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“lying” to themselves they were creating a vision of who
they wanted to be.
It’s noteworthy, too, that public schools are so out of
touch with the motivational sources of individual
achievement and personal success that in order to in-
vite children to express big visions for themselves they
have to invite the children to “lie.” (As it was said in
the movie ET,“How do you explain school to a higher
intelligence?”)
Most of us are unable to see the truth of who we
could be. My daughter’s school developed an unintended
solution to that difficulty: If it’s hard for you to imagine
the potential in yourself, then you might want to begin
by expressing it as a fantasy, as did the children who
wrote the poems. Think up some stories about who you
would like to be. Your subconscious mind doesn’t know
you’re fantasizing (it either receives pictures or doesn’t).
Soon you will begin to create the necessary blueprint
for stretching your accomplishments. Without a picture
of your highest self, you can’t live into that self. Fake it
till you make it. The lie will become the truth.
4. Keep your eyes on the prize
Most of us never really focus. We constantly feel a
kind of irritating psychic chaos because we keep trying
to think of too many things at once. There’s always too
much up there on the screen.
There was an interesting motivational talk on this
subject given by former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy
Johnson to his football players before the 1993 Super
Bowl:
“I told them that if I laid a two-by-four across the
room, everybody there would walk across it and not fall,
because our focus would be that we were going to walk