Goal achievement - Visualization vs fantasizing

When do you know you are fantasizing and not visualizing your goals and visions?

I started on a new journey to towards my major goals recently. I always believed in the law of attraction and creation. and have successfully used and implemented it up until this point in my life. Now my next vision and goal feels so massive for me it brings forth a lot of self doubt and mental discomfort.
I started the process of goal setting an goal defining a few weeks ago. It was amazing, the new goal and vision IS my life.
I started off great, motivation was threw the roof, visualizing was on point and my emotions was boiling with excitement. It felt like i'm on my way to create this in one month....hehe.
Then week 3 came, things started to become challenging, my mind and emotions wanted to go back to what they are used too, but i don't. The thing is, i don't know how it is to have what i am envisioning, i never had it before, i never truly experienced it before on such a scale. It is all new.

So, some of the challenges week 3 posed was, Life: "Do you really want this? Come on, let me show you what you already have, what you are used too. Its easy, just keep on doing what you have been doing before. Tomorrow you will have it again, easy peasy."
Life will always ask you if you are really, really, really sure this goal/vision is what you truly want. It will give you examples of what you already have in your life, instead of a red Ferrari, you have a red polo GTI, then you might accept it and forget about your goals and dreams, only to be reminded in your midlife crisis that you actually wanted a Ferrari and you could have had it by now.

If you answer life with a "YES", life will demand from you things you have never done and thought before on this scale. Life will demand from you to know exactly what you want and how it will feel.

So my motivation to continue dipped a little bit, my mind played tricks on me, trying to accept the status quo. My visualizations vague like a plain flying into the distance. Then i started to increase my intensity, after all, im not going to give up this time. I could only do that by thinking of an aspect of my vision. This helped to keep my mind from slipping from my vision and goal.
I started thinking how i would do stuff, but very superficial, what will i do everyday etc. But that got filled up really quick, then i needed more material to keep my focus. i started to enjoy the thoughts more than creating the feeling, the feelings after all was overrun with doubt by this point.
So i asked myself, what is the difference between visualizing and fantasizing. There is a very thin line between the two and it is easy to get caught up in fantasizing.

Fantasizing is just thinking about your ideal future or state. It is not really helping you achieve it. Severe fantasizing can lead to depression if you really truly want it, fantasize about it daily, but no results are forth coming. That is quite depressing.

Visualizing should focus on the practical aspects of your goal and avoid entertaining fantasy.

I.e. You want a R20 million house and a Ferrari in the garage, fantasizing will be where you see yourself driving in the car all day long and watching TV from your pool with lots of babes and hunks. If you never had this before, you do not know what it takes to get/earn it. Fantasizing sitting and driving in a Ferrari is not going to get you there. It will get you to sit in a Ferrari at a dealership and being asked to kindly leave.

So, a secret to visualizing is to, visualize the steps and actions needed to get this goal.

• What are you willing to do to get this? New job, own business, gambling etc. 
• what are you willing to give up? You have what you have because you have been doing what you have been doing all along. Get it? To get more than you have, you have to do more than you are currently doing. Example, give up some TV time, go out less for a period, give up a hobby to pursue your goal. It all comes at a price. 
• Visualize the steps needed for you to achieve your goal. I.e. i need to make R5 million a year for 4 years to buys this house. how?
• Join a network marketing company
• start your own business. 
• develop your talents like acting, singing, artist etc. 
• find ways to make the amount of money you need by digging deep and believing. (Belief is another topic on its own)

Rather visualize and work out the steps to be taken, plans on how to action those steps and keeping the driving force alive. 

By doing this you will face potential obstacles in your mind and overcome them before they happen or blind side you. You will be more prepared for any challenges and will not deviate from your goal as easy because you are prepared for the challenge. 

This brings much more structure to your goals and a level of certainty that you are well on your way to achieve your goal. 

Make your vision real by visualizing the way you will achieve your goal and vision, instead of fantasizing about your vision and forget to action your dreams.

Visualize well my friends, and enjoy the journey to fulfillment.