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Treasure Mapping

Visualizing your goal for greater achievement

When you want to achieve something really badly, have you ever tried closing your eyes and imagining yourself "there"? You touch it, feel it and see it clearly. You scan every detail in your mind's eye.

This is a powerful and important technique for motivating yourself and building the self-confidence needed to achieve your goals. Yet when you open your eyes, the vivid image start fades: it takes real concentration to visualize again each time you want some inspiration.

What if you could keep hold of that vivid image and refer to it when ever you need a little motivation or reminder of what you are working towards?

Treasure mapping is a simple tool to help you do just that. Visualization itself is a very powerful technique. And treasure mapping can be the icing on the visualization cake!

It's a very simple but effective idea: Treasure mapping involves...(Sign in to read more.)

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