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The Vision Board - Watch It Happen
A Vision Board reflects vivid imagery to remind you every day of
where you are going. Not sure where that is? Read along.
You can’t get to a destination if you don’t know where that is. You
create your Vision Board to reflect where you see yourself or your
business when you’ve reached your ultimate goal. This will add
clarity to your calling and allow you to visit a crisp image of where
you are headed every day – even if right now that image looks
more like an out of focus blur.
Supplies You Will Need to Create Your Vision Board
1. Poster or foam board.
2. Markers
3. Yes! Glue or Rubber Cement. Not Elmer’s glue as it will ripple
your images.
4. A stack of magazines of varying types. Collect them from friends
or doctor’s offices. Make sure they are different or you will be
limited. Use magazines on business, fashion, women’s issues,
sports, nature, cooking, fitness, travel, etc. You may choose to use
photographs or other art textures.
How to Create Your Vision Board
1. Prepare yourself to be open. Sit quietly in a warm and
comfortable place that inspires you before beginning to create your
Vision Board. Put on inspirational or calming music. Light a candle
or open a window for the fresh sounds and smells of nature. Allow
your stressors, your worries, your outside influences and your ego
to take a back seat for a little while. Relax completely and let your
mind go blank. Don’t concentrate on the end results. Concentrate
on nothing – just being.
2. Have tools of inspiration in front of you. These include but are
not limited to a desk accessory that inspires you, a photograph,
your journal or the results of exercises you may have done on my
Web site that have helped you define your VALUES, your
STRENGTHS, your SUCCESS SKETCH, your PURPOSE.
3. Spread out magazines of all types. Go through them collecting
images and words that evoke wonder and joy as well as those that
reflect the state of fulfillment you want to achieve. You may not
entirely know what your “Vision” is. That is ok. Your Board may be
an “Open and Accepting” Vision Board. It is important to gather
images that evoke a positive emotion – even if the image is not
reflective of anything in particular. What takes your breath away?
What makes you smile? What makes you feel love? Make a big
pile. Have a lot of fun!
4. Begin to select the images and words that truly speak to
where you want to be and place them on the blank board.
Eliminate images that are not quite right. You will get a sense of
how you want to design your board when you begin to create. You
may make concentric rings – each one reflecting a certain part of
your vision. Or you may have corners dedicated to certain themes.
Be free!
5. Permanently affix images and words to the board. Glue down
the images. Write powerful words on the board that describe your
vision: “Sales Genius,” “Social Media Maven,” “Six Digit Business.”
You may want to put a photograph of yourself on the board.
6. Place your vision board where you will see it every day – and
often times each day. Celebrate its message.
A Vision Journal
You may find that you will go through many transitions in your life.
Some of my clients keep their vision images in a journal so that
the vision ebbs and flows with their changing situation. For this all
you will need is a hard bound journal to replace the foam board
above. Create!
This is a great activity to do with some friends on a cold winter
afternoon or evening. See yourself where you want to be – not the
impediments that are before you today. Reflect on that image every
day. Start now and watch what happens!
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How to Turn Thought Into Habit for Your Team at Articles and Tip
Sheets.
Mary Lee Gannon is the president of StartingOverNow.com –
Creating Productivity Solutions for People and Organizations.
Mary Lee is a graduate of The Duquesne University Professional
Coaching Program and an alumnus of the 2010 Harvard Medical
School and McLean Hospital Coaching in Medicine & Leadership
Conference. Her personal turnaround came as a stay-at-home
mother, with four children under seven-years-old, who endured a
divorce that took she and the children from the country club life to
public assistance from where within a short time she worked to the
level of CEO. Mary Lee’s services include: Workshops, Meeting
Facilitation, Coaching, Webinars, Speaking and Management
Consulting. Areas of Specialty: Life, Organization and Career
Transition / Strategic Direction / Leadership / Time Management /
Divorce / Productivity / Relationship Shift / Purpose. Her book
"Starting Over - 25 Rules for When You've Bottomed Out" is
available in bookstores and at with online book sellers. Sign up
for Mary Lee’s Free Coaching e-newsletter
A Vision Board reflects vivid imagery to remind you every day of
where you are going. Not sure where that is? Read along.
You can’t get to a destination if you don’t know where that is. You
create your Vision Board to reflect where you see yourself or your
business when you’ve reached your ultimate goal. This will add
clarity to your calling and allow you to visit a crisp image of where
you are headed every day – even if right now that image looks
more like an out of focus blur.
Supplies You Will Need to Create Your Vision Board
1. Poster or foam board.
2. Markers
3. Yes! Glue or Rubber Cement. Not Elmer’s glue as it will ripple
your images.
4. A stack of magazines of varying types. Collect them from friends
or doctor’s offices. Make sure they are different or you will be
limited. Use magazines on business, fashion, women’s issues,
sports, nature, cooking, fitness, travel, etc. You may choose to use
photographs or other art textures.
How to Create Your Vision Board
1. Prepare yourself to be open. Sit quietly in a warm and
comfortable place that inspires you before beginning to create your
Vision Board. Put on inspirational or calming music. Light a candle
or open a window for the fresh sounds and smells of nature. Allow
your stressors, your worries, your outside influences and your ego
to take a back seat for a little while. Relax completely and let your
mind go blank. Don’t concentrate on the end results. Concentrate
on nothing – just being.
2. Have tools of inspiration in front of you. These include but are
not limited to a desk accessory that inspires you, a photograph,
your journal or the results of exercises you may have done on my
Web site that have helped you define your VALUES, your
STRENGTHS, your SUCCESS SKETCH, your PURPOSE.
3. Spread out magazines of all types. Go through them collecting
images and words that evoke wonder and joy as well as those that
reflect the state of fulfillment you want to achieve. You may not
entirely know what your “Vision” is. That is ok. Your Board may be
an “Open and Accepting” Vision Board. It is important to gather
images that evoke a positive emotion – even if the image is not
reflective of anything in particular. What takes your breath away?
What makes you smile? What makes you feel love? Make a big
pile. Have a lot of fun!
4. Begin to select the images and words that truly speak to
where you want to be and place them on the blank board.
Eliminate images that are not quite right. You will get a sense of
how you want to design your board when you begin to create. You
may make concentric rings – each one reflecting a certain part of
your vision. Or you may have corners dedicated to certain themes.
Be free!
5. Permanently affix images and words to the board. Glue down
the images. Write powerful words on the board that describe your
vision: “Sales Genius,” “Social Media Maven,” “Six Digit Business.”
You may want to put a photograph of yourself on the board.
6. Place your vision board where you will see it every day – and
often times each day. Celebrate its message.
A Vision Journal
You may find that you will go through many transitions in your life.
Some of my clients keep their vision images in a journal so that
the vision ebbs and flows with their changing situation. For this all
you will need is a hard bound journal to replace the foam board
above. Create!
This is a great activity to do with some friends on a cold winter
afternoon or evening. See yourself where you want to be – not the
impediments that are before you today. Reflect on that image every
day. Start now and watch what happens!
Sign up for Mary Lee’s Free Coaching e-newsletter.
Get Mary Lee’s free tip sheets on Discovery / Action Journal,
Strengths – Free Tools to Help You Define Your Strengths and
How to Turn Thought Into Habit for Your Team at Articles and Tip
Sheets.
Mary Lee Gannon is the president of StartingOverNow.com –
Creating Productivity Solutions for People and Organizations.
Mary Lee is a graduate of The Duquesne University Professional
Coaching Program and an alumnus of the 2010 Harvard Medical
School and McLean Hospital Coaching in Medicine & Leadership
Conference. Her personal turnaround came as a stay-at-home
mother, with four children under seven-years-old, who endured a
divorce that took she and the children from the country club life to
public assistance from where within a short time she worked to the
level of CEO. Mary Lee’s services include: Workshops, Meeting
Facilitation, Coaching, Webinars, Speaking and Management
Consulting. Areas of Specialty: Life, Organization and Career
Transition / Strategic Direction / Leadership / Time Management /
Divorce / Productivity / Relationship Shift / Purpose. Her book
"Starting Over - 25 Rules for When You've Bottomed Out" is
available in bookstores and at with online book sellers. Sign up
for Mary Lee’s Free Coaching e-newsletter
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* Starting all over
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* Looking for career
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