Visualization
The Importance of Visualization
Are you a visual person? According to Cynthia Tobias, author of They Way They Learn 60% of adults are considered “visual” learners. The remaining percentage are audio (30%) and kinesthetic (10%) learners. If you’re in the majority you learn and focus best on visual cues. Do you get sidetracked easily? How many times have you sat down to work towards your goals and gotten off track by a new blog post, friendfeed, tweet or StumbleUpon page? Visual learners are generally high-energy individuals but are distracted easily and are not good at multi-tasking (not quite adult A.D.D. but pretty close). I know there have been plenty of nights I’ve intended to research a new PPC campaign or write a few articles for an affiliate website and ended up chatting on AIM, stumbling and forum browsing.
How Can Visualization Help You? (Give your brain what it wants)
Recently I’ve accepted my visual learning style and rather than fight it, I’ve worked with it. If you are a visual person give your brain visual cues. How? Write down your internet marketing goal. Is it $1 per day? Is it $10? $100? Now, make a bar or graph chart and print it out (or go all the way and have it done at a kinkos) and stick it on your desk.
Make sure it’s in plain view while you’re in front of your monitor. Whenever I get distracted online I see my chart out of the corner of my eye and I ask myself “What am I doing to get towards my goal?” It works because it’s a visual cue. The bigger and more colorful I make it, the more distracting it is. Go nuts with it. Blow it up to 3 times as big as it should be. Make it more colorful than a Grateful Dead t-shirt. Stick clown shoes on the bottom of it, whatever.
The Right Motivation
If you try out the chart and it doesn’t work for you there may be a good reason. More money in and of itself may not be your true motivation. Why do you want this extra income? Is it a bigger house? Is it better vacations? College tuition for your children? Put your real motivation right next to the chart on your desk. I still recommend putting a numerical value on your internet marketing goal via a chart as this helps avoid “Pie in the Sky” goal setting. The interesting side effect of placing a concrete number on your goal is that your brain immediately asks “How do I get there?” You’ll be amazed at what answers you can get from yourself. I know you’ve read a ton of blog and forum posts on ways to generate income online. You know how to start making a bit of income! So stop distractions by making your goal the biggest distraction of all.
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