There is an ease, in getting excited within your thoughts about all the things you would buy if you had 50 million dollars.
Most people can let their imagination run wild when they think of the possibilities. This is the first piece of advice usually given to people who are about to do a vision board and I would swiftly tell you; this is the first mistake people make.
What is the point of imagining a lifestyle of the Rich and Famous or the Royals, when you in fact are not? Sorry to be a party pooper, but this is why they haven’t been working. You are imagining the lifestyle of someone who does have unlimited money.
We can get there, we all can over time, but there are steps to take. I’m heading there, maybe not 50 truckload millions, but the next level to where I currently am. Then, I am off to the next level lifestyle after that, and I will rinse and repeat. Are you coming along with me? First thing I would like you to do, is to make a couple of lists. You will be surprised at how they will start to take you on a path that is not what you originally thought your vision board should contain, or even look like... It will change the direction of things you imagined should be on your board.
Don’t question the process - just do it!
Strangely enough, I would suggest for you to start here. The old, tired advice, if you are familiar with vision boards this is the only step you usually take or have been taking so you know how to do this one.
. Write a list of five things you allow yourself to dream about achieving one day, with no restrictions! (See the activities section)
Next, write a list of five things you have full intention of achieving. (If you double up on a couple within the lists that’s ok) (See the activities section)
This time you are looking for the things that occupy your mind from time to time when daydreaming. You know the stuff, the stuff that keeps coming up in your mind of, who you want to be and who you believe you will be.
So now you need to be honest with yourself, this is not daydreaming here, this is the stuff that makes your heart beat. I have one that I still have not done yet and I still so want to and yet in writing this for you I just realized it was something that never made it to one of my boards so I know it will now.
And lastly a list of things you feel you should have achieved already. (See the activities section)
Now take a look at the three lists and put a ring around the five things you don’t want to leave this earth without having achieved.
How many of these things that will make it to your first vision board, will be balanced totally on what all of the modules will evoke in you?
So, keep your papers handy for reflection for future boards. It is always good to look back and see how far you have already travelled. In the introduction, I mentioned that keeping it real is the key here.
Let me explain some of the most effective tactics available and the things you would do well to be thinking about manifesting for yourself. Concentrating on things that are just out of your reach. I am talking about what would you buy if you were earning maybe almost twice what you are now?
I will give you an example, from my first attempts at vision boards. Adjust the examples to your own personal financial circumstances. Remembering for me, that there was hardly survival money within my little home, never mind extras. I knew that I wanted to have more outings, more going to restaurants, and more going to the movies or tribute-type concerts. All of which would be treats for me. I felt and believed it was important to my mental health to try and have more entertainment in my life. I certainly knew it was missing. I was also determined to take my children on a holiday they would remember. I had decided I would one day take them on an ocean liner cruise. Ok, ok I knew it was like a magical dream at the time. However, I still decided I would put it on the board. Because if I was earning around twice what I currently was I definitely would have started saving for a cruise. That is one way to determine if what you are about to put on your board is likely to come to you in a reasonable time frame. You place things on there you would not think twice about working towards if you were earning almost twice what you currently are. Things that would be in your reach if you were worth almost twice as much, right now today. That’s the very best place to start and the almost fail proof way to receive. If I was earning twice as much, then buying a tribute concert ticket once every tri-monthly would not be out of the question and saving for a memorable family holiday would also be a valid reality for me and my children. List here some of the things that you totally would be working towards if you were earning around about twice what you currently are today... Maybe an online course you have been busting to do or a new designer suit or an upgrade change in residence. What about if you’re church mice too, like we were, and you have young children as I did. Then maybe some sort of monthly movie subscription that you currently cannot afford.
For those of you who consider yourself already comfortable in life, then double that would be, maybe a brand new out-of-the-box vehicle or an international holiday or the whole backyard landscaped. Just slightly out of your reach. That’s where you need to be headed on your first vision board and every board after that.
Striving for just out of your reach is the Magic Key to getting it right. Not flying to just past the moon. I have been a church mouse, who seemed beyond repair, turned out to be a blessing for you. Well, my lessons did. Now you are able to receive, the “How NOT to make a Vision Board, strategy plan for guaranteed success”. It was because I was so poor that reaching for just above what I had – seemed like a miracle at the time. That’s how I discovered, that when you stay just above, (and not have your head in the clouds) – that’s where the unadulterated success to a vision board is. Some of the best discoveries in the world were discovered by what seemed like a mistake at the time. Those who have and are still currently teaching vision boards would have told me that my Vision Board was primitive in reaching by comparison, especially to what they are looking for in unrealistic visioning.
The reality is that I have found for certain that way does not work. Yes, there are examples in movies on the subject of metaphysics, of how people got large homes only a few years later, but they forget to tell you they were already well on their way at that stage. They were not starting from the very beginning and then only one short year later they owned a mansion, bigger than that of an average man's dreams. It's not very likely.
So, when you have been through a few successful vision boards, then you will be better positioned, to place a much more comfortable home, than you would of, on your first or second board. Starting to get the picture?
Next write the things you would be working towards if you were earning double what you are now. (See the activities section)
For these Activities, to get the best of it practise alongside on a notebook for writing these activity out.
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Write a list of five things you allow yourself to dream about achieving one day, with no restrictions! Here we go.
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