The Raffle Game has given the Sales Manifestation seminars some of the best discussions. This exercise has everyone participate, and there is only one winner. Everyone puts their card in a bowl, visualizes winning the prize, and I draw out a card and name the winner.

We discuss why this person won, and why other’s didn’t. This gives us the opportunity to compare notes on our visualization techniques, providing feedback to one another.

At the end of one Sales Manifestation seminar, we played the Raffle Game with the book “The Richest Man in Babylon” by George S Clason as the prize. I had everyone use the techniques we had discussed and practiced through the seminar. Everyone closed their eyes and imagined me reaching into the bowl to draw out their own card.

The winner, Charlie, did something different. He visualized himself in bed, reading the last two pages.

The last two pages.

He got specific. He got detailed. He used the mechanics of visualization to manifest something, by understanding how this works, and applying those rules to his structured thought.

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