Cautionary note, 11/12/2020—stay away any imagination/visualization technique that separates you from reality. Occult/esoteric practices should be avoided. There is a "slippery slope" leading there when you do practices that involve imagining what is not real, doing stuff with dreams, chanting and/or any form of invocation. It is better to be sober, vigilant, and industrious. Using "visualization" insofar as you plan actions to skillfully perform is okay I think, but DO NOT do stuff like imagining yourself in a big luxury yacht etc.
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Imagine yourself from a third person perspective—watch yourself from someone else's viewpoint. What is this person like? Are they acting in a self-destructive way? Are they good to others? Are they idealistic but utterly incompetent? How would you describe yourself in a novel?
The idea here is to look at yourself objectively. Putting aside present feelings for a moment, how would you evaluate your behavior?
Visualization Techniques
Can you see the money?!?!?
In lots of popular psychology and business type books, you will see discussions of various flavors of visualization techniques. That is, imagining various scenarios. The idea is that your sub-conscious will then come up with ideas of how to arrive at these goals.
Unscientific? Nonsense? Bullshit? I think, not so much. It is hard to quantify/measure the efficacy of techniques like visualization. But the fact that so many people have been using
A Recipe for Action
Can you sit down and visualize yourself just philosophizing and getting nothing done for hours on end? Chances are, you probably cannot sustain this meditation for long. When I try this, my attention drifts.
What's the weather going to be like tomorrow? Oh.. must take a note on something I want to write about later. My butt itches.
Visualization techniques get you thinking about what you can do. What are the available actions I can do? What tools do I have at my disposal?
Quarantined Times
It's LARPing time. You are in an RPG called life. Your character is trapped for some time in a small dungeon. How will you train? What skills will you level up? What connections will you make? Options are many, and time (unlike Federal Reserve notes) is limited.