Comments on: Creating Goal Movies: A 12 Step Guide

By: Butterfly

Butterfly — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:32:09 +0000

I’ve done a few that I felt like sharing. :) I have a few more that are more personal, but here are some public ones.

By: J.D.

J.D. — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:03:41 +0000

Very good write up.

I like the approach for a few reasons:
- if you see it you can achieve it
- doing a dry run of your life can be a good wake up call
- you’re the director of your life
- it lets you model the “what if”’s
- you can “choose your own adventure”
- we naturally think in pictures
- it creates an emotional connection, beyond just an intellectual connection, to the end in mind
- it’s an incremental experience over vision boards

I do something similar for modeling software — I call them “experience step throughs” — literally stepping throught the experience, as if it existed. I find there is a big difference between text, whiteboarding, storyboarding, slideware, movies, prototypes … etc. Making something visual gives you an emotional reaction, shines the spot light on some things you might have missed, and helps you focus on the big rocks before getting lost in minutia.

By: Clay Collins

Clay Collins — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:37:33 +0000

@Jonathan: Gotcha’! Thanks for the two thumbs.

By: Clay Collins

Clay Collins — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:32:35 +0000

@Dave: You’re welcome. I’m curious about your audio goals. Because I’m such an oral person, “the voice in my head” can sometimes be discouraging, so the visual aspect of goal movies helps me slip in motivation through the back door :-). But maybe audio might work!

–Clay

By: Clay Collins

Clay Collins — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:30:08 +0000

@JEMi: I want to see how a goal movie’s done — JEMi style.

By: Clay Collins

Clay Collins — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:29:08 +0000

@I’m glad. Making a goal movie can take a lot of work (especially writing the affirmations and finding photos), but it’s worth it. I should make a goal movie for motiving people to make goal movies :-)

By: Clay Collins

Clay Collins — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:24:16 +0000

@Hunter: Yeah, something about the visuals plus the audio really drives things home. Whenever I find myself getting discouraged about a goal, I watch my goal movie. My attitude doesn’t change instantly but I find myself arriving at spontaneous insights constantly throughout the reminder of the day and also finding hidden sources of motivation. It’s really uncanny.

By: Clay Collins

Clay Collins — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:19:49 +0000

@Pat: Thanks! If you end up doing this please consider uploading to YouTube and posting the link here (if you want to share).

–Clay

By: Clay Collins

Clay Collins — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:18:53 +0000

@Marlisa: I like those three points, as well as the quotation. For me, the biggest purpose of a goal movie is to keep my mind focused. I get sidetracked too easily.

By: Marelisa

Marelisa — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:41:48 +0000

I think the real power of a mind movie is twofold: keeping your focus on what you want, and motivating you to take action to make your image come-to-be. OK, threefold: it also helps you to believe that you’re capable of achieving the things in your mind movie since you expose your mind to it over and over again. There’s a saying that goes something like this: whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Too often we waste our time on trivial things: this is a result of not having a clear point to focus on.

Really nice post Clay and it’s great that you’re willing to go the extra mile and help people create their mindmovies.