Make the day-dreams come true. Make them so clear and distinct that they impress themselves upon your subconscious mind. There’s nothing wrong with day-dreaming, except that most of us stop there. We don’t try to make the dreams come true. The great inventor, Tesla, “dreams” every new machine complete and perfect in every particular before ever he begins his model for it. Mozart “dreamed” each of his wonderful symphonies complete before ever he put a note on paper. But they didn’t stop with the dreaming. They visualized those dreams, and then brought them into actuality.
We lose our capacity to have visions if we do not take steps to realize them.
—The Secret of the Ages, by Robert Collier, [1926]