100 Ways To Motivate Yourself, Third Edition

75. Learn visioneering

A few years ago I spent some enjoyable time working with motivational speaker Dennis Deaton and teaching his principles of visioneering—which he defines as “engineering dreams into reality” by the use of active mental imaging. When I gave my weekly Thursday night public seminars, I’d sometimes teach Deaton’s visioneering concepts, and my (then) little daughter Margery would always accompany me. She helped hand out workbooks and pencils and when the seminar got started she would take a seat in the audience, open her own workbook and participate. She was 10 at the time, and I was never certain exactly how much she was absorbing.

Then one weekend afternoon by the pool at our apartment complex, I relaxed in a deck chair while ...