Envision Greatness

While I was flipping through a magazine yesterday, I gawked at dozens of ads for trendy clothing, fancy jewelry, cars, shoes, and beauty products.  I would love to have many of these items, but as a broke college student, they don’t seem all that realistic, at least for now.  In my last blog entry I wrote about techniques that help you get the salary you want.  Now, only if there was a technique to get a perfect job, the latest gadgets and clothes.  Well, you’re just in luck!  The key to achieving your goals is to create something called a vision board. 

A vision board is sort of like a big collage that can be created on a poster or online.  It’s an accumulation of pictures, words, and goals that help you visualize your desires and turn them into a reality.  Using pictures and words have proven to help people focus and stay positive through the Law of Attraction.

To start a vision board, you must begin with a list of goals.  For the most part, the goals are ones you want to achieve throughout your life, not just short term objectives.  For example, do you love your job? Are you making an ample amount of money?  Also, think about some things that are missing from your life and what you want in your future. 

 Some things I want in my future 10 years from now include: traveling the world, have a job I love with benefits and a large salary, get married and start a family, buy a new car, be in immaculate physical condition, and become a homeowner.  Pictures I would put on my board could be places I want to visit like: Maldives, Italy, Portugal, France, Hawaii, and the Caribbean Islands.  However, the most important goal should be in the center of your vision board.  My biggest goal right now is to start my career and find a job I love.  On my vision board, I could cut out a picture of myself and write a caption that says the company name I consider to be my dream job.  The picture below is a visual board I put together fairly quickly as an example.  

           

Although I prefer pasting pictures to a poster or taping them to the wall, you can create a vision board electronically as well.  There are many Web sites that have visual board software (some you have to download).  Using online software may save you a little time than flipping through magazines, cutting out pictures, and pasting them to a poster.  A popular Web site for creating visual boards is visionboardsite.com. Click here to watch a tutorial on using the Web site.  In my opinion, the only downside to having an online vision board is you have to log on the computer to look at it.  One of the purposes of having a vision board in the first place is that it is visible. 

For more information on vision boards, I suggest reading “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Vision Boards,” by Marcia Layton Turner.  I found this book when Boarders was going into liquidation a few months ago.  It has been very helpful for me and I’m sure it will do the same for you.  Some other great articles I found came from Oprah.com.  Click here and here to read the articles.