Visualizing long-term goals with rich detail can increase systolic blood pressure and readiness, but this effect quickly wanes.

“And basically what happens is, if you measure people's blood pressure or other metrics of physiology, you see an increase in that systolic blood pressure. There's an kind of a ramping up of the readiness and excitement for that goal, but that increase in blood pressure quickly wanes. And over time, that visual of the long-term goal, becomes a poor thing to rely on in order to generate the actions that are required to reach that goal.”