be staying. This was posted by the telephone in my |
| the world's first deaf instrument pilot (fly in the clouds | | | | office where I could see it every day. For months, I |
| on instruments).Need more proof? Visit the bio section | | | | imagined myself wriggling my toes in the warm sand, |
| of my website, scroll down the page and you'll see a | | | | swimming in the ocean and watching the sunset from |
| bunch of links to newspaper articles: | | | | the hotel balcony.Result: Won sales contests three |
| Dream: BECOME A PUBLISHED | | | | years in a row. Went on all expense paid trips to |
| AUTHORVisualization technique: In 1996, I cut out a | | | | Bermuda, Mexico and Florida.Need proof? I have a clip |
| section of the New York Times best-selling list and put | | | | of myself being interviewed on national TV (CNN) but |
| it on my refrigerator. Crossed out the top-selling | | | | until I learn how to post videos online, you'll just have to |
| author's name and wrote in mine. Every time I walk in | | | | believe me on this one. I might even have some |
| the kitchen, I am reminded of my desire to be a | | | | photos buried somewhere - I'll have to go look for |
| "best-selling" author. Note: This piece of newspaper is | | | | them!Food for thought: The more you visualize, the |
| now turning yellow and curling at the corners!Result: | | | | more your dreams will come to pass and manifest for |
| Published 3 stories in 3 different best-selling books. | | | | you!Profoundly deaf since birth, Stephen Hopson is a |
| Also written and published several articles online.Need | | | | former award-winning stockbroker turned motivational |
| more proof? Visit your local bookstore and pick up a | | | | speaker, author and pilot. He works with organizations |
| copy of "Chicken Soup for the College Soul". Go to | | | | that are ready to explore and overcome adversity |
| page 278. Order a copy of "heartwarmers" from | | | | because no one is immune from it - adversity does not |
| Azriela Jaffe (it's now out of print but it was an | | | | discriminate. His professional speaking services, |
| Amazon best-seller when it first came out). She has | | | | Obstacle Illusions, include fun and passionate |
| some extras in her inventory - contact her at: The | | | | presentations, especially the story of how his fifth |
| "heartwarmer" story ("Three Words") is on page 38). | | | | grade teacher forever changed his young life with |
| And finally, the third one was published in "Magical | | | | THAT'S RIGHT STEPHEN! |