{"id":9727,"date":"2011-02-06T06:01:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T11:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=9727"},"modified":"2011-02-06T06:05:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T11:05:59","slug":"first-visualize-yourself-being-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/first-visualize-yourself-being-great","title":{"rendered":"First Visualize Yourself Being Great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently we shared an awesome <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/how-to-be-successful\">video interview<\/a> with legendary guitarist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vai.com\/\">Steve Vai<\/a> on how to become successful thanks to Z$. \u00a0Reader Derek was so generous to shoot me an email on another gem from Mr. Vai (see below). \u00a0Here Vai, like NCAA leading scorer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/stealing-from-jimmer-fredette\">Jimmer Fredette<\/a>, preaches the importance of visualizing yourself being great as a catalyst to becoming great. \u00a0Both sat in their beds at night and imagined performing like a superstar live.<\/p>\n<p>What would it look like for you to become a great trader? \u00a0How would that feel? \u00a0What would that mean to your life?  I would bet that Aaron Rodgers sat in bed last night dreaming of playing great in the Super Bowl. \u00a0Consider creating that character in your mind and see how that effects your trading.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/T5Pn4LMJ9ZM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/T5Pn4LMJ9ZM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Mike Bellafiore<br \/>\nAuthor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Good-Trade-Competitive-ebook\/dp\/B003VIWRJA\/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&#038;m=AG56TWVU5XWC2\">One Good Trade<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently we shared an awesome video interview with legendary guitarist Steve Vai on how to become successful thanks to Z$. \u00a0Reader Derek was so generous to shoot me an email on another gem from Mr. Vai (see below). \u00a0Here Vai, like NCAA leading scorer Jimmer Fredette, preaches the importance of visualizing yourself being great as a catalyst to becoming great. &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/first-visualize-yourself-being-great\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1602,4674,81,1585,1193,653,1354,1349,309],"class_list":["post-9727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mike-bellafiore-bellas-blogs","tag-jimmer-fredetter","tag-one-good-trade","tag-smb-training","tag-steve-vai","tag-trader-education","tag-trader-training","tag-trading-coach","tag-trading-mentor","tag-visualization","no-post-thumbnail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>First Visualize Yourself Being Great | SMB Training<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/first-visualize-yourself-being-great\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"First Visualize Yourself Being Great | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Recently we shared an awesome video interview with legendary guitarist Steve Vai on how to become successful thanks to Z$. \u00a0Reader Derek was so generous to shoot me an email on another gem from Mr. Vai (see below). \u00a0Here Vai, like NCAA leading scorer Jimmer Fredette, preaches the importance of visualizing yourself being great as a catalyst to becoming great. ... 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