1. Being too specific.

When you sit down to visualize your future, do you already have a specific something in mind that you want to create? Can you list detail after detail of how you want it to show up in your life?

Well, these details can be exhilarating…or they can totally derail your dream. It depends.

You need to know just HOW specific you should be to create efficiently and effectively. Just enough, and no more.

2. Concentrating on what you want to have, instead of how you want to feel when you have it.

There’s a big difference between concentrating on your thoughts…and focusing on your feelings. And it’s often easier to know what you want than why you want it.

Your ability to create a result that you truly enjoy often depends on where you focus your attention.

3. Spending as much time visualizing what you DON’T want as what you DO want.

This is really a follow-up to No. 2, because most of us get caught right here.

Have you noticed those times that you sit down to spend a few moments visualizing what you want, and all of a sudden you notice your thoughts, and you realize that you are lost in what you don’t want? That you are revisiting past horrors?

Well, time spent on this type of visualization is time spent derailing your dream.

4. Misinterpreting evidence of your creation.

When you ask for something new in your life, you will notice all kinds of evidence showing up all around you.

When you are you are using the Attraction Principles consciously, then you know how to interpret the evidence.

And accurate interpretation is critical. Otherwise you can find yourself discouraged and frustrated in your creation process. And you can easily give up on your creation then and there.

5. Justifying why you don’t have your creation yet.

You know how it is when you have been wanting something, but just don’t have it yet?

You spend a lot of time telling yourself and your friends why it just hasn’t happened yet. You give your excuses, and justify your current situation. Maybe you think you aren’t smart enough, connected enough, old enough, young enough.

Everyone has their favorite reasons, but focusing on them doesn’t help you get what you want.

6. Not realizing that every thought is an invitation to more of the same.

Have you ever had a day where you woke up cranky, spilled your coffee all over yourself, and then locked your keys in your car? One of those ‘the worse it gets, the worse it gets’ days? Well, join the club – we’ve all had them.

And I’ll bet you’ve also had the opposite – ‘the better it gets, the better it gets.’ Aren’t those days GREAT?!

Spending lots of time in the ‘worse it gets’ scenario is like taking one step forward…and two steps back. Once you get in there, it’s easy to get stuck.

7. Visualizing positive outcomes, but then thinking ‘I can’t have it’ thoughts the rest of the day.

Have you noticed how much of the time your thoughts seem to be thinking you, instead of the other way around? How they just seem to appear, as if by magic, out of nowhere?

Your thoughts need supervision and direction…and in some cases, full-on training! And they need that 100% of the time in the beginning, when you are trying to make changes.

It’s not the big events and programmed actions we take that have the biggest impact on our creations.

It’s the small, constant everyday thoughts, feelings and actions that have the biggest impact. Your habits. And chances are, you don’t even know you are doing them!

Do you recognize any of these common visualization mistakes in your life?

If so, that’s good news. Because as you eliminate these pesky mistakes, your ability to create what you want in your life will improve exponentially!

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