Now that you have your fancy vision board complete, it’s time to start creating results. In my last article, how to create a vision board, I took you through the steps to masterfully putting one together.
So in an effort to see results, action is needed on your part. The thing to keep in mind is that just creating a vision board won’t automatically manifest what you have taped up there, you have to give it daily attention. I listed a few helpful tips to get the results you are looking for.
Put your vision board in a place where you can easily see it. I put my vision board right above my desk. Every morning when I get up and check my emails, the first thing I see starring back at me is my vision board. Putting your vision board in the eye’s view keeps it constant in your mind. Everyone knows the saying, out of sight, out of mind.
Start by visualizing what you want. This is the step a lot of people tend to over look. Manifesting your goals require effort on your part. I talk about “How to visualize what you want” in another article. The main thing to remember is that to create what you want you have to see it, feel it, hear it, even taste it. What I’m trying to say is, you have to act as if it is already yours.
True story: I had a vision of owning a Mazda CX-7. At the time, I actually didn’t know what color I wanted. So I headed up to my local Mazda dealership and grabbed a catalogue. There, I saw a beautiful deep red CX-7. I quickly cut the picture out and placed it on my vision board.
The following few weeks I would envision myself driving around in my new truck, feeling the joy it brought me. Seeing everyone admiring my shinny, new red truck.
Two months later I happened to be driving by a Honda dealership where my friend was a sales rep., and in the used section of their lot sat that exact deep red Mazda CX-7. I knew in that moment that was my truck. I pulled into the lot and found out that someone had just traded it in that morning. I quickly took my new truck on a test drive. The next day I was happily driving it home.
Don’t give up. All of my goals for my vision board didn’t happen that quickly, but that didn’t stop me from continuing to visualize what I wanted every morning. Consistency is the key. I like to use the example of building a snowball. If you take a fist full of snow and roll it the snow, it will gradually get bigger and bigger. The end results, that small, fist size snowball is now ten times its size. Every roll of that snowball increased it’s size. The more you roll it, the bigger it gets and so on. The key here is consistency. You could have stopped at any point, but if you had, you would not have had the boulder size snowball.
With your goals, every day that you focus on them, meditate on them, visualize them, is just like rolling that snowball one more time. Small efforts every day create huge results.