Most people never pause long enough to ask themselves what they want. They just let life happen to them. I think this is because most people don’t believe they can really create their own happiness, or their own wealth, or their own anything! ~ Christine Kane
This morning, I landed on Christine Kane's web page and downloaded her Complete Guide to Vision Boards
It is an interesting idea. Back in college, our ceramics teacher had us do vision board kinds of projects so we would have ideas for what we wanted to create in class. Unfortunately, this is the sort of thing that makes my neat-freak tic...mismatch images, imperfect cuts, clutter. Oiy. Still...maybe it is time to pull out the scissors and paste and try out a vision board for my life.
The power behind the project is that it focuses on the WHAT, without pushing the HOW. Taking the time to draw it out – vision board it – makes the WHAT indelible in the mind. The theory continues.
When you surround yourself with images of who you want to become, what you want to have, where you want to live or vacation, your life changes to match those images and those desires. Your attention is that powerful.
I figured that if they didn’t work, the worst thing that could happen would be me feeling stupid. So be it. But if they did work, the best thing that could happen is me feeling happier. It felt like a pretty good risk to take.
I definitely feel like one of the cynics that Christine mentions in the intro. It can't be so simple, or everyone would be doing it. But everyone isn't doing it, and a lot of them are pretty unhappy in life.
It can't hurt...it will cost me a couple of bucks for poster board and some time going through magazines that I'm not going to keep anyway (of snagged from freecycle). So...okay...
The kids and I are going out this afternoon, and there's a Dollar Store nearby. I guess we'll make a side trip. Here's hoping!
