25Vision/Visualization
Visualization helps you live your dreams
Our brain is divided into two halves: the right half of our brain learns facts and figures and the left half houses our creativity. We work hard to develop the right half of our brain in school, but sometimes the left half gets ignored.
One of the best ways to use your imagination is to visualize or fantasize. Long ago I came to realize that projecting myself in a successful situation is the most powerful means of attaining personal goals.
That’s what a place-kicker does when he comes on the field to kick a winning field goal. Three seconds left in the game … 80,000 screaming fans … 30 million people watching on TV, and the game is in the balance. As the kicker begins his moves, he makes the final adjustments necessary to achieve the mental picture he’s formed in his mind so many times—a picture of himself kicking the winning field goal.
The ability to project is a common trait among all great athletes. They have future vision. They see things a split second before they happen.
Jack Nicklaus, considered by many the greatest golfer of all time and a PGA Tour Hall-of-Famer, was asked about his tremendous success, especially in making crucial tournament-winning putts. He thought about it for a bit and said, “I never missed a putt in my mind.”
Nicklaus is not considered to be the best at hitting his woods, long or short irons, or even chipping and putting. But everyone considers him the greatest thinking golfer of ...
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