vision boarding

Without my new vision board up, I’m feeling swirly. Not clear in my intention. I’m in this in-between state of creation that has me open to greatness for this year, but I also have a driving desire to anchor the eddy. I’m feeling ready to focus.

It’s been almost a month now since my annual vision board party. I love hosting the party. I always have some returning friends and this time many more newbies. I LOVE introducing the concept of vision boards and teach others how to really work it. However, I don’t give the time to myself to fully create and complete it during that weekend. I usually need to soak on it for about a month. I’m feeling ready to set my yearly intentions.

Here’s what I know to be true for me about the process of creating a vision board and tips about working it.

It opens me up to greater possibilities than I would have figured out on my own. It takes me in wholly different directions than I intended. This can be a beautiful thing.

Life does not obey our expectations. Life obeys our intentions, in ways we may not expect. - Lloyd Strom

Vision boarding has me step outside of my history, what typically would have happened knowing my habits and patterns. When you think about it, much of your life and those around you (because it’s easier to look outward than inward), is predictable. We all have friends and family where we “know” what’s going to happen in their lives, right? Same goes for you.

Live out of your imagination, not your history. – Stephen Covey

Creating a vision board is an inspired process. When I’m inspired, I feel uplifted, enhanced and on fire. I love this charge, this kind of electricity surging through me. I breathe it in ~~everyday~~ most days and reconnect with it. It’s what “working” your vision board is all about. Don’t let it become wall paper or hidden in your closet. Put it where you will see it everyday. (My board sits above my desk) Work it, girls!

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. – Howard Thurman

A part of the practice is bringing that feeling-thought connection to it. Remember how good it felt to have those good ideas, those synergistic moments in your cutting and girlfriend conversations. Keep with it and keep connecting to it. Look at what you created: your goals, your dreams. Think about how good it will feel when you get there! And keep breathing that in. That’s the powerful elixir. Drink deeply.

Don’t let your fears and sensibilities take you in the moment. Give the lighter, brighter side some power for a minute or two. There are enough doubting Thomases out there to squash your ideas, you don’t need to add to their chatter.

The Universe knows all things and is responding to the vibration that you are sending. When you are sending your vibration on purpose, you are orchestrating what the Universe is aligning for you.

– Abraham Hicks

When I create a vision board, I am open to magic, crazy synergistic possibilities that are yet to be revealed to me. I trust that inner voice, the one I need to listen to more often. It is the deep waters in me that flow. It’s my inner pilot light. I’m gonna let it shine. Trust the process. Believe.

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls. - Howard Thurman

If you haven’t created one this year, just do it. Find friends and create a wonderful afternoon doing it together. You can thank me later with a bottle of wine. Otherwise you may find yourself at the end of those strings again this time next year.