Can You Get Rich by Visualizing Yourself Rich? |
| Can You Get Rich by Visualizing Yourself Rich? Posted: 12 Apr 2012 12:52 PM PDT The idea that you can get rich by picturing yourself rich has a long and oft-mocked history. Even before “The Secret” — the blockbuster bestseller that said that good thoughts lead to success – there were similar tomes like “The Science of Getting Rich” published in 1910 and “Think and Grow Rich” in 1937. All of the books have the same premise: You can visualize your way to wealth. Hard work? Revolutionary ideas? Luck? Timing? Nice to have, maybe, but apparently not as powerful as picturing your way to riches, these books say. It's not hard to see why critics have often made fun of the theory as part of a “flight from realism.” Yet Sara Blakely, the billionaire founder of Spanx, is apparently big on such visualization. In Jean Chatzky's new book “The Difference,” Blakely says that “I believe you can take mental snapshots of your future and what success looks like to you. If you mentally see yourself in a scenario, you'll start to make decisions in your life that get you there.” She said that years ago, when she was going door-to-door selling fax machines, she visualized herself as the rich owner of Spanx. Of course, she said she had to take action and work hard to achieve the vision. But the visualization led her along the way. Scott Adams, the Dilbert creator, is also a proponent. In the 1980s, he followed advice from a friend to visualize what he wanted and then write it down 15 times in a row, once a day. Within weeks, “amazing coincidences started to happen,” he says. “Within a few months the goal was accomplished.” He applied the same technique to get his MBA and become a syndicated cartoonist. Again, it's easy to make fun of the idea that people can have it all if they just change their thoughts. But apparently, it works for some people – like Scott Adams and Sara Blakely. Do you think visualization can make you rich?
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