Sunday 25 September 2011

Stuck in Life? Make a Vision Board

Have you ever sat down and thought that you need to make changes in your life? Many times when you feel this way the myriad of possibilities that pop into your mind can be overwhelming. You may feel that there are too many things to change and therefore end up ignoring the urge to re-organize and improve your life because it just seems to require too much effort.

We all get into ruts of complacency, or of just being comfortable and resisting change, even if we are unfulfilled and have a secret yearning for something more, something different. You can re-organize your life with a vision board. The next time you have those thoughts of needing change, simply pick one of your goals and create a vision board to help you see how you can accomplish that change in your life.

If your mind gets filled with too many grand ideas you can sabotage yourself. Take the time to think things through and decide what is the most important change you wish to make in your life. For example, if you want a new career, more money and a bigger home you need to figure out which one is the furthest out of reach and which is the easiest to accomplish. If a new career will provide you with more money with which you can get a bigger home, you know that the first step you need to take is choosing a new career. This may then lead you to learning that you need to further your education in order to achieve your goal. In your mind or on paper or on a vision board you can plot out the steps from largest to smallest, then fill in what you need to do to achieve each step.

Your vision board is a personal thing, and you can use it to motivate and inspire, to help you see the progress you're making and to finally lead you to the culmination of your dreams and re-organized life. There is no wrong or right way to make a vision board, the only requirement is that it works for you. You can make your board your favorite color; include motivational and inspirational quotes, a graph or steps to show your progress and anything else you feel is part of your metamorphosis.

Rather than sitting there thinking so hard about all the things you want to do, you can take steps to make it happen. Stress and anxiety hold us back from making changes, and keep us stuck in a comfortable place with no challenge and no upheaval. But often, in order to achieve your goals and truly find happiness in your life you need to make changes and deal with some upheaval. Your vision board will help you work through the anxiety and break each step down into do-able tasks that build up to the large goal!

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