The Greek Philosopher Aristotle defined a successful life as living in a way that aligns with your purpose. If this definition resonates with you, then you get to decide what you want out of life, what your personal values are, and what success looks like for you. Once you've identified what success means to you, you can implement some reliable strategies to help create this reality.

Here are a few tips:

Visualization is an effective strategy that has been used in therapeutic contexts for decades to enhance cognitive, emotional, and behavioral change (Blackwell, 2019). When we visualize a particular action, our brains are essentially rehearsing that action. For example, neuroscience studies using brain imaging techniques have shown that when we imagine making a movement, our brains are activated in the same way that they would be if we were actually making that movement (Pearson et al., 2015). In the same way that imagining an action is a sort of mental rehearsal, we can use mental imagery to identify the........

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