161“Great,” said Margie. “Now picture yourself diving
off the board in slow motion, just like in a dream. Can
you see that?”
“Yes I can,” said Michelle.
“That’s great!” shouted Margie. “Now you can do it.
Because if you can dream it, you can do it! Let’s go over
here and do it.”
Michelle followed her slowly to the end of the pool.
I was looking over the top of my book but not letting
them know I was listening. I was amazed. I had no idea
what would happen next, but I noticed a number of
people around the pool area watching and listening with
fascination, while pretending not to.
Michelle walked up to the edge of the water and
looked very scared. She looked at Margie, and Margie
said, “Michelle, I want you to keep saying, very softly,
‘If I can dream it, I can do it’ and then I want to see you
dive in.”
Michelle kept repeating “If I can dream it, I can do
it,” and all of a sudden, surprising even herself, she
dove—a near-perfect dive into the deep end with al-
most no splash!
Margie was jumping up and down and clapping when
Michelle came up from the water. “You did it!” she
shouted, and Michelle was grinning as she climbed up
to do it again.
Could it be, I thought to myself, that this system is
this simple?
The principle is this: You won’t do anything you can’t
picture yourself doing. Visioneering is just another word
for picturing yourself. Once you make the picturing pro-
cess conscious and deliberate, you begin to create the
self you want to be. We dive into the pictures we create.
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