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TOPUCU Standard Workbook Lesson 5: Part 1
LESSON 5: PART 1
methods, charts and programs. There’s a cream or cookies or candy. You worked
FINISH BEFORE YOU START lot of stuff out there – some of it is good, you received it. You begged. You bargained.
really hard at pestering your parents until
some of it is bad and some of it is just way
too complex. The goal of TOPUCU is to get You did whatever it took to achieve what
through all the minutia and cut straight to you had visualized. You even put yourself
the point of the principles. And at its core, in harm’s way, continuing to bother your
You must finish before you start. We can circumstance. Champions use this principle visualization is simply getting your mind parents about it although they threatened
already hear you saying, “What’s this one all the time. If you don’t use it, “The Only to see what something will look like in the to punish you. But not even that stopped
all about? What in the world does it mean Person U Cheat Is U.” future while you are still here in the present. you. Why do so many of us forget about
to say “You must finish before you start?” It’s the idea of getting you to see the finish this when we grow up? Visualization is a
Well, we’re into the fifth lesson plan, so we’re We’ve all heard of Walt Disney. Who doesn’t before you even start; to see the completed powerful tool that we are born with. It’s
going to ask you to think this one through for know about the mouse that changed the puzzle before you ever open up the box and time to rediscover it and apply it!
a second. Have you figured it out yet? world? Walt passed away in 1966, two pour out the pieces.
years before the construction began on We are going to end the first part of this
This lesson is all about visualization – seeing Disney World in Orlando, Florida. When the If you’ve grasped an understanding of lesson by asking you to go back to that
it and achieving it. Before you even start the park opened in 1971 one of the speakers the motivation scales and embraced the change that you picked in Lesson One.
race you must visualize yourself crossing mentioned that it’s too bad that Walt didn’t concept that pain is a must then you’re truly Have you written it down? Are you
the finish line. Think of a champion sprinter get to see Disney World. When Walt’s ready for visualization. You need to start reminding yourself of it each day? Are you
running a 100-meter dash. They always see brother Roy spoke later at the grand opening seeing the person you want to be. In the last working on it? Whatever the change is, you
themselves crossing the finish line before he suggested the contrary. He said that Walt lesson, you learned that if you want to lose need to start seeing the finished product.
they even get down in the blocks. In golf, saw Disney World in his mind long before weight you have to think and believe that You need to start visualizing the finish line.
those who excel to the top visualize the flight a shovel was put in the ground. If anyone you will lose weight. You should visualize In Part 2 we’re going to go even deeper and
of the ball before they hit it. An architect understood the value of visualization, it the new you when you’re reaching for the learn the visualization tools and secrets that
sees the finished product in their minds was Walt Disney. refrigerator door. You need to visualize the champions use.
and proceeds to write down what it will new you when you’re considering whether to
look like. Sometimes they’ll make a model Think about a 1000-piece puzzle. When sit on the couch or go to the gym.
to show the prospective buyer an example. you put a puzzle together it takes time. The NOTES:
Then they work backwards as they create bigger the puzzle, the longer it takes. At This concept is applicable to whatever
the blueprint of the outside of the structure. times it gets difficult, even frustrating, but change you’re working on. If it’s academics,
The next picture shows the interior – the because you have that picture on the box visualize yourself as the person who gets all
rooms, the dimensions – then they continue you know that it’s not impossible. You use of their schoolwork done. If it’s a promotion
working backwards until they end up with that image to help you match up colors – like in your job, visualize yourself as the person
the plumbing and electrical. Everything is you see that the right edge is red or the top working hard to get it. See it and achieve it.
visualized before anything is built. edge is blue – and it guides you. Seeing the
But in all of this you have to remember that
you can’t just visualize your way to the top.
"Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured The scales will not tip in your favor without
dreams have become true." — Ralph Marston effort. What good is belief without doing the
work? What good is visualization without
This principle is very important to mastering finished product helps you to put the pieces work? The visualization techniques we will
whatever change you’re working on, so in together. Imagine how much more difficult it discuss are tools you can use to encourage
this part of the lesson we’re going to give would be and how long it would take if you yourself to do the hard work it will take to
you an in-depth understanding of the value didn’t have that picture on the box. see true transformation.
of visualization. Then in Part 2 we’re going
to discuss a technique you can use to apply If you do an Internet search of the word The good news is that you have all done this
the power of visualization to your own “visualization,” you will find all kinds of in the past. Think about when you were a
child and you visualized yourself eating ice
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