6 Easy Steps to Make your 2017 Vision Board
Ready to receive everything you desire?
Let the Universe know by making a vision board!
I just finished doing a vision board workshop over the weekend. Together, we cleared away what we no longer wanted from 2016 and opened the door to 2017.
Once we knew where we wanted to go, we set out to make boards!
If you missed my class, here is a brief explanation.
What is a Vision Board?
It’s a pictorial representation of your year, what you would like to manifest or be inspired by in the upcoming year.
Why do a Vision Board?
Ready to receive everything you desire?
Let the Universe know by making a vision board!
I just finished doing a vision board workshop over the weekend. Together, we cleared away what we no longer wanted from 2016 and opened the door to 2017.
Once we knew where we wanted to go, we set out to make boards!
If you missed my class, here is a brief explanation.
What is a Vision Board?
It’s a pictorial representation of your year, what you would like to manifest or be inspired by in the upcoming year.
Why do a Vision Board?
A vision board helps you to see exactly what you want to manifest for your year. We know that what we focus on expands so we always want to focus on what we want. A vision board helps that happen.
Ready to start? Here are the steps:
Step 1 – Get Clear
Spend some time making a list of goals and intentions for your year. Think about every aspect of life: career, health, finances, relationships, learning, creativity, spirituality and- don't forget- fun!
Most of all, think about how you want to feel this year – happy, expansive, clear, vibrant, positive, loving, grateful…
Step 2 - Get Your Supplies
Stop by the craft store and look for the following:
- Something Flat - poster board, foam board, cardboard or canvas panels
- Glue – the best one is Elmer’s Rubber Cement. It’s smelly but doesn’t buckle your paper or come off
- Scissors
- Images – Get a pile of magazines to thumb through. You can also use photographs that you have or grab online
- Words or Phrases (from magazines, online or stickers)
- Anything Else Fun – markers, stickers, glitter, ribbon, stencil lettering, craft paper
Step 3 - Rip & Cut
Cut out images, words, and phrases that speak to you and relate to your goals and intentions. Make a big pile. Then trim and neaten each piece up.
Step 4 – Lay Out
Take your words and images and begin to lay them out onto your board until you’re happy with the style and placement. The look and design is up to you and your creativity! Allow yourself to relax and let it flow.
Some people keep it really simple with their word for the year and a few images. Others (like me) tend to cover every square inch.
The look and feel is entirely up to you. Just remember to think holistically – and incorporate every aspect of your life – mind, body, emotion, spirit…
You may not use your entire pile of images and words. Feel free to save those for next year in a Ziploc bag.
Step 5 – Glue
When you’re happy with the layout, glue everything into place.
Step 6 – Placement
Find the PERFECT location in your home or office for your board. Somewhere you’ll see it all the time. I put mine on my desk where I look at it throughout the day.
Some people put it on their altars or sacred spaces. Others prefer the kitchen or bathroom!
Find the place that’s right for you – somewhere you can see it everyday.
This is your opportunity to have fun and manifest your dreams in 2017!
When you’re done, post your boards below or on my Facebook page so I can see them!
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Move Through - Make This YOUR Year
Now that January is back in swing and your life has returned to business as usual, it’s time to ask yourself, is this exactly what you want? Life as usual?
If you’re really ready to take your year and your life to the next level, it will require change.
As Einstein is often quoted as saying, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
If you want different results in your life, here are 3 areas to explore:
Now that January is back in swing and life has returned to business as usual, it’s time to ask yourself, is this exactly what you want? Life as usual?
If you’re really ready to take your year and your life to the next level, it will require change.
As Einstein is often quoted as saying, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
If you want different results in your life, here are 3 ideas to explore:
1. Making New Habits Means Breaking Old Ones
One of my goals for 2016 is to be more visible on Social Media but that means I actually have to go onto my Twitter account, Instagram and Facebook.
I have to change my habit from perusal, from when I “feel” like it to actually scheduling it into my day and making a point of connecting to people.
My habit of scrolling lazily through my Facebook feed as I lie in bed is what I’m used to, so I keep doing it but it won’t help me achieve my goal. That requires me to foster a new habit.
What habit are you ready to change?
2. This Place is Familiar and Comfortable
So many people are unhappy in some area of their lives – with their bodies, relationships, careers, yet there is a comfort in that discomfort.
We’re used to feeling it. We’ve felt it for so long, it’s familiar. Sometimes that suffering even helps define who you are. And yet we also yearn to be free of it.
How would it feel to be without that pain?
To be in your dream body, relationship or job? Can you imagine yourself living a life of true joy, with a partner who absolutely supported you, in a body you embraced? What needs to change?
If you can imagine it, you can step into it!
3. The Upper Limit Problem
I first heard this concept in Gay Hendricks’ book, The Big Leap.
Essentially, what he explains is that we all have an unconscious set point for how much good, success, power, money, health, etc. we’re willing to accept into our lives and when we hit that threshold, we get stopped.
Think about it.
Have you ever had a huge breakthrough in one aspect of your life, maybe you got a great promotion, were ecstatic about that, came home and got in a huge argument with your spouse? That’s an example of the upper limit problem in action.
Or maybe you’re finally ready to launch your first webinar and you wake up feverish with the flu.
We upper limit ourselves because we don’t believe we deserve everything.
So when something goes well in our lives- we become super fit, publish a great article, hit a sales figure- something else in our lives has to suffer.
The first step in overcoming this is awareness that it exists at all! Then, it’s a dive in to understand what and why we hold ourselves back.
Is it an old story from childhood? An unconscious belief that is no longer true for you?
You deserve everything and Source/the Universe/God (whatever name you like) wants to give it to you.
Are you ready to receive it?
What habits and old stories are you ready to let go? Where do you see the upper limit problem manifesting in your life? Ready to break through?
Take some time to ponder these three issues. Dive into them and see what comes up. Use them as questions to ask while you meditate.