Now that you’ve started to think about and identify the things that you are passionate about, the things that make you feel great when you are doing them, what next?
The next step is to create a visual of your dream life. What do you want your life to be like if you could create it anyway you want it to be?
Would you be a famous actor or a rock star? A winning athlete? A chef at your own restaurant or a rich business owner? Would you travel, fish, be a public speaker or teacher, design homes and lovely rooms, be an artist? Would you be a New York Times bestselling author?
Would you drive a fancy car or be driven in a limo? Would you own a motorcycle or ride a bike? Maybe own a fleet of cars? Have a Porsche? Would you own a boat or have your own yacht?
Would you own a mansion or a cabin in the woods? A house on the beach or live on an island? Maybe you want to live in another country.
Use your imagination, visualize all the elements of your life that you can, write them down in the greatest detail that you see in your visualization.
Once that’s done, create a vision board using pictures or words or other images that reflect and represent the life that you have envisioned. Gather picture books and magazines or your colored pencils and markers and create a collage on a wall or board. You can glue it or staple it or pin it with a push pin.
According to Wikipedia, “A vision board, also called a dream boards, mind map or goal map, is typically a poster board on which people draw, paste or collage images that represent their desires, objectives, dreams and goals. The intent is that vision boards be reviewed regularly to maintain focus on the depicted goals.
Research of something called mirror-neurons showed that neurologically, our minds cannot tell the difference between things we see that are real or those that are imagined. One study found that people who imagined practicing a sport improved as much as people who actually practiced.
The mind processes information better in images and when we can create in our imagination what we want, the mind works subconsciously to create it. As your board evolves and becomes more focused, you will begin to recognize what is missing and imagine ways to fill the blanks and realize your vision.
Here are a few examples of vision boards to give you an idea of how to proceed.
