Why you might want to consider making a vision board for 2021!

A vision board is essentially a physical place where you put images or words that represent your desires so that you can use it as motivation to work toward or manifest them. This could be a big bristol board that you tape or glue pictures or draw words onto or you can do it in your journal or pin pictures to a cork board or paint your desires directly on to your wall ha ha😜 The point is that these visuals are somewhere that you are going to be seeing them.

Ok, that’s great, sounds a little elementary…..might be a fun craft night…..but what’s the point? Do they actually work?

Have you ever heard the phrase “what you focus on expands” or grows? Let’s look more closely at that (bear with me) - think about a time when you got hurt, like it really hurt - maybe you fell and scraped your knee. It was all dirty and blood was running down your leg and it hurt so much, you cried. Then your Mom or Dad or caregiver runs over to give comfort and they take you inside to clean you up. As they are cleaning the little rocks out of your cut, it hurts even more - you panic and cry more but then they give you something else to focus on. Maybe it’s your favourite tv show or a popsicle or a book to look at and as your attention and focus shift from the painful scrape on your knee to something else, you forget that you are being patched up and it doesn’t really hurt that much anymore because it is no longer where your focus is.

Well, this is my backward way of explaining the idea behind a vision board ha ha. But seriously, having your desires located in a place where you see them often redirects your focus to them. This creates small moments of visualization, even without your awareness that this is what you are doing, which, over time, result in expansion or manifestation of these desires.

This is referred to as the law of attraction.

When getting started on creating a vision board, you must take some time out to think about what it is that you really want in your life and for your future or the future of your family. The majority of us rarely take time out to do this simple (not so simple) task but it is so important. Being clear on what you want in your life and for your future brings about feelings of happiness, fulfillment and hope. This is why while crafting a vision board it is important to include pictures or words on it that focus on how you want to FEEL - maybe you want to get a new house, so you put a picture of your dream house on there and then you can put some key words around that house that describe the way you envision feeling once you have obtained it.

Why is this important? Because feelings create energy and calling in what you desire is all about the energy babe.

But do they work?

Here’s my experience - I made a vision board at the end of 2018/beginning of 2019 because I wanted to find out for myself if they do actually work and I really had nothing to lose at that point. We were in a transitional stage and it was time to make some big decisions and some big moves. So, I spent a week, maybe a little longer thinking about what I truly wanted for our future. Though pretty open minded, my hubby can be a little resistant to the “woo woo” stuff, but with a little persuasion, I got him on board, with the hopes that 2 vision boards are better than one!

We Googled some pictures that reflected what we were wanting to receive and printed them out. We bought 2 big sheets of bristol board and arranged the pictures just so (this part was super fun for me). Then we taped them all on and wrote some words around the pictures and bam - just like that we had created our boards. Now what?

I didn’t really want any of our friends or family who might visit us to see our boards. I felt a little silly about them, so we kept them in our bedroom, taped up to our closet doors. I suppose during that time, we were looking at our boards a lot. Some of the things that we had put on them began to materialize - starting with a new home and over the next two years (now Dec 2020), pretty near the entire board has been manifested and to be honest, while sitting inside my closet in our new home, but still being seen frequently.

My short answer is YES!

It is absolutely astounding to me what we have had come to fruition in 2 short years and I’m just getting started baby!!

Check out the video tour of my vision board created for 2019 below 👇

Do I think that this happened just because I put some pictures on a board and hung it on the wall? No, I also started every morning with a gratitude list and gave thanks for everything that came our way. I also visualized what I wanted to have/happen and worked hard. I listened to direction from the Universe/God/Spirit and allowed myself to be guided. I let go of resistance. I exhaled fear and I trusted the path that laid down before of me and i can assure you that path was not linear and sometimes I took a little nap off to the side but I continued to come back to it and was rewarded with my dreams coming true as a result. But you know what’s the most interesting part of this? YOU can do it too!! I’m not “chosen” or “special” - I’m just open to it and you can be too!!

I’ve begun the process of starting a new vision board for 2021 - if there has ever been a time to need one of these, it’s now! Are you going to join me in manifesting your desires and building a life that you love? We start by setting the intention, follow it up with some visualization and - BAM - your desires become reality….just like that! Don’t forget to express your gratitude on the other side and the sky’s the limit, you can have anything you desire and you are worthy of it all!!