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A great post by Internet friend Diana reminded me of the power of using a vision board to frame your thoughts and aspirations for the new year.
Basically a vision board or a dream board is way for you to visualize your goals and dreams and use the law of attraction to bring them to fruition. It is usually a collage of pictures, powerful words, and affirmations that you put together to ”create” the reality you want. I have made vision boards in days past the same way Diana did…with poster-board and magazine cutouts. But I recently found an an awesome piece of software that allows you to create your vision board on your computer and create a personalized screen saver. You can select your own pictures or use ones in the library and you can use your own affirmations and power words or use some of the dozens stored in the program. It might literally only take you ten minutes to create a beautiful vision board screen saver that pops up every now and again to remind you of where your life “should” be heading. It is an amazing tool.
Diana picked Gratitude as her theme for this year after 10 years of picking Freedom. I love the idea of making freedom your theme for the year and almost picked that but I decided on Vitality instead. The past few of years have been rough with multiple surgeries, cancer, chemotherapy, and 4 years of either being pregnant or breastfeeding or both. My vitality was sucked pretty dry, LOL. So this year, restoring my vitality or Life Force to the youthful and energetic state it should be in, will be my priority for personal development in 2008.
Once you know what you want you need to map out the path with pictures so I added representations of living/raw foods (healthy diet), pilates and running (exercise), spending time with my kids (love), sitting on a beach with my love (relationship), etc. All of these things and others all form the “picture” of what I want to create. Now that I think more about it I need to call my earliest version a rough draft and add some more images.
The background image I selected for my vision board is below:
So how about you? Will you create a vision board? What is your theme for the new year?
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Diana Walker said,
December 31, 2007 at 4:07 pm:
Oh, Tiffany, I love the graphic that you chose - very beautiful. And your theme of Vitality is perfect for you. Thanks so much for the mention on your blog, and for elaborating and expanding on the Vision Board subject - I think it is so important on this journey we are on, to have a vision/theme, and work with our feelings and attitudes and “spirit”, along with the material side of life, which goal-setting sometimes is limited to.
Happy 2008!
Diana
Happy New Year! | Tiffany Washko - Mother, Writer, Environmentalist said,
December 31, 2007 at 9:49 pm:
[...] is making goals and resolutions during this time of year. I know I did. I even made a couple vision boards to direct my [...]
Nell said,
January 1, 2008 at 12:25 pm:
What’s up with all the spammy backlinks? Don’t you just hate that? lol
I pick freedom myself. It fits perfectly with the goals I’ve made for the new year.
Nell’s last blog post..The New Year Brings Changes
Pinar said,
January 1, 2008 at 3:58 pm:
First of all, I would like to wish you success in reaching your vision of vitality. I was sorry to hear about your cancer and treatment… I wish you health.
I love the idea of maintaining a vitality board. I wanted to tie this to another recent post which mentioned the Freeconomy Community. The idea of a Freeconomy Community is wonderful. Recently, I brought the idea to the attention of someone dear to me. The response was very pessimistic: “it’s been talked about and tried in the past without success… it’s a waste of time… it’s dangerous… at a little over 2000 members it won’t go anywhere, compared to the population of the world” I, on the other hand, believe the Freeconomy Community (page, philosophy and membership) is like a vitality board - it’s what many of us want and what we will remind ourselves about and make changes here and there to bring about a change in the larger community… as far as I’m concerned many of the components of this philosophy are immediately achievable at a micro level and can eventually be carried out at a macro level too.
Now, for my personal vitality board… I’m going to have to think about this for a while… I will post again once I’ve decided.
Pinar’s last blog post..Looking Back While Looking Ahead