Increasing Employee & Client Engagement

Jack Nicklaus was on the 17th green in 1986 about to win his record 6th Masters at the age of 46 as he was blazing around the back nine.  He had a twelve footer down the hill with a slight break to the right.  The pressure was intense and this birdie could clinch it. He struck the putt and about a foot from the hole he raised his putter as it dropped.  The crowds roared as that did indeed carry him to a back nine 30 and another green jacket and his 18th Major Championship.

1. Vision
2. Visualization
3. Passion 
4. Clear Direction & Focus
5. Symbolic Reasoning
6. Defined Action Steps
7. Review

See it… and you can be it…  Many of the greatest athletes visualize their performance before they perform it.  Like seeing in the future.  By seeing it in the mind’s eye, it breeds confidence because when you step up to actually perform it, you have already done it… or at least your mind thinks it has.  After the round, a reporter asked Jack about the back nine.  He said he didn’t really feel the pressure.  He was having fun.  He was seeing the shots go in before he even hit them as if he had already done it.  Déjà vu… Your mind is incredibly powerful and an incredible tool.

It is more than just seeing it…  It is actually feeling it as well.  There is two types of visualization.  You are performing like you are watching yourself in a movie.  This is a more passive viewing.  Good but not as intense.  The better but more difficult visualization is actually in first person.  Looking out of your own eyes.  You feel the elements.  Wind on your face, the pressure in your hands in arms and the sounds in your ears.  It is as if you are actually performing the action. 

Think about things you want to do and accomplish…  Close your eyes and visualize it.  Think about what it would feel like to do those things.  Imagine yourself and how you would walk and carry yourself.  How would you talk to people or how would they talk to you. 

This can be hard for some people… Here are two things that can help jumpstart this process for you.   The first thing is to cut out pictures of those things that symbolize what you are trying to accomplish.  The second thing, I tell people to start thinking about those people who they admire and want to be like.  Think how they would do it.  Fake it until you make it.   After time you will be able to do it with yourself with those same characteristics of the traits you admire.  Become who and what you want to become. 

Create your own Déjà vu.

Check out the first two articles that got this started.

Goal Setting & The Black Hole
Setting Goals With Eagle Eye Vision
Does Your Strategy Have 2020 Vision