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To get good results again, as you have in the past, fill in this Strategy Elicitation Sheet and submit to get a printable report. - You may want to refer to your list of successes to choose a good one.

For example: Learning to ride a bike would include visualizing yourself riding, thinking of the success, possibly falling down and brushing it off and going again.


Sensation + Thought/Action + Emotion + Physical + Stimulus Out/In + Modality + Locus + Motion/Variation


Think of something you did that worked well for you, a state or feeling that was good, and bring that situation well to mind.
I did well at:

If you were to recall a time when you really felt the feeling preceeding those good results and thought back to what was happening...
What were you thinking and doing right as you started, or a bit before:


What was your emotional state, what were you doing, feeling, thinking, seeing....


What was your expression and posture:

What was the very first stimulus, internal or external:

What was the modality: "I saw...", "I felt...", "I touched...", smelled, heard or tasted. IE., "I looked at my goal and felt tingly excitement."

Was it Internal or from outside?

Where did the stimulus come from, what location or direction?

Describe the qualities, intensity, motions, size, brightness, changes, spreading, etc.:


Continue below or

What was the very next stimulus, feeling or thought?

What were you thinking and doing right then:


What was your expression and posture:

What was the Second stimulus, internal or external:

What was the modality: "I saw...", "I felt...", "I touched...", smelled, heard or tasted. IE., "I looked at my goal and felt tingly excitement."

Was it Internal or from outside?

Where did the stimulus come from, what location or direction?

Describe the qualities, intensity, motions, size, brightness, changes, spreading, etc.:


Continue below or

Keep doing these till you have all the feelings, motions and details possible. What were you thinking and doing right then:


What was your expression and posture:

What was the Third stimulus, internal or external:

What was the modality: "I saw...", "I felt...", "I touched...", smelled, heard or tasted. IE., "I looked at my goal and felt tingly excitement."

Was it Internal or from outside?

Where did the stimulus come from, what location or direction?

Describe the qualities, intensity, motions, size, brightness, changes, spreading, etc.:


Continue below or

What were you thinking and doing right then:


What was your expression and posture:

What was the Fourth stimulus, internal or external:

What was the modality: "I saw...", "I felt...", "I touched...", smelled, heard or tasted. IE., "I looked at my goal and felt tingly excitement."

Was it Internal or from outside?

Where did the stimulus come from, what location or direction?

Describe the qualities, intensity, motions, size, brightness, changes, spreading, etc.:


Continue below or

What were you thinking and doing right then:


What was your expression and posture:

What was the Fifth stimulus, internal or external:

What was the modality: "I saw...", "I felt...", "I touched...", smelled, heard or tasted. IE., "I looked at my goal and felt tingly excitement."

Was it Internal or from outside?

Where did the stimulus come from, what location or direction?

Describe the qualities, intensity, motions, size, brightness, changes, spreading, etc.:


Continue below or

What were you thinking and doing right then:


What was your expression and posture:

What was the Sixth stimulus, internal or external:

What was the modality: "I saw...", "I felt...", "I touched...", smelled, heard or tasted. IE., "I looked at my goal and felt tingly excitement."

Was it Internal or from outside?

Where did the stimulus come from, what location or direction?

Describe the qualities, intensity, motions, size, brightness, changes, spreading, etc.:


Continue below or

What were you thinking and doing right then:


What was your expression and posture:

What was the Seventh stimulus, internal or external:

What was the modality: "I saw...", "I felt...", "I touched...", smelled, heard or tasted. IE., "I looked at my goal and felt tingly excitement."

Was it Internal or from outside?

Where did the stimulus come from, what location or direction?

Describe the qualities, intensity, motions, size, brightness, changes, spreading, etc.: