Visualization Works [Achieve Your Goals] | Jack Canfield

Hi there, I'm Jack Canfield, and today I want to talk to you about the power of visualization. One of the projects I'm currently working on is finishing a new book called Living the Success Principles. It's a book of stories by ordinary people who've achieved extraordinary results by applying the principles in my book, the Success Principles. One of my favorite stories is by Romeo Marquez, who has been using the power of visualization to achieve his goals in his career as an actor. And I'd like to read you some excerpts from his story and hopefully inspire you to also apply this powerful but underused technique for success. Romeo writes, I graduated from UCLA with a BA in acting. I knew I wanted to be an actor, but I also knew that an actor's lifestyle is up and down. Constant auditions and a roller coaster of unknowing. Was there a way to be an actor and take more control of my life? One day in a bookstore, I saw the Success Principles by Jack Canfield on a shelf. The book seemed to say to me, hey Romeo, come on over here. The book was thick, kind of intimidating, but the subtitle attracted me. How to get from where you are to where you want to be. Once I was home, I immersed myself in it. I highlighted pages, wrote all over it. I've read that book so many times that the COVID is falling off. Reading Jack's words felt like a dad talking to me. He taught me to open my mind to all possibilities and to welcome risks. Some of the ideas in Jack's book I'd read before, like taking 100% responsibility for our lives. But it always set those books and the exercises in them aside, thinking, I'll do it later, I'll do it later. But Jack broke things down in a simple way that made me want to do everything right now because I was focusing on the whole acting scene. Auditioning and teaching acting. The story in the book about Jim Carrey's experience with visualization and goal setting fascinated me. In 1990, before Jim was famous, he used to drive his old car up Mulholland Drive and say to himself, directors want to work with me. I'm going to be a successful actor. He even wrote himself a 10 million dollar check for acting services rendered and dated it for Thanksgiving 1995. He carried that check around in his wallet for years. The crazy thing is, it worked. By 1995, he was making $20 million per picture. He got what he wanted. Now one of the exercises in the Success Principles involves writing a list of 101 goals for one of mine. I said I wanted to meet and work with Jim Carrey. Day after day, I held that idea in my mind, really picturing myself working with Jim Carrey. A week or two after that, I got a call to be an extra on Jim Carrey's movie, the number 23. I thought, okay, how cool is that? Now, working as an extra, you're in the background, and you don't communicate with the actors or the directors. New actors do this as part of the process for getting into the Screen Actors Guild. Now, in one scene, I was a college student sitting in a classroom, and after five or ten minutes, one of the assistant directors told everyone to get off the set so they could make some changes. A lot of the actors went to the food services room where they had snacks and drinks. We were all talking, asking each other questions like, where are you from? How long have you been acting? Who's your agent? When Jim Carrey walked through the door, everyone was poking everyone else, whispering, it's him. It's Jim Carrey. I was trying to keep my cool, but I was thinking, oh, my gosh, it's Jim Carrey. Whoa, this stuff works. Now. Jim walked over to the buffet table and was getting some tea, but nobody approached him. We weren't supposed to. A few minutes later, the assistant director called us all back to the set. Everyone left except for Jim and me. This was my chance. I went right up to him and said, hi, I'm Romeo. He said, I'm Jim. And I said, I know. Then I told him, I just read a story about him and visualization, and could he please tell me a bit more about it? He said, you know what, Romeo? It works. I tell people that if it can work for me, it can work for anybody. I told him I read about the $10 million check and that I did the same thing for myself. He said, really? He felt good that his story had inspired me. After that, whenever we had a break on set, Jim and I would talk about the super bowl or something, just joking around. It was fun to be on a first name basis with one of my heroes. And. But more than that, it was exciting to know firsthand that visualization really does work. I had friends who toured as actors, and so I made that my next goal. Soon I had the chance to do just that, Working in an educational theater program for kids all over California that focused on violence prevention and intelligent decision making. After doing that for a while, I thought, you know, I like what I'm doing, but I know my talent and words can have an even bigger impact on I Want to do this Nationally, it was time for a new goal. I set my sights on working as a trainer with an organization called Challenge Day, which is recognized internationally as being one of the top programs for celebrating kids and inspiring them to find their place in the world. I went full throttle. Goal setting, visualization, affirmations, applying all the stuff I learned from Jack to getting this new position. I auditioned and was selected to be one of five new leaders that to present programs in high schools all over North America. Success. For the last two years I've been flying from city to city to small towns and suburbs across the US And Canada, elevating, entertaining and empowering young people. It's an experience I never get tired of. I also wrote an inspirational one man show and performed it in New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Colorado. This work on a national level has taken me to the global level of A few months ago I gave my first TEDx talk in Chennai, India. And from that TEDx opportunity I've received an invitation to return to India, this time to do a college tour as well as do trainings in the Ukraine and the Philippines. And this is just the beginning. All this came from a few simple seeds that Jack Canfield planted. Now, in between all my travels, I'm back at my community college teaching the same acting class that I first took. And I'm also trying to instill in my students the success principles that I've learned. I remind them that it's okay to fail, they just have to get right back up and keep going. What's important is that you go big. Everything you want in life is just outside your comfort zone. Then I say, hey, do you want to hear a story about Jim Carrey? End of story. Now here's your homework for you to complete after watching this video. Pick your most important goal and then close your eyes and create a visual movie in your mind of that goal being realized. Just like Jim Carrey did. And see yourself living that dream. See it from the inside of you, looking out through your eyes at what you would be seeing, such as someone handing you a large bonus check, or holding your newly published book in your hand, or walking up to your dream car, reaching out and opening the door and getting inside, starting the car and feeling the thrill of the car accelerating from zero to 60 miles per hour. And remember to add in the sounds you would be hearing and then feel the feelings you would be feeling if you'd already achieved it. So make sure to close your eyes and visualize the same movie twice a day, every day for a minimum of 60 days, and then take a moment to tell me in the comments below what goal you have chosen to visualize. Again, thank you for watching and remember, nothing changes for the better until you do. Now, if you found this video helpful, make sure you like it, share it with a friend who may need it, and subscribe to my channel for more videos like this one and for some additional resources on visualization and visit my website@jackcampfield.com thanks again for watching.