mgrego2,
Thanks for the info. Yeah, it would be helpful to receive a copy of your mind map, although can you send it by email?
Perhaps pyschologists are suggesting that visualising the process of getting to the goal is more effective than visualising achievement of the goal, because if what we visualise affects what type of activity we carry out: 1) a person who visualises that they have already achieved the goal, may not create the desire to work towards it 2) and at the back of the mind of the person doing the visualising may be the unrealisitic thought that "I have already reached this goal it is no longer necessary to work towards it."
My interest in finding out more about "already there" reports is linked to something I read recently. I can't remember the exact wording or who was the author - but I'm 90% sure it was in the Photoreading Book by Paul Scheele. In the part of the text that I remember it mentions a paradox about learning - that to learn/recognise something new, we must know it already - I'd definitely like to explore that paradox further. If I can locate the text I'll post it to this discussion board for further discussion.
Cheers,
G-Scotland
