A Vision
Board (also called a Dream Board, Treasure Map or a Visual Map or
Creativity Collage) is typically a poster board on which you paste or
collage images that you’ve cut out from various magazines.
The
idea behind this is that when you surround yourself with images of who
you want to become, what you want to have, where you want to live, or
where you want to vacation, your life changes to match those images and
those desires.
I
personally have several Vision Boards and I will share some of them along with personal manifesting stories with you at the workshop.
If you are ready to take control of your future and create the vision to manifest the Body of your dreams, then I will see you at "My Fit Body" Vision Board Workshop!
Here supplies you’ll need to bring with you for creating a vision board:
- Poster board. (Target sells a really nice matte finish board. I highly recommend it.)
- I have tons of Fitness magazines to share with you. You can bring personal pictures and more magazines on different topics. (You can get them at libraries, hair
salons, dentist offices, the YMCA.) Make sure you find lots of different
types. Good choices are: Oprah, Real Simple, Natural Home, Yoga
Journal, Dwell, Ode, Parenting, Money, Health, and an assortment of
nature magazines.
- Glue.
Not Elmers. (It makes the pages ripple.) Yes! Glue. or Rubber cement
is a good choice. Glue sticks will be second choice because they don’t
last.
- Scissors.
Here some SUCCESS STORIES of how the “Vision Boards” helps people to manifest their desires.
Although
not all of this people specifically used vision boards to get what they
wanted, but the applications that they used were similar in function.
# 1
John Assaraf’s Vision Board.
(Watch the video above with John Assaraf)
Successful entrepreneur and author, John Assaraf, brought the age-old
concept of a vision board to the mainstream public by relating his story
of it in the motivational documentary, The Secret. In May of 2000, John
was working in his home office inside his beautiful new home in
Southern California when his five-year old son came in and asked him
what were in the dusty boxes in the corner of his home office. John told
him that it contained his vision boards. His son didn’t understand what
they were, so John opened one of the boxes to show him. When John
pulled out the second board from the box, he began to cry. On it was a
picture of a 7000 square foot house on top of six acres of spectacular
land that he had seen and cut out from Dream Homes magazine in 1995. It
was the exact house that he had just purchased several weeks prior—A
sure testament to the Law of Attraction at work.
# 2 Jim Carrey’s Check.
As a struggling young comedian trying to make it in the make or break
city of Hollywood, Jim Carrey was just about ready to give up his dream
of becoming a professional actor and comedian. He had just performed at
an open mic session at one of the nightclubs in Los Angeles and had been
booed off the stage by his audience. He sat by himself at the top of
Mulholand Drive and looked out at the city below him—the city that held
his future success or failure. He then pulled out his check book and
wrote himself a check for $10 million dollars and made a note on it:
“for acting services rendered.” He then carried that check with him in
his wallet everywhere he went from that day forward. By 1995, after the
success of his blockbuster movies: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Dumb and
Dumber, and The Mask, his contract price had risen to the price of $20
million dollars.
# 3 During one of Oprah’s shows on The Secret,
guest Lisa Nichols showed her Vision Board. In it were the words ‘Lisa
Reveals All On Oprah’. She definitely manifested that one!
# 4 Dixie’s pictures.
Dixie
Schneider wanted to speak on cruise ships. She’s a bit zany, so she
used a different variation of Treasure Maps. She got cruise ship
brochures from a travel agency, cut out the photos and put them all over
her house.
Open
the refrigerator door and there would be a photo of a cruise ship. Open
the medicine cabinet and there would be a cruise ship. Lift the toilet
seat and there would be a cruise ship. Her engineer husband gave her a
lot of grief, as you might imagine.
Well,
Dixie has spoken on cruise ships all over the world. The first
opportunity came by sheer serendipity. A former speech instructor of
hers ran into her at the grocery store. He said, “I hear you are doing
motivational speaking now. I was scheduled to speak on an upcoming
cruise, but my mother is ill and I can’t do it. Could you take my
place?”
COULD she?!
# 5 Kathy’s Book.
“I
think I was initially a little self-conscious about my dreams. They
seemed a bit lofty and impossible for someone like me. Who was I to
think I could do and have these things? I wasn’t quite ready to have
them out in the open for comments from my husband and anyone who came
into my house.
So
I used a photo book and kept it to myself at first. I included photos
of myself with headlines cut from magazines- ‘Successful Speaker’,
‘Successfully Published Author’. This was all before I ever started my
writing and right as I had just presented my very first free seminar. I
included photos of material things I wanted, like a massage table (some
day I want regular massages at home!), a hot tub, and a sauna (I come
from a long line of Finns who had these in their homes). I included
photos of women who looked confident and elegant and included the
headlines: ‘Confidence’, ‘Energy’, ‘Simply Elegant’. I had a photo of a
beautiful garden and the headline: “A Life-Long Garden”, “Flowers All
Year Long”.
I now proudly hang Treasure Maps around my house, mostly in my home office where I spend much of my time.”