and put them on a basketball court,

and they just had them do three throws

and saw how many points they scored.

And what they did at the end

is they went through group A, B and C

and gave them different instructions.

They said the group A:

"For the next 30 days, I want you to

practice for an hour a day. Go on

the court and practice those free throws."

They said the group B:

"I don't want you to go out on the

court but I still want you to practice

every single day,

but without touching the ball.

I just want you to practice in your mind.

See yourself,

visualise yourself

successfully throwing free throws."

And they went to group C and said:

"We don't want you to practice at all.

For the next 30 days, don't even

think about basketball. Don't touch

a basketball."

They followed up 30 days later

and they saw surprising results.

Group A, who practiced each day for

an hour a day on the court,

they improved 24%, right?

Because practice makes progress.

Practice makes progress.

Group C, which is the group that

didn't touch a basketball and

they didn't even think about basketball,

there was no progress.

No practice, no progress.

What was striking though was group B.

Those individuals that

didn't go on the court,

they didn't put on their sneakers

and throw a ball, they just

practice successfully in their mind,

they improved 23%,

just 1% less than the people that

actually went on the court to practice.

I mean, this is evidence that

your mind is powerful.

You'll find that athletes

like Roger Bannister,

they will visualise themselves having success.

So you'll find a great athlete,

they don't just do physical training,

they mentally train themselves to see

the result in advance.

So with this lesson, what

I want you to do is practice the art

of visualisation.

I want you to imagine the perfect day.

What would a limitless day be like for you

from the moment you get up

to when you go to bed.

Because if you can see it here

you can create it out here.

Because what you vividly imagine

you're rehearsing.

One of the challenges is

a lot of people use their visualisation to

get the results they don't want in life

and by visualising it over and over again,

they're actually preparing and rehearsing

for failure.

Visualising all the things that can

go wrong, all the things they're fearing

and then their attention goes there

and they're mentally rehearsing failing

on stage, or failing on that exam,

or failing when they're going to meet

that person on that date. And they're

practicing in their mind.

Here is your lesson:

as you're going through and constructing

your limitless day, you're rehearsing that

and your attention goes there.

Remember that your feelings are

the language of your body and that

your thoughts are the language of your mind.

My goal for you to become limitless is to

imagine your perfect day,

your perfect moment. I want you to

imagine it, visualise it, see it, feel it,

believe in it, and then

work daily for it.

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