What does this mean? How do I “see clearly now”?
I think and see in terms of written goals.
I help people create a wellness vision using words to describe what they will be doing. How they will be feeling and what life and themselves will look like a few years down the road. They paint a picture for me with words.
My daughter is a vision board girl. She is visual and very creative. She finds pictures or even draws them herself and uses a few words to bring the vision she has of herself to life on a poster board. She displays this board in a prominent place where she can look at it often.
Her most recent vision board included graduating from High school and college, getting married and increasing her spirituality.
Like my daughter, there are all types of businesses and people who use a vision board. This helps everyone involved to know the direction they are going.
Recently, this idea of a vision board has resurfaced in my life. So, I decided that I would create a vision for board for me. I also decided to create one for my husband and me—vision boards all around!
My vision board includes things like:
- Being healthy in every way.
- Growing my business.
- Continuing to be a strong partner in my marriage.
- continuing to create a close family as my daughters get older and add people to our family.
The vision board for my husband and me includes remodeling the bathroom (don’t laugh! It is coming along but is still not done), going to New York in 2020, going to see Craters of the Moon, getting our daughters through college debt free, and buying a gently used, awesome Tahoe with all of the bells and whistles I want.
I have learned that the vision board can have short and long-term ideas. It doesn’t really help to put an exact date for accomplishing the goals. It is better to keep things flexible. For example, we were all set to go to New York this summer. But as you know travel, and many other things, have been affected by the pandemic. So that trip has been put on hold—not cancelled. We have moved that to 2021!
I certainly didn’t think we would remodel our bathroom this spring. But look, here we are. The tile is done in the shower, the floor is down, and the light fixtures are up. My husband is almost done with the cabinet and vanity. (Yes! Soon I will have my “safe room” back. There are not enough words to contain my excitement!)
And because our trip to New York was postponed. We decided to go and see the Craters of the Moon this month. (Things are happening!)
Some vision board ideas will be completed quickly and others take some time (like getting my girls through college- my youngest is 7 years old. I am giving her a little more time to get through college.)
Now with a lot of uncertainty in our lives it may be a great time to look to the future, dream big, and decide what you would like to have happen.
I keep my sticky note vision board (no pictures, just words on sticky notes) in my journal. Most nights I take a few minutes and look it over. It helps me remember what I’m aiming for. Also, when I complete an idea, it reminds me that all things are possible. (And I do a little happy dance in my mind.)
The vision board my daughter created in high school, most of those ideas have been achieved. Some will continue on to her new vision board. This includes having a family and a boat (future grandma, yes me, is excited to get out on the water and to have grandbabies 😉). And her idea of having a family that will be together forever continues on from her first vision board.
What things do you want on your vision board? If you have already been using a vision board, what kind of success are you seeing? Drop me a note and let’s talk about it.