People who travel a great deal internationally say that they set their watches to destination time as soon as they board an airplane. They start living in the time zone to which they are traveling. Success is much like that. Once we’ve set ourselves toward a particular goal, we start thinking of ourselves in terms of having accomplished that goal. On the inside, we live as if we have already reached our goal. We become successful people in our thinking, even though nothing about our external lives may have changed yet.
Thomas Nelson, Nashville, You Don’t Have to Be Blind to See, by Jim Stovall