Creating a vision board is a wonderful way to bring your goals and dreams to life.  Whether you make yours in quiet reflection on your own or with a group of friends over a glass of wine, now is the time to add the extra dimension and focus to attracting what you want.

1.  Decide when you’ll create your vision board and, if you’re doing it with friends, send out the invites, with a list of what they’ll need to bring (see below).
2.  Set the mood with music, candles and fragrances that you love.  Ideally, you’ll be in a room with plenty of natural light, or if you’re creating at night, with the right ambience for your creative juices to flow.

3.  Step one is to focus on what you want.  Allow thoughts of your ideal life, what you want to do, have and be flow through your mind and when you’re ready, flip through magazines, brochures, cataologues and the internet selecting images that look and feel right for you.  Tear these images out, ready to be carefully cut out later. 

4.  Once you have collected all the images that resonate with you, reflect on and create some affirmations, poems or meaningful words that you’ll be able to say to yourself whilst enjoying looking at your vision board each day for example;  ”I love being in a relationship with a partner who adores me”  “I enjoy all the success and rewards that my new job brings”  “I relish the time I have to create balance in my life” “I delight in my healthy and happy body”.  Using coloured paper, write or type these out, or cut out words from magazines to add to your collage.

5.  Once you have your words and pictures together, cut them out and arrange them on your canvas / cardboard / cork board so that they are compelling for you.  Adding additional touches such as ribbons, paint, tickets etc can also be a special part of the finishing touches.

6.  Hang your vision board somewhere where you will see it every day and spend time focussing on it with intent and most importantly, enjoying all the positive good feelings that you experience when visualising your dream life. 

Most importantly, Enjoy!

What You’ll Need to Create Your Vision Board

You’ll need the following supplies to hand when you’re creating your vision board. 

A Canvas or Cork Board
Magazines / Catalogues / Travel Brochures (wherever pictures of what you want appear!)
Scissors
Glue
Paint
Paintbrushes
Coloured Paper
Music to set the creative mood!

Enjoy

What’s Coming Up?

We’ve got some fabulous certification courses, workshops and weekend retreats coming up and they all include a Vision Board Creation Workshop!  Our 2010 calendar is now available; we’ll update you each month with what’s in store, otherwise, email lara@somersault-consulting.com to obtain a copy of dates for your diary.

Design Your Fabulous Love Life Weekend Retreat  12th - 14th February

NLP Certification Program 7th - 13th March (We’re introducing a new Trainer so you get 3 fabulous ABNLP qualified Trainers!)

Design Your Fabulous Future Weekend Retreat 19th - 21st March

Visit www.designyourfabulousfuture.com for more dates and details or email lara@somersault-consulting.com to reserve your place

Remember, we also offer one to one coaching and overnight retreat stays.

Blue Trees and Global Meltdown ! Whatever you do while reading this blog, I want you to promise yourself that at no time will you think of a blue tree… No, I said whatever you do, don’t think of a blue tree – and isn’t it strange how you can sit minding your own business reading this blog, totally oblivious of the tongue in your mouth until someone comes along and mentions it… Oh did I, are you? sorry, I was just twittering along on the keyboard, not consciously thinking of the effect my musings would have on your thoughts and ultimately your behaviour. You see, the thing with the unconscious mind is it can’t process a negative, so if I …. Well you get my gist.. blue trees and all that. Because the unconscious mind can’t process a negative it has to think of the negative before it can focus on the not thinking of it.. so, if you are told not to focus on a blue tree, the unconscious mind, however fleetingly, has to think of a blue tree before it can think of not thinking of a blue tree. And so it is with our focus … We get exactly what we focus on. We attract exactly what we are focusing on. How many times have you driven out of the from the car showroom in that special limited edition car, certain that this time, in this colour, with this spec, no one else can possibly have one like yours… only to see an identical model at the traffic lights around the corner? Or how many times have you been to that huge concert venue or sports stadium only to bump in to someone from across the street or from the office? The law of attraction dictates that the universe will draw us to exactly what we are focused on. There have always been hundreds of those cars driving around on your journey to work; you just haven’t been focusing on them. In all probability, thousands of people have pushed past you or crossed your path at the O2 before you notice your neighbour. The thing is, you don’t recognise anyone until you see your neighbour, so consciously you believe that the first people you have seen are your neighbours or the guy from the next office.

You see what I mean, we see, or we get, exactly what we are focusing on. 

You can’t help but notice that in recent weeks and months the media have been focusing almost entirely on the doom and gloom of global recession, and guess what, the more we talk about it, the more we read about it, the more likely it seems that we are hurtling ever quicker in to a global economic melt down!! Is there any surprise? In today’s 24 hour news society, the media is immensely powerful in creating and accelerating global outcomes. Simply by generating a sequence of headlines, discussions, debates and column inches then so we begin to create that outcome. The media Cause the circumstances that we choose to Effect our thinking.

Stop and think about it, in reality how different are you to the person you were 12 months ago? And yet how differently do you feel about your current or short-term future today, compared to 12 months ago? Significantly and sadly, when I’ve asked people that question in recent days the majority of replies I get are very much in the negative. Without realising why, the majority of people I talk to today are feeling much less confident about their future today than they were 12 months ago. Why? Because they are choosing to allow the media to place them at effect. The media is causing their effect!!

What if you were one of those savvy people who could choose to Create your own outcomes?

What if you were one of those people who could recognise just how many opportunities remaining in abundance all around you?

What if you chose to always be at cause for your life and your outcomes? While you and others are panicking today, the savvy are Creating their Fabulous Future. We all choose the behaviours we adopt. We all choose how to Internally Represent the external events going on around us and as a consequence we all choose whether to fold or play. We choose whether to Cause our Fabulous Future or to allow others such as media headlines to effect our lives and outcomes.

Just a thought….. Nigel