MENTORS MAGAZINE | EDITION 1 | 13
And I read a recent
book,
called Succeed.
It explained that
just visualizing
success is a plan for
failure unless you
also visualize
planning for
setbacks.
In other words, thinking the show will go
without a flaw is not realistic, as Usher
pointed out. There is no such thing as
perfection.That was a mind-spinning insight.
I did more, too.3. I got Nevillized.
With Meghan’s urging, I wrote out a script of
how I wanted the show to go.
I focused on my feelings, not anyone else’s,
so I could focus on what I could control.
The script was a type of Nevillizing (which I
write about in my book, The Attractor
Factor ): feeling as if the
event already happened the way I
envisioned it.I didn’t visualize the show happening, I
visualized that the
show already happened.
Big difference.
I wrote the script from the point of view of
the next day, after I performed on stage.
I read and re-read it every day for a week
before the show.
And —4. I got relaxed.
I got massages, I got plenty of rest, I drank
lots of water, and I went into a flotation tank
at The Zero Gravity Institute for 90 minutes
the day before the show.
I was doing whatever I could to be at peak
But visualizing success and under-
standing there is work to do to get
there, can almost guarantee the re-
sult you want.