I've been thinking about vision boards a lot lately. In a nutshell, the definition of a vision board is a picture you create of the things you want in your life. Back about 15 years ago, I was really unhappy with where my life was. I felt I had given up a lot of control over what was happening and hadn't really engaged in making my life what I wanted it to be. So I created my first "vision board." In this format, my vision board took the form of writing down the things I wanted to be different in my life. In doing some cleaning recently, I came across the notebook that housed that information. It is amazing to me how much of what I put into those pages is now true about my life.
The potential for good fortune lies within us, but only if we engage in the opportunity. If we simply wait for things to go our way, we might notice that while some positive things happen, they are not lasting. They tend to pass along without making a huge impact on our lives. Creating our luck, however, takes an entirely different approach, whereby we look at every situation as something that is lucky—an opportunity to do something that allows us to better our lives, rather than constantly feeling stuck in the same place, doing the same things, but expecting different results. (A definition of insanity, for sure!)
Engaging in the opportunity means being brave enough to change things and move ourselves out of the stagnancy of the places where we feel stuck. Stagnancy can be weighty - dragging down what is good in life to sit at the level of that general stagnation. Opening up to the freedom of imaging changes is what a vision board is all about. Then using that freedom to affirm the change is what makes it possible.
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