- “Writing a book is a long, hard process. So what should I be thinking about instead? What should my self-affirmations be? I should be imagining getting up and working on the book every morning. I should imagine working on it even when I don’t feel like it, and when I’m stuck, and when I think the book is terrible. I should tell myself that I have what it takes to keep at it through obstacles and difficulty. Evidence shows that visualizing the steps you’d have to do to achieve the goal helps. Students who imagined doing well on an exam got worse grades than those who imagined studying for the exam. Imagining the steps and the processes you need to undertake to achieve a goal activates some different brain areas than those activated when you imagine the goal being achieved.
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