Seven years ago my coach Ed Escobar introduced me to using pictures for goal setting. I pasted pictures of my daughters, little gold angel stickers and paid tuition statements on an 8 1/2" x 11" paper and then had it laminated. I thought this was silly, but I carried it on my keychain for 8 weeks and then kept in in my briefcase for years. It is now on my desk.This January 09 is our last tuition payment for The Child. With that big goal being taken care of it is only fitting that I should put together another little board.
BUT WAIT! The world had better things in store for me than another little board. I had the fortune to attend a women's gathering this month, a dear little dinner with an after dinner speaker. "How nice," you're thinking. "nice dinner, night out with the girls." Oh, it was that -lovely and fine people and a good evening out and also my next step incubating.
Our speaker had come to share her process and outcome with her own vision board. She had attended a financial planning workshop- not the spread sheet kind, the what are your goals and dreams kind of workshop. Now instead of financial goals visioning, she felt compelled to put to paper, scissors, magazines and glue stick her longing for a loving sexual relationship. This apparent substitution of subjects makes makes perfect sense when you realize that money and sex are both second chakra energies. Carol was completely on topic energetically.
Carol's vision board was a 12" x18" poster board with pictures of nature and couples hugging and the phrase "Organic Sexuality" neatly cut and pasted in the middle of the poster board. She next said she gave up her unmade bed habit and placed her vision board on her pillow of her spread up covers every day. Coming home at night she put her board on her chair beside the bed. Carol told us that after 10 years of romance and sexuality being no part of her life, that she met a man with whom there was a spark. This spark turned into her intense loving erotic relationship she had envisioned. She put focus to her real dream and goal. Her focus was visual and verbal with pictures and phrases. She honored her work and placed it in a central part of her physical environment. It made sense to me. She put her thoughts out there and fruit falls when ready.
Two days after our talk about vision boards I am at morning meeting at our office. Our wonderful broker wants us to put down on paper pictures of what we want for our life. He is amazing. He is not worried by what is practical and ordinary. He wants us to determine what we really want and bring our board in for next Tuesday's meeting.
Wow! What was important to me? What did I want? How do I express it?
I made a list of the things that were important to me;personal life, church and community service, my home, creative life, and my vision for my real estate practice.
Next I tried to sketch out paper the proportion of space each of these categories took in my life and how they connected to each other.
In the 5 spaces I drew, I filled out my goals for each area as a list.
Next, I drew the 5 areas on the posterboard in the same shapes and relationships to each other.
Then I flipped through papers and magazines and all the paper flotsom and jetsom in my life to fill out pictures and phrases to express my vision for each category. In my next entries, I will tell about each category and show a detail excerpt photo of my vision for myself.
