How to Coach Yourself and Others Better Coaching Through Visualisation | Page 92

Practice some exercises: To develop your creativity, we recommend
the following techniques:
Relax. Close your eyes and imagine a familiar object: your
dictionary for example. Turn the dictionary around. Examine it from
above and from below. Change it’s colour. Move it away as though
it were 10 meters away from you. Bring it back closer. Give it
immense dimensions then reduce it down to infinite proportions.
Change its shape, turn it into a violin. Make it disappear and
reappear.
This repetitive mental exercise should prepare you for the following
exercises.
2 Short term preparation
Short term preparation means that you are going to have a creative
session within a very short period. Consequently, you have to make
some precise preparations. We give you three advices:
1. Choose a motivating environment:
The first thing is to choose an environment connected to your vision.
For this purpose you have just to imagine it:
You have an office that is perhaps old and shabby. Imagine in the
smallest detail the office in which you would like to work (lounge,
leather chair, vast and functional desk etc.)
Each time you enter your real office, see your mental office. You
will think more effectively.
Then Imagine your advisors: There are certainly people you admire:
film stars, politicians etc. Choose two or three and put them in your
mental office: They are now your advisors! Then imagine that you
are talking to them. Imagine, their arguments.

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