Allsorts

“Visualise your goal”

John Kehoe

When I found myself waiting at Christchurch airport between air flights earlier this year, I reached for some boredom relief in my handbag. This came by way of some coaching cards I had made into flash cards using braille. The cards were what I carried around with me for exactly moments like these – when I had nothing to do but just stay still in one place and wait.

This March day my fingers found the phrase “visualise your goal” so I decided to move my attention to my upcoming publication of my first book – How to Make a Silver Lining.  I wasn’t even sure if it was going to happen – with no publisher or funds to publish the book my outlook was more positive than my bank balance.

So – while awaiting my plane my thoughts moved in the direction of the symbol of every book publication – the launch itself. Where would a good place to hold a book launch be? I scoured my mind for possibilities and then – like a lightning bolt – it came to me – the hospital waiting room. The place, where 12 years prior, I had waited to be later declared legally blind. What a great setting – for it was where the book began. I had done it. I could see it in my minds eye  myself standing in the waiting room of Dunedin Public Hospital.

I returned home from my travels and established a committee of friends to help me launch the book. After scheduling in the launch date and meeting times We created a sponsorship scheme which asked people to pay $99 to sponsor a page in return for them dedicating that page to someone they knew. Two major sponsors also stepped forward for the book’s cover and recipe page and before we knew it we had the money to print under a sself published label of Silver Lined Creations.
 
4 months on from that March day,  I found myself standing in that place– in the waiting room of the eye department amongst my family and friends, fans and sponsors.  My visualised goal had now been realised. All the “how” of getting there was over.  I now stood in the place I had visualised all those months earlier.

Sometimes it’s good for there to be a time delay between planes arriving and planes departing. That day it gave just enough time for the picture of my goal to arrive in my mind and capture it in my memory before it departed! Boy - what a flight!

“Focus on the gain not the pain”

that blind woman

Julie Woods

Professional Speaker and coach 
julie@thatblindwoman.co.nz
www.thatblindwoman.co.nz