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TOPUCU Adult Faith-Based Workbook Lesson 5: Part 1

would not come for many years and in The bigger the puzzle, the longer it takes. when you’re considering whether to sit on child and you visualized yourself eating ice
the meantime Joseph would endure many At times it gets difficult, even frustrating, but the couch or go to the gym. cream or cookies or candy. You worked
hardships, including being sold into slavery, because you have that picture on the box really hard at pestering your parents until
imprisoned and unfairly accused of sexually you know it’s not impossible. You use that This concept is applicable to whatever you received it. You begged. You bargained.
assaulting one of his master’s wives. image to help you match up colors – like you change you’re working on. If it’s academics, You did whatever it took to achieve what
However, Joseph never let go of the vision see the right edge is red or the top edge is visualize yourself as the person who gets all you had visualized. You even put yourself
that God had given him and continued blue – and it guides you. Seeing the finished of their schoolwork done. If it’s a promotion in harm's way, continuing to bother your
to maintain his discipline and righteous product helps you to put the pieces together. in your job, visualize yourself as the person parents about it although they threatened
nature even in the face of what seemed like Imagine how much more difficult it would be working hard to get it. If it’s getting closer to punish you. But not even that stopped
impossible challenges. Most of us probably and how long it would take if you didn’t have to God, visualize yourself as the person you. Why do so many of us forget about
believe that even without the dreams of that picture on the box. who reads more, prays more and gets more this when we grow up? Visualization is a
his brothers eventually bowing down to involved with their church community. See it powerful tool we are born with. It’s time to
him, Joseph would have still been a success. If you do an Internet search of the word and achieve it. rediscover it and apply it!
However, it isn’t difficult to imagine that “visualization,” you will find all kinds of But in all of this you have to remember you
Joseph pulled some comfort or a little extra methods, charts and programs. There’s a can’t just visualize your way to the top. The We are going to end the first part of this
strength from those visions during the most lot of stuff out there – some of it is good, scales will not tip in your favor without effort. lesson by asking you to go back to that
painful and disappointing moments of his some of it is bad and some of it is just way What good is belief without doing the work? change you picked in lesson one. Have
journey. Now, it’s certainly true that we may too complex. The goal of TOPUCU is to get What good is visualization without action? you written it down? Are you reminding
not always have dreams that are so explicitly through all the minutia and cut straight to The visualization techniques we will discuss yourself of it each day? Are you working
symbolic of what we can be or achieve in the point of the principles. And at its core, are tools you can use to encourage yourself on it? Whatever the change is, you need
the same manner of Joseph, however the visualization is simply getting your mind to do the hard work it will take to see true to start seeing the finished product. You
principle can still be applied. to see what something will look like in the transformation. need to start visualizing the finish line. In
future while you are still here in the present. part 2 we’re going to go even deeper and
Let’s look at a few other examples of It’s the idea of getting you to see the finish The good news is that you have all done this learn the visualization tools and secrets
instances in which visualization played a key before you even start; to see the completed in the past. Think about when you were a that champions use.
role. We’ve all heard of Walt Disney. puzzle before you ever open up the box and

"And the Lord answered me: 'Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, NOTES:
so he may run who reads it.'" — Hab 2:2 (NIV)

Who doesn’t know about the mouse that pour out the pieces; to be like Joseph and
changed the world? Walt passed away in see yourself as someone great and respected
1966, two years before the construction before you’ve ever taken the first step out of
began on Disney World in Orlando, Florida. the cell that holds you.
When the park opened in 1971 one of the
speakers mentioned that it’s too bad Walt If you’ve grasped an understanding of the
didn’t get to see Disney World. When Walt’s motivation scales and embraced the concept
brother Roy spoke later at the grand opening that pain is a must then you’re truly ready
he suggested the contrary. He said that Walt for visualization. You need to start seeing
saw Disney World in his mind long before the person you want to be. In the last lesson,
a shovel was put in the ground. If anyone you learned that if you want to lose weight
understood the value of visualization, it was you have to think and believe you will lose
Walt Disney. weight. You should visualize the new you
when you’re reaching for the refrigerator
Think about a 1000-piece puzzle. When door. You need to visualize the new you
you put a puzzle together it takes time.

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