The Vision Board

How To Use Your Vision Statement
Post it where you can see it.
Check it daily.
Revise it at the start of every season (summer, fall, winter, spring).
Carry a copy of it on a small card in your wallet.
Add it to your vision board.
Create or acquire some visual reminders.
Print it on the back of your business cards.

The why is important—think your destiny and your legacy—don’t worry about the what or the how right now.

In my experience, an effective vision statement is memorable and empowered by passion and positive emotion. If yours is not powerful—if it doesn’t truly inspire you—then craft another!

All too often when I look at blogs online or when people say to me that visioning doesn’t work for them or that they tried a vision board and nothing happened I realize that their vision statement didn’t come from their heart nor was it soul-inspired.

Stand up and walk around the table, glancing at the pictures from right to left, upside down, and back to facing them again.
Shuffle the pictures: Do this until you get a sense of how they “fit together”—it’s a gut thing. Maybe something about the colors, the design, or the actual content of the images seems to go into a certain sequence.
Grab a pencil and pad of paper: Write down “possible” life opportunities or “destinations.”

The goal of a visioning session is to capture recurring themes, actual phrases, and suggestions that may inspire you not only in the creation of your vision board but also in the next steps of your life experience. If you prefer to re-create the process alone, try the “Passport to Possibility” activity (Visioning).

G stands for gratitude
R for release and receive
A for acknowledge and ask
B for be and believe
S for share

Believe that anything and everything is possible. Don’t ask how, don’t ask if you are deserving, don’t question why you versus someone else. Finally, share the bounty received. Abundance should be shared. This will increase the power of change in your life and inspire others. Help others be grateful, give to them, and you’ll receive in return. Be assured that by sharing you are seeding your own harvest in return.

Bob Proctor explains that “everything that’s coming into your life you are attracting into your life. And it’s attracted to you by virtue of the images you’re holding in your mind. It’s what you’re thinking. You are attracting whatever is going on in your mind.”

Through the visioning process you’ll discover some of your own positive affirmations and will want to begin to focus on new beliefs and leave the past behind.