If you can vision it you can achieve it!

To help move forward on my new goals this year I decided to make a vision board. Now I have watched these things work for many people and they are the new in thing to do to help you stay motive. It plays on the idea that in order to achieve something you really need to see it, remember the fat pictures we use to put on the front of the refrigerator to remind of us our diet. It is sort of like that but on a much grander scale.

There are lots of websites dedicated to vision boards and a whole new industry of professionals to help you along the way if you so choose. One of my favorite friends, Bonnie Kelly, has one of these businesses. She is young, very pretty and very motivated. For someone in her twenties she is already a very successful realtor, motivational speaker, business owner and spinner instructor. I’m not sure that there is anyone else in the world as hard working and motivated as she.

Hoping to find some of that motivation I went searching. After looking at a lot of websites and studying the subject I embarked on the journey. The basic idea is to gather lots of pictures and phrases out of magazines about what you want to achieve and make a big collage. Once that is completed you need to plan out small goals to achieve the larger goals and track them.
 

Rather than getting a board that would have to stay at home I decided to do something smaller that would be more portable. So I opened up a word document and set to work creating something with clip art. First I added some pictures about the things I wanted to improve on and then a few more. It was the usual diet, exercise and getting my finances in order. Then it was time to add some motivational sayings. I gave this a lot of thought as I was looking for something general but specific. I added one and then another. In the end I settled on just one that could be my everyday mantra and put it nice and big at the top. To track those small goals leading to the bigger goals I am using small post-it notes. I am all for simple, easy and fast. Plus they are easy to change and inexpensive to reproduce if your goals change.

I now have vision boards everywhere because with a word document you are only a click and a printer away. There are small ones, big ones, ones at work, ones at home. You can even make them small enough to carry in your wallet or purse.

Out of this process came this blog. I thought to really vision what I wanted to achieve this year I needed to share those small positively healthy choices with as many people as possible. What is your vision for the coming year and how can you succeed in making it one filled with positively healthy choices everyday?