Whether you have read tomes on the Law of Attraction or just a few blog posts, you must have got this by now — teachers, advocates, and believers all agree that visualization is a powerful manifestation technique. And they all ask you to create a vision board to make the visualization exercise more effective.
But you are still skeptical. You can’t help but wonder aloud.
How will staring at a few pictures help me turn my life around?
How will “visualizing” a better life help me actually get there?
And then you wonder if it makes sense to spend (waste, as you would rather believe) time “visualizing” when you should be hustling, networking, or burning the midnight oil to improve your life.
That’s because you are someone who is not happy if you can’t join the dots. You are a person who is not convinced until you spot the clear, unmistakable thread of logic running through statements, assertions, and pronouncements. Visualization doesn’t scream sense to you.
So, here’s decoding the workings of the vision board.
A vision board works because it keeps your dreams afloat.
Dreams are powerful. Dreams motivate you to get up, pick up the pieces, and carry on when you stumble and fall. Dreams keep you going when life or the people in it hold you back. Dreams are the blueprint of the life you want to create. They keep you on track because life is full of distractions.
So, dream big. It is not for nothing that all who have made it big live by this motto.
But dreaming is not easy. Nurturing a dream is harder still. And holding on to one seems downright impossible.
You slog away at multiple shifts or two jobs just to pay the bills and put food on the table. Where’s the money to invest in your own business?
You probably spend all your waking hours racing against time and juggling a seemingly endless array of tasks, duties, and errands, so your kids can go to college, your spouse can do his own thing, and your ailing parents can be comfortable. Where’s the time and the energy to pursue your hobbies?
And as you plod through the days, you begin to think this is how the rest of your life will play out. You start believing that you can never climb out of the rut. The dreams you once had start to fade, and one day, you convince yourself that there is no other way to live and nothing better to look forward to.
This is where the vision board comes to your rescue.
A vision board transports you to a world beyond your current reality. The pictures open a world of possibilities. When you gaze at the pictures you have pasted on the vision board, you remember your dreams. Remembering evokes desire, and if you stare at your vision board long enough and often enough, your yearnings turn powerful. And when you are fired up by powerful desires, you are motivated to chase your dreams.
Dreamers are doers. For those who choose to act, their dreams become their goals. When you have your goals in sight, you remain focused. When you stare at the vision board often, the dreams do not seem distant. Nor do the goals seem unattainable. The dreams you had once forgotten (or forsaken) start to become familiar. Familiarity breeds association. Gradually, your dreams become an inseparable part of you. They stay with you, grow within you, and inspire you. So, whether or not you believe in the power of visualization, create a vision board to keep your dreams alive.
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