One of the core practices in NLP and personal development in general is to "visualise the desired outcome state" of a goal and to make it as real as possible.
Now I have my problems with the entire concept, but here's something for advanced Project Sanctuary users or beginner magicians, much the same thing really, that works a little different and may turn out to be slightly ... hmmmm ... well shall we be careful and say, more effective?
More transformative?