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Vision Boards and Action Plans

A new year and a 2015 diary present 365 blank pages to fill.

With every new year hopes and ambitions can be edited,  goals redrawn and new dreams imagined in a rose tinted landscape that signals the dawn of our future selves.

When the year was just a few days old I met with 6 lovely women from all walks of life to discuss our hopes and dreams for the coming year; to share our innermost thoughts – (and some rather fine pumpkin soup; thank you Caroline!) and to create our Vision Boards for 2015

Conversation and visualisation drew us together, and a mountain of magazines, some scissors and some glue, became the tools for constructing our new dreamscapes.

Swept up in the chaotic carnival of Christmas with its inevitable hangovers and  leftovers it’s easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. When #consumerism is trending I lose all perspective and my personal goals and ambitions disappear into vanishing point, so a day of cutting and sticking helped me to put my aspirations back into the fame.

Our conversations that day were a roller coaster of emotions as we flicked through magazines and searched our souls, looking for pictures of our alter egos.

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At times we were surprised, and shocked, by what we found on our vision boards.

On mine #largeandostentatiousflashydesignerjewellery was a significant trend, without so much as a wool fibre in sight.

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My vision boards are now on the wall in my new studio and will be my daily reminder of how important it is to aspire, look forward and imagine a better future.

However, I am not naturally a fantasist and over the last day or so I’ve been hearing the words of Professor Richard Wiseman, from his book 59 Seconds; Think a Little. Change a Lot.

“…fantasising about your perfect world may make you feel better but is unlikely to transform your dreams into reality.”

Change can only take place if you action it, and this is what Wiseman suggests.

  1. Write down what you want to achieve.
  2. Remind yourself, regularly, why you want to achieve it.
  3. Make a plan and break it down into small, manageable, steps.
  4. Tell people what you are doing.
  5. Reward each small achievement.

Visualisation is an excellent point of departure…..

….but then you must Take Action!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

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