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A vision board is a way of declaring or showing the universe your intention for a more delicious life by gaining clarity on your goals, dreams and aspirations. A vision board is your personal blue print, a visual road map for a success. Created as a collage of positive, uplifting and inspiring pictures and words it helps to identify what you desire to own your delicious life.  Tapping into your creative brain and accessing subliminal and subconscious desires for a more balanced or abundant life/style it brings these goals and dreams to the conscious or current mindful awareness.

The concept of being mindful and focusing one’s attention to better outcomes and solutions has gained recent popularity due to The Secret and the talk of the Law of Attraction. These concepts demonstrated various people who practiced mindfulness and an abundance mentality by using positive actions and affirmations to change their current circumstances for the better.

Anyone can benefit from a vision board and they can made in many different ways. By not fully controlling the pictures or words you cut out will allow you subconscious brain to choose ones that align to your visions and goals. It is like taking the logic away and being totally creative.

To create change, action is essential—otherwise, your results will remain the same. When life throws challenges your way, clarity and goals guide your next steps. Without a clear vision, it’s like traveling to a new place without directions. A personal blueprint helps you spot opportunities around you.

An example of this is when someone is looking for a better job. You know you would like to change your job, however unless you have worked out or gained clarity on what you are looking for how will you know when you find it? Maybe you require different qualifications, so on your vision board you place a photo/picture of that new profession. Suddenly you notice in the local newspaper that a course is being offered that will help you achieve the new job. Prior to creating a vision board your consciousness awareness would not have seen that advertisement. That is the art of mindfulness and the visual reminder on your vision board helps you to stay focused.

Business owners start their businesses with a crystal and champagne mindset and enthusiasm to match. They are passionate about an idea, concept or product and a process is put in place to bring that passion to life. For many people “words” create a picture in their mind, that helps them to visualise what that business looks like as the big picture. This is a right-brain hemisphere activity. An example of this is a car yard, the concept is to sell cars and the visual going with that idea is easily seen in the minds eye.

One of the very basic administrative plans for success in business is a business plan.  A business plan is a document that summarizes the operational and financial objectives of a business, usually a new one, and contains the detailed plans and budgets showing how the objectives are to be realized. It is the practical road map to the success of your business. These plans are often looked at every five years, or when a new direction is being looked at. This attention to detail is a left-brain hemisphere activity.

Not every business owner connects to a written document, although the words are expressing their business direction, they are too detailed to ‘see’ a picture that it represents.

Enter the UBER of business plans, the Vision Board for Business Success.

As with any business tools and success planning it is a good practice to review your progress on an annual basis, reassess any accomplishments during the year and upgrade new growth potential and direction. Vision Boards are lots of fun and can assist business owners to gain clarity and to align their vision, passion and purpose to gain further business success. They help to create new neural pathways for success, you will be amazed at the changes that occur.

Many famous people have used Vision Boards to find achieve success including: –

Ellen DeGeneres used a vision board about her dreams of being on the cover of Oprah’s magazine. For nearly every issue Oprah had been the cover girl, and then Ellen got her dream.

Spanx Creator Sara Blakely talks about using visualization to be ‘self-employed, invent a product that she could sell to a lot of people, and to create a business that would be able to fund itself.’ Her dreams became reality.

Katy Perry made a vision board when she was nine years old using a photo of the young Latin pop singer holding her golden statuette, fifteen years later, Perry was nominated for her first Grammy Award.

Beyonce has a picture of an Academy award right near her treadmill that she looks at daily so she can keep her goals literally right in front of her. The movie Dream Girls that she starred in was nominated for an Academy award.

Does creating a vision board guarantee that all aspirations depicted will materialise? Not necessarily. However, clearly identifying your goals is an essential first step in pursuing them. Developing self-awareness regarding your objectives enables you to recognise potential opportunities as they arise. Vision boards serve as a tool to maintain focus on your ambitions, integrating your goals into your conscious thought process. Ultimately, action remains the primary driver of success; without taking deliberate steps, progress cannot be achieved.