I wrote last week about writing a story to help with using creative visualization techniques to help you achieve your goals.  Now I'm going to cover another area: using photos, drawings and paintings.  Doing this with non-spiritual goals is usually recommended in books about visualization.  A common one if for people trying to loose weight.  Looking at a photo of yourself when you were thin and using it to help you visualize yourself as thin again helps.  If you don't have a photo of yourself thin, you can use a photo of someone else, draw or paint a picture of yourself thin, or get someone else to draw or paint the picture for you.  If your problem is money, the same method works.  Use pictures of someone who does have money, perhaps a picture of a celebrity in front of a very expensive car, and visualize yourself in that picture instead.
    So how do you use this method for spiritual goals?  Well you probably don't have and photos of yourself as a highly developed spiritual person, sage or avatar, so you have to use pictures of someone else.  Pictures of saints, gurus, or other holy people you admire are best.  Catholics do this to some extent with the idea of a patron saint who's name is added to your own during confirmation.  Unfortunately, twelve or thirteen is usually too young to make such a choice in a serious manner, but the basic idea is a good one.  Once you make the choice, than you use that picture to help you visualize yourself behaving like that person and becoming as enlightened as that person.  
    Of course, visualization alone won't cause you to achieve your spiritual goals, but it can help.