Vison boards are a great tool for staying connected to all the goals, plans, aspirations and dreams you have. My first encounter with vision boarding came during the scrapbook era. Before we all learned to load our photographs into Shutterfly, girlfriends would get together and have scrapbooking parties. Tables covered with 12X12 paper, binders, glue sticks, die cutters, stamps and wine glasses were the stuff that Friday nights were made of. A natural progression was to take the focus off the children and family vacations and start to cut out magazines to create our own vision boards.
I was never very good at arts and crafts, and still can’t cut a straight line with scissors! I found a site to help me create a vision board on the computer. My first choice was to use Picmonkey but not having flash up to date on my computer forced me to research other options...enter, collage.com.
With collage.com I spent less time and had better results. Simply upload photos into your project, choose a shape, and use the edit tool (if you want). The collage below took me about 40 minutes. Most of that time spent finding photos online, on my phone and playing with the shuffle feature on collage.com.
Floating balloons- remind me to keep things light and fun
Picture of the sky- reminder to keep open space on my calendar, so I can say YES when an opportunity presents itself.
Milestones logo- spend time making this blog useful for the reader
Microphone- focus on public speaking opportunities
She is Quick: This is a picture of an iPad case. I love that it simply sums up who I strive to be each day.
Quick: I often get bogged down in details, therefore I don’t want to be prone to non-decisiveness.
Loving the details (this is my super power and kryptonite)
Curious- always willing to learn something new (hello...collage.com)
Playful-for me this is spontaneity.
Strong- continue to use my body to stay healthy.
Meditation- a driving focus this year is to live lushly. Abundant, rich, pleasurable, comfortable having plenty of time and enjoying what brings me great sensory pleasures= living lush. (i.e. yoga classes, coffee, tea, exercise, quiet time, and "me time" field trips.)
Less but better- read more about my motto
Decide. commit. succeed. Again, I am a researcher. Always looking for the best most effective option, which can lead to procrastination and/or analysis paralysis. Decide. Commit. Succeed.
Stay on track.
Create a board
Feel free to share a board that you create, vision boarding tips, or helpful software programs. What works best for you? What do you love most about your board?
Make it matter!