Play-Acting to Success

Principle #12 - Act As If

One of the greatest strategies for success is to act as if you are already where you want to be. This means thinking like, talking like, dressing like, acting like, and feeling like the person who has already achieved your goal. Acting as if sends powerful commands to your subconscious mind to find creative ways to achieve your goals. It programs the reticular activating system (RAS) in your brain to start noticing anything that will help you succeed, and it sends strong messages to the universe that this end goal is something you really want. ~ Jack Canfield

This is sort of a continuation from the power of visualization, putting your mental visualization into physical action to intensify its effect in programming the RAS.

I also found this in Wikipedia:

"Fake it till you make it" (also called "act as if") is a common catchphrase that means to imitate confidence so that as the confidence produces success, it will generate real confidence. The purpose is to avoid getting stuck in a self-fulfilling prophecy related to one's fear of not being confident, e.g., by thinking, "I can't ask that girl out because she would sense my lack of confidence." The article How You Too Can Be an Optimist in Prevention points out, "In research at Wake Forest University, for example, scientists asked a group of 50 students to act like extroverts for 15 minutes in a group discussion, even if they didn’t feel like it. The more assertive and energetic the students acted, the happier they were".

In other words...

• If you want to be a successful business owner, you need to start thinking, talking and dressing like one.
• If you want to be a successful motivation speaker, you need to start speaking and behaving like one.
• If you want to be a successful investor, you need to start investing and living like one.