What largest time than the start of a new year to envision new possibilities! Most of us get ready by ownership a planner or a calendar. Empty pages filled with promise. But there’s flipside way to prepare for the year ahead. You can ask the counterpart to your Intellectual Planner Self, your Right-brained Imagination, to help you create a Vision Board.
You’re right… this exercise isn’t a new concept. But it’s a trusty tool. And it’s expressly fruitful if you’re longing for transpiration and can’t seem to think or plan yourself any closer to making it happen.
A vision workbench opens channels to ideas you may not realize you had.
Visioning Coaxes Your Dreams into Reality
Planners and calendars are perfect for scheduling and staying organized. Vision boards are intended to requite your wildest dreams some zoetic room.
They’ve been tabbed Creativity Collages, Image Banks… they’re a vivid reminder that too often we skip the dreaming and scheming phases of creating transpiration in our lives.
We’re socialized to take ACTION, and we often jump into that too quickly. We’d rather make whoopee plans, problem-solve, icon stuff out!
Vision boards requite us the needed permission to wonder “What if…”
Breathe Life into Your Intentions by Paying Sustentation to Them
When you make a vision workbench your subconscious mind runs the show, your playful self cuts loose, and your inner critic takes a nap.
Selecting words and images representing what you want or who you want to wilt allows your outer life to fall in line therefrom and informs you well-nigh what you need to pay sustentation to.
Take 5 Simple Steps
Ready to start the fun?
STEP 1: Choose Your Format
You have some options. You can make cards to put on your sedentary or tuck yonder for your vision only. Or use a message workbench with push pins.
You may want a poster workbench to hang in your hallway. Then everyone can hold your vision for you. Or maybe a imprint that hangs from your ceiling sounds well-nigh right.
You get the idea. There’s no wrong wordplay for Step 1.
STEP 2: Ask Yourself What Your Heart Truly Desires
Take deep breaths into Step 2. Get to the feelings underneath what you want.
If you want a million dollars, for example, ask yourself WHY? Deep down, what will that bring you? Security? Peace of mind? Freedom?
Don’t rush this step. Get to the essence of what you want. Requite your subconscious a endangerment to identify what’s truly at the heart of your desires.
Most importantly, don’t filter, judge, or criticize what you come up with.
STEP 3: Find Images That Speak to You
Do this leisurely. Magazines or the internet are unconfined sources. So are photos, your original art, or doodles.
It’s very important in Step 3 not to try to icon out why you are drawn to an image or a phrase. Or to talk yourself out of it. Just use it. The feeling overdue it came to you in Step 2.
Your creative self knows things your logical self doesn’t. And remember, that’s the side of you that’s doing this activity.
STEP 4: Place What You’ve Found or Created on Your Card or Board
Use glue, tape, pins, or whatever else works for the type of project you’re creating.
STEP 5: Put Your Workbench Where You’ll See It
You don’t have to build a shrine, stare at it for hours, or memorize it. It will still serve its purpose.
Your subconscious mind is amazingly effective.
Take note of when or how something from your workbench manifests. (Hint: It’s like getting a surprise that doesn’t finger that surprising.) Write these things lanugo or make a Vision Card Journal or Log.
You can use your shiny new planner to make your lists and set your appointments. But playing with a vision workbench yields flipside level of information.
Watch what happens. Maybe this year you’ll create what your heart truly desires. I hope you do!