What is a vision board?

Manifest the life you've always dreamed of living by creating a beautiful vision board!

What is a vision board?

A vision board is a tool which can be used to manifest your desires. It can help you to focus on certain areas of your life or to look at your life as a whole. Vision boards are created from images that you have collected from various sources such as magazines or the internet.

I have my vision board displayed in my bedroom and stop and look at it every day. However for years this is as far as I went. I had a board on my wall and looked at it every now and again, some of the things seemed to occur in my life and other seemed like they were just a distant dream. I was trying to manifest but was stuck in the wanting stage and hadn't yet moved into the receiving stage. I became frustrated and didn't believe that I was able to change my life.

I then came up with a strategy to really motivate and focus my attention on achieving the life I wanted. I had just turned thirty and was fed up with the life that society thinks we should be leading. I felt that I hadn't achieved the career success or relationship goals that other people seemed to. I began to compare myself negatively with other people. Then I realised that if anything was going to change I needed to make the changes myself.

Here’s how I made my vision board work for me.

1. I created a brand new vision board. First I did a meditation to calm my mind and get me into a positive state. I allowed myself to dream and to visualise the life I really wanted.

2. Then I got my stake of magazines and began to flick through them whilst listening to relaxing music. I used meditation music but you may like to try more uplifting or energising music. What ever gets you in a creative inspiring mood. I cut out the images that inspired me, the images of things that I wanted to create in my life. I cut out images of fruit to represent better health and of a beach as this was the dream location for my new house.

3. Once I had finished my vision board I put it on the wall where I would see it regularly. I then looked at each image individually and really started to think about why I wanted it and how I was going to get it to show up in my life. I wrote down a goal for how I was going to achieve each of the things on my board.

For example as fruit represents health I decide that I would make a fruit smoothie every day to improve my health. I immediately got my blender out of the cupboard, where it had been gathering dust. Washed it and left it in the kitchen where I would see it on a daily basis to remind me to make a smoothie.

I came up with similar strategies for each image.

4. Each morning I looked at my vision board and meditated in front of it. I visualised having the things I wanted in my life. Each day I also read my list of goals and I asked myself. What can I do today to bring me closer towards achieving this version of my life? After a month I realised that I had made a lot of positive changes in my life. It only takes 30 days for new habits to be formed and I was able to introduce positive life style changes and make them stick. As these changes became a habit I did them automatically and was then able to make other changes. In this way I was able to achieve my whole list of goals in a fairly short space of time. Even though when I initially read my list of goals it seemed overwhelming and like it was a lot to take on. I felt that I wouldn't have the time to achieve them all but in the end was able to initiate them into my life. After a while I realised that I had almost all the things on my vision board in my life. It was time to create a new, even more ambitious vision board.

Task

Create your own vision board for an area of your life which you would like to improve. Follow my steps above to create lasting positive changes in your life.

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Words: Jayne Todd