Storyboard Your Life Avi Solomon [email_address]

A Storyboard is a sequence of images and words drawn together on a page to form a plausible narrative

Storyboards are routinely used in the movie making business to ‘walkthrough' a movie before a single shot is taken.

Not only does a storyboard allow for a dress rehearsal of the final product but by the very fact of being posted on the wall, it elicits early feedback and encourages quick, painless editing, leading to significant savings in time and resources. Disney was a storyboarding freak!

so is M. Night Shyamalam!

Storyboarding has spread far beyond filmmaking. I first encountered storyboarding as a production method in Technical Writing.

And as an effective means of producing books.

A storyboard is an apt metaphor for how we make sense of our own life history.

Storyboarding can be used to sense emergent patterns in our own life story and to envision the life experiences that we wish to welcome into our future. For example here are some panels from my life storyboard: Contemplating my life storyboard a pattern emerges: “Learning makes me happy!”

So I doodle possible future learning events that I wish to experience. My life storyboard thus clues me in with a context for the future directions in my life and sensitizes me to be on the lookout for those strategic events that can potentially influence and change my life for the better. Note that these are positive life events that I initiate proactively and work towards bringing them into my life.

I can now drill down to the 'runway level' for each item on the list until I visualize EXACTLY how I wish to bring it to fruition. If you don't visualize what you want to happen down to the smallest viable resolution, it probably won't happen! I have chosen the panel 'Visiting the Giza Pyramid' as an example to drill down into:

As soon as I had the Giza Pyramid storyboard stuck on my den wall it acted as a catalyst to make things happen and I was able to visit Cairo for the express purpose of experiencing the Great Pyramid complex. Of course there were lots of interesting, unexpected adventures on the way to Egypt and back but the storyboard acted as a guide to help me stay focused and simultaneously be open to the experience.

I hope this little exercise has given you the push to use Storyboarding to work to envision and actualize YOUR future Life! Storyboarding Resources: - Storyboard Your Life Facebook Group - DIYPlanner Storyboard Template