Excellent post, Ricky.
This is what I mean when I keep saying that if people are really doing their IM properly, they aren't going to be just sitting on their butts waiting for goodies to fall from the sky or appear out of thin air.
The very act of visualisation drives you into making the image come true. The motivation follows automatically.
If you want an earthy example, simply visualise some sexy scenes. Very soon, certain parts of your anatomy will begin to respond. You will feel motivated to have sex.
If you intensely imagine a delicious meal, you will begin to salivate, or to experience hunger.
The same goes for many, many other things. The visualisation, once done, does not supply motivation only there and then, but can have longer-lasting effects.
If you intensely visualise yourself having a fit, healthy body, then later you will feel an urge to exercise, you will lose the desire for unhealthy foods, you will want to get sufficient rest etc.
If you visualise having a million dollars, then as you go about your daily life, you will automatically be motivated to do things that can bring you closer to getting a million dollars.
If you visualise yourself giving a public speech with confidence, style and class, you will be much likelier to deliver that speech with confidence, style and class.
If you visualise every single golf shot you take, before you actually take it - if you visualise the shot shape, trajectory and even how the ball would react - you will just be doing
what Jack Nicklaus does all the time.