Carrying on from Visualisation and Goal setting? I thought I'd put this idea of visualisation into practice. I've been reading and listening to quite a few motivational writers and speakers over the past four or five months and most of them have this idea of visualisation as a key concept.
Let me give you a snippet of what I was visualising in words, I wrote these on 22nd of November last year.
1. My house will sell for a little more than $xxx,xxx,xx (I specified the amount).
What actually happened
We put the house on the market in December not to sell, but just to see what it might be worth the real estate expected about 20,000 less that what I was visualising. But we put it on just to see what might happen, the thing with visualisation is you must 'Action It'. The neighbour in front of our battle axe block stood in the driveway, telling each prospective person "her rules for anybody who was thinking of living there". I let it go if this things going to work it must be with all the normal odds for or against. We received four offers that day.
One from an investor trying to get a bargain 70,000 less than its market value. 90,000 less than we wanted. One from a first home buyer, 20,000 less than we wanted.
Two couples, excited buyers who were looking for a home, they kept out bidding each other until they reach the exact amount, so we said yes of course. Remember above I asked a little more than, well your not going to believe it, but our yes wasn't enough for these feisty bidders. The next morning we get a call from the real estate to say, they wouldn't stop out bidding each other, you got an extra $3,500 in the 24hrs after we said yes to the real estate.
My visualising became a complete reality including the little extra. I thank God for revealing this little gem for living an amazing life. Visualisation really does work, at least for me.
2. New House Build at xxxxxx will accept 5% deposit in Cash.
What actually happened.
In the week we were selling the house we ran across several builders building in the exact area I had been visualising to live, not quite in the town, but on one of the main arterial roads leading out, mainly so we wouldn't get stuck in traffic especially on the weekends.
Two weeks after the house sale, We checked out three builders. The one we wanted was within our price range but they required a 10% bank bond. It looked good so we went for it, but the bank wouldn't do the bond, banks are funny that way they like to do things their way, sometime of course the obstacles come our way to steer us back on coarse. So we went back to the builder and said would you take 5%. You guessed it they said yes. When I wrote the above I wasn't thinking 5% Cash, that was actually a typo at the time that I didn't pick up on. I meant 10% Bank bond. Go figure even the typo come out right.
What makes all this more interesting is that on the bank side they had actually offered to do 95% which I also missed. So not only have I paid the deposit I've got money in the bank yahoo. I don't know if I'm allowed to mention the bank but they've done well by us. Anz Bank.
Now that I was building I needed somewhere to live whilst it was being built. Which lead me to this visualisation for a place to rent.
3. The perfect HOUSE in xxxxxxx whilst our house is built - 450-500 (Xxxxxis ideal at present).
What actually happened.
The location I picked for a temporary rental wasn't anywhere near where I'm building, but it is close to my work place. I had quite a lot of Km's on my lease vehicle and wanted to minimise as much as I could adding to them for the year of the build. So I specified a location close to work.
A rental came up at the location so we went to check it out. This is just hilarious, someone else came at the same time and the current tenant wasn't ready. So the real estate for the rental took us to see the amenities of the complex, he shows us the pool area, we were in there for a couple of minutes with the other prospective tenant and they lock my wife and I in the pool area. I turned to my wife and said laughing "do you think that this is a tactic to eliminate the competition?".
We were locked in there for about ten minutes until the real estate came and got us out by knocking on other residence of the complex to get a key. Let's say we didn't get that one and leave it there. The other person really wanted it.
I must admit I enjoyed the tent it was like being on a four week holiday, especially when it rained, the sound on the roof was absolutely beautiful. We watched movies every night it was great. I also became an early riser as the tent got pretty hot after about 7:30am.
We found a place almost exactly opposite where the first rental was located, but just so much better. It was a little grubby and needed a little TLC but it is perfect and exactly within the price range I specified. The rooms are absolutely huge, I've gone from a tent to a mansion in comparison. Thus far we are on track with what we have visualised, can't wait to see the next positive steps forward.
More on Vision boards
Left is an Example of a vision board. (This isn't mine, mines a little way out to put here, just yet at least).
Most say at the least write down what you are visualising in word format, but most suggest the writing and then putting a picture to it to make it, well visual.
The premise being that we are visual by nature. The idea is the find pictures of things that most resemble your goal, scrapbook them or put them into your favourite editor I used noteshelf for ipad.
To get some really great ideas for your own vision board google vision boards and you can see what others have done, like the image above. Use images that inspire and remind you of what you have already started to visualise and vocalise into words on a page. I found a picture of an Australian million dollar note, and I used that to inspire me towards my financial goals. I found photographs of houses overlooking the beach in the area I wanted to live.
Next time giving your visualisation some feeling.
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