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Post by EelKat on May 11, 2011 22:26:24 GMT -5
A Vision Board is a tool, right? Well, I call them a tool so that makes them a tool to me, so I'm posting this here.
Okay, so who has a Vision Board? What do you use it for? How do you use it?
In case there is some one who doesn't know about vision boards:
A vision board is like a scrapbook of your hopes and dreams and inner most desires put onto a board and hung on the wall were you can see it every day.
You use a poster board or cork-board or anything really to make a collage of images, pictures, drawings, photos, and affirmations of your dreams and desires.
Vision boards are a great way to make you feel positive about your hopes and goals and dreams and they use the law of attraction and the power of positive thinking and creative visualization or creative imaging to help you make your dreams a reality.
They act on the principle that if you keep your goals clearly defined and always on your mind and in your line of sight, than you will program your subconscious mind into finding ways to bring to pass every thing you put on your vision board.
They are also called dream boards, treasure maps, or vision maps.
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Post by EelKat on May 11, 2011 22:31:38 GMT -5
By now every one knows on my plan to buy an RV and become a Full-Timer just me and my 14 cats in a 31 foot motor home. Okay. So I just started a vision board and the first thing I put on it was a picture of an RV. I'm planning to turn the back-bedroom (of the RV) into an office studio. I mean it's just me and the cats so I don't need a cab over bed, a sofa bed, and a queen bed! Totally gutting out the back bedroom and using it for my art/writing/sewing room. I plan to start GeoCaching and writing articles about each place I GeoCache at and also take photos to sell on Zazzle too. Long run, I'm actually hoping to write a book about "life on the road". My goal is to not only live in an RV full-time, but make a living at it as a travel writer and travel photographer as well. Last week I got out this book on Creative Visualization and it mentioned Vision Boards, and I thought: "WOW I got make one of these for my RV planning!" So I got a cork board and pinned a Winnebago brochure to it, opened to the page of the RV I want. So far that's all I've got on my board. LOL! But I bought a bunch of RV books and got them all around the board too. Keeps my goal right in front of me. Every time I mention GeoCaching every one looks at me and goes "What's that?" When I get my RV first thing I'm going to do is get a Travel Bug Tag and register it on Geocaching.com as a Travel Bug so people can "find" it. (I'm EelKat over there too if you have an account with them.) I like wet lands so I'm planning to follow rivers and swamps across the country and hopefully get all sorts of bird, flower, and waterfall pics too. I've already started mapping my rought. I'm going to start at Arcadia National Park in Maine and end up at Crater Lake Park in Oregon. Hoping to go to Alaska too, but not sure if I'll be able to with the cats seeing how you got to drive through Canada. I want to see all 50 states - Hawaii will be a challenge LOL! I also plan to go from fair to fair festival to festival (esp Ren Faires, SCA, LARPing, CosPlay cons, comic cons and the like) setting up a booth at those. I'm a Traveler and yet I don't travel, but all I ever seem to want to do is travel - it's almost an obsession. I've decided to embrace my gypsy blood and run with it. Anyways, so I've just started building a Vision Board to help me map out my goals. Has an one else ever done anything like this? (Used a Vision Board to make their dreams come true.)
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Post by EelKat on May 14, 2011 0:14:14 GMT -5
Working on my vision board some more today. I bought some colored post-it notes and silver metallic glittery tacks and set out to writing affirmations and power of positive thinking quotes and sticking them all over my cork board (which is 3 feet tall by 5 feet wide) and now it sits in front of my computer where I can see it every day. Plus thinking about my RV goals - I have MANY goals for this RV. A few days away from stuff - that is the goal I am moving towards as a lifetime goal; I'm buying an RV and me and my 14 cats are going to live in it and be free of the confines of "stuff" seeing how you can't fit much "stuff" in an RV! I used to want to get a house back up, but I've lived outside enough years now that I've become so connected with "nature" that I can't stand the thought of going back into a house now. So I'm turning my whole yard into a "meditation retreat" garden - planting flowers every where. It'll be my "home base" for while I'm living in the RV, my place to come home to whenever I need to go on a retreat. ... I have found that silently sitting in one spot outside near water for 4 or 5 or more hours and doing nothing and saying nothing, just listening to the water and the birds does wonders for lifting my spirits.
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