Vision Boards: Your Guide to Defining and Manifesting Your Vision

As the title suggests, you can define your vision with a vision board.  Ask yourself, what do you truly want and how might you get it? 

Start searching magazines, Google, and your own photos for images you can put on a poster board, a bulletin board, or even a wall.   Poster board is in the neighborhood of 50 cents to $1.50 per sheet.   White poster board is the most common.  But you could select another color, like green, which is the color of growth, etc.  Of course you'll need a color printer and quality paper if you are going to download and print pictures. 

What do you need to do to reach your goal or to be in perpetual bliss?  If you can't find the image to express your process (your plan or your means) or desire, just print out your affirmations or statements and tape them to your vision board.

Let me give you some sample affirmations you can add to your vision board:

- Write your heart out.

- I boldly embrace my destiny.

- I work 80 hours a week standing on my head.

- I enthusiastically search for prospects.

- No detail slips past me.

- You are the spin-doctor.

- Mrs. Solutions.

- Eat to live.

- Endurance, Focus, Follow Through.

- Think laterally.

- The man with a plan and a back-up plan.

- Regret Minimization Strategy.

- World Class ________.

- When the student is ready the master will appear.

- Be the miracle!

- Dynamic!

- International Man of Mystery.

- Lazy men are soon poor, but hard workers get rich. (Proverbs 10:4)

- Break through.

- Out of the matrix.

- Build what you don't have.

Decide on a few affirmations that will remind you of what you need to be and do to reach your goal, or to simply be happy.  The rewards may be important, but the team, the process, and ideals matter too.

If you want to be free of something, you could simply say "Free of x" or "x free."  But pop psychologists would probably say to instead state what you do want.  The opposite maybe.  If you say you are smoke free, that's a fine affirmation to me.  It can be tough to find an opposite that you really do want.  It's your vision board.

You could also print out or find the word in a magazine that says the name of the emotion you want: passion, love, inspiration, spontaneity, and so forth.  Accomplishments and material things are good, but you will want to experience the emotions you most desire. 

Try to focus on all areas of life: physical (health), spiritual, relationships, family, financial, and career.  You don't want to be the sickest yacht owner on the island.  You don't want to be completely alone and miserable on your island. 

Where can you find pictures? Here is a list:

- Yahoo and Google

- Facebook

- My Yahoo group "IndependentWealth" has hundreds of quality images. 

- Magazines (Robb Report, fitness, travel, and other magazines).  You could find a used magazine store with inexpensive magazines near you.

- Catalogs.

- Take pictures with your phone.

- Make a drawing or cartoon.

- Pinterest.

- Instagram.

- Postcards.

- The original scrap of paper, business card, or napkin you write your business idea or your spouse's phone number on.

Here is something not to do.  Don't remind yourself of failures or other headaches.  People often set unrealistic goals.  You aren't obligated to torture yourself with fear or bad memories, you're not.  Instead, you can use affirmations and images that imply you've swept awful experiences aside.  Now you're focused on traits, goals, rewards and feelings.

If your poster board proves to be too small, just attach the original to a bigger board.  You could tape two vision boards to each other. 

Now, when you're done tack up your vision board where you'll see it:

- By the front door.

- Above your desk.

- In your bedroom, especially if you're likely to see it when you wake up.

Looking at your vision board will doubtlessly help you with any visualization problems.  Taking a gander at your vision board will also help you clarify for your conscious and subconscious mind exactly what your goals are and what you need to be and do to have what you intend.

It obviously isn't practical to carry your vision board with you.  But taking a picture of it with your cell phone is an idea.  You could, on some laptops, use your vision board as your desktop background.

If you are decisive and have no reservations about your goals, dreams, hopes, and ambitions, go get what you need.  If things change years down the road you can make a new vision board.  If you use scotch tape on the back of your pictures and papers, you can switch items.