Actually when it comes to goals it's not the visualisation we have to get right. It doesn't show up exactly how we visualise it anyway.
It's the feeling that you expect to experience when you achieve the goal that you need to concentrate on. How will you feel when you reach the goal, generate that feeling, is it good enough can you expect to feel better a feeling higher than that? What would give you that feeling?
You still visualise the end goal (never visualise all the steps to get there - they definately are better off generalised. Only note areas where there is conflict and imagine / visualise a course of action that will overcome the conflict or barrier.)
For goals use all your senses, seeing, what you would see, hearing, what are you saying and what are they saying, and most importantly how you feel.
A good book on a method for developing goal visualisations is Silva Mind Mastery for the 90s - by Dr tag Powell and Dr judith Powell In it they explain a method call the Reel experience. Like making a movie reel of your goal focusing on each of the senses one at a time so in a sense you're replaying the goal 5 or more times in your mind. It doesn't have to be a lenghty process 5 minutes for a goal is often enough and once you've created it you only need to remember it.
That particular book covers Silva along side NLP so if you have little knowledge of NLP it's provides a brief look at it and how you can apply the functions. In the case of creating a "reel experience" it helps you to find the best eye location for triggering each of your senses. For visualisation your eyes tend to look upward, Left or right depending on whether you're recalling a visual image or creating one. By deliberately moving the eye into position you tend to trigger the brains response accordingly. Most of the time we do it without conscious knowledge anyway, just nice to come across a book that explains what we are doing.
Alex
