In this motivational guided visualization, Patrick Mosher walks listeners through a structured, seven‑step process designed to dramatically improve the odds of keeping a New Year’s resolution. He begins by framing the resolution as a fresh start and positions the exercise as both an individual practice and a team‑leadership tool grounded in goal‑setting theory. Each step combines vivid sensory imagination with concrete behavioral tactics: (1) creating a rally point that is described in rich sensory detail to generate excitement; (2) visualizing the very first action and reducing the barrier to that action; (3) establishing a sustainable rhythm rather than an initial sprint; (4) anticipating and stepping over stumbling blocks that typically appear around weeks 7‑8; (5) maintaining a long‑range rhythm through disruptions by enlisting accountability partners, coaches, or mastermind groups; (6) celebrating milestones throughout the journey; and (7) feeling the final achievement, cementing the habit and recognizing the broader impact of personal change. The tone is instructional, encouraging, and highly enthusiastic, with repeated prompts for listeners to close their eyes and immerse themselves in the imagined experience. The content emphasizes habit formation, accountability, and the psychological benefits of vivid visualization.
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It's a new year. We put the old year behind and excitedly look forward to a fresh start. Did you create a New Year's resolution? Did you resolve to do something different, give something up, commit to a big goal or a result? Good for you. You've completed the first step of a successful resolution, the easiest step in the process. Want to improve your chances of achieving this year's resolution? Well, let's visualize right now each of the 7 steps in a successful resolution. By the way, if you're leading a team, these 7 steps are based in solid goal theory. And note, if you want to sit back and listen or watch this post, you can do this visualization activity right now. Okay, so step 1: create a rally point. A rally point generates excitement, energy, and enthusiasm. It keeps people motivated. It's a clear vision of what achieving that rally point really looks like, feels like, smells like, tastes like, sounds like. Describe your rally point with sensorial detail. It's so real, you're in it right now. Mmm, yummy. Step 2: Visualize day 1. If your vision is clear, the first step is pretty easy. You buy that exercise machine, you ride that bike, you take your walk. Good for you. But right now, visualize that first step. Great. Now, what will you do to reduce the barrier to take that first step each time? My sister is an artist, and she told me if I wanted to start, begin painting, I should lay out the paints and canvas so I can walk right up and start painting. How can you reduce the barrier of that first step, making it easier to engage your resolution every time? All right, step 3: establish rhythm. Here's the biggest problem people usually face after their first step. They sprint at the start of a marathon. They generate so much enthusiasm with that rally point, they bolt out of the starting blocks like an Olympic sprinter. In a 26-mile race, they're gassed in the first 100 meters. Visualize an even rhythm. How will you build your resolution into your daily or weekly schedule? Open your calendar, point to each day of your resolution, and repeat your resolution aloud. For each day. I will do blank. Visualize your new rhythm and feel it happening. Step 4: Step over the stumbling blocks. This is when people lose track of their New Year's resolution. Happens around week 7 or 8. They fail that resolution somehow and they lose heart. Maybe the rally point fades and the resolution fizzles. Visualize that point now. How would it feel to fall down? You know how you get disheartened, and you know how you get up. This is the resolve of your resolution, that moment of truth. You've done it before, and you will do it here. Visualize your process of saying, "Yes, I will," after you've fallen. Step 5, establish a long-range rhythm. Now you're in those middling months. You've got a rhythm. You've stumbled and gotten up. You're in it for the long haul. Visualize it. The rally point has lost its luster for now. Little things can knock you out of your rhythm. Little disruptions like catching a cold or taking a trip, or eating a glorious meal for your birthday. Maybe bigger disruptions pop up, like changing jobs or caring for an ailing parent. How will you maintain the rhythm of your New Year's resolution even through these times? Will you give it up for a time and then pick it up later? Visualize how that, how that long-range rhythm feels. Rhythmic breathing, Cadence. A sense of serenity fills your senses in the long-range rhythm. Can you feel it? Want to maintain that long-range rhythm when the going gets tough? Enlist an accountability partner. Engage a coach. Join a mastermind group. Choose a community that shares your excitement and helps contain and sustain your resolve when things get tough along the way. Your resolve strengthens by helping them. The probability of achieving your New Year's resolution just increased exponentially. Step 6: Celebrate along the way. High performers so often don't stop, look around, and say, "Wow, look what I've done." Visualize your celebrations along the way. What do those celebrations look like every month? At the midpoint? Three-quarters of the way through? Visualize each one. What will your little success dance look like? Wait, did I just see a little curl on your lips? Oh yeah. Step 7: Feel the achievement. There it is. The end of the year is in sight. You're so overjoyed of seeing that rally point, you pick up the pace. Runners call this kick. You feel your blazing speed as you break the tape to the finish line. What will it feel like to cross that finish line? Your rally point is no longer in the distance. It's solidly under your feet. Close your eyes and visualize that feeling. What will that success celebration look like? So next year, the world will celebrate your success. Fireworks will go off all over the world to celebrate. People will party in the streets. You made it! Go out and celebrate their successes too. And here's the cool thing about achieving your New Year's resolution: you established a habit. And you know what's even better? Oh, here it comes. You just changed the world for good.
