3. Why create a vision board?
• Helps define goals.
• Envisioning positive things has same
effect as experiencing positive things.
• Draws what you want into your life.
• Fun!
6. Create your vision board!
• Focus: Blog, Career, Life, Travels, ???
• Grab a board
• Clippings/magazines
• Glue sticks
• If you don’t finish, take clippings home!
• I’m here to help: find images, define goals,
glue images…whatever!
Editor's Notes
Build a Vision Board for Your Blog (or your career, your travels, your life)
By the time you leave today you will have created your own vision board, or at least started to create your own board.
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Founder/editor of TravelMamas.com
Author, “The Travel Mamas’ Guide”
Teach blogging classes to newbie bloggers
Presentation short so we can get to making your vision boards!
A vision board is a visual representation of goals you would like to achieve or dreams you would like fulfilled.
Oprah introduced many of us to vision boards years ago when she did a show about vision boards back when she was on network TV.
You can use Pinterest to make a vision board but we are going to be making old school vision board with poster board, magazine clippings & glue sticks.
Today we’re making old school vision boards with magazine clippings and glue sticks.
Show Phil’s vision board.
This is a photo of my vision board. A lot of things on this board have come into my life. But more on that later. Note: Disney ship and Oprah.
Helps define goals:
A lot of times we’re so busy doing, we don’t stop to think and plan ahead. We’re too busy answering emails, writing posts & tweeting to think about where we want our blog (or life) to go.
Do you want to focus more on making money, do you want to write a book, land more sponsored posts, start video blogging, focus more on personal narrative, improve your photography skills?
“Be careful if you don’t know where you’re going in life, because you might not get there.”- Yogi Berra, Baseball Player/Coach
“To reach a port, we must sail—Sail, not tie at anchor—Sail, not drift.” – Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. President
Envisioning positive things has the same effect as experiencing positive things.
Shawn Achor, author of the book, Before Happiness, explained in an interview with Oprah Winfrey on the OWN Network’s “Super Soul Sunday” that travelers actually enjoy their vacations more before leaving home than they do during their vacations. It is the anticipation of travel that brings so much joy. He said, “Our brain can’t tell much difference between visualization and actual experience. So if you’re visualizing something positive that’s going to happen in the future, you’re literally doubling the positive effect upon your life.”
Draws what you want into your life.
Every great athlete envisions themselves winning. Mary Lou Retton said she mentally rehearsed her gymnastics routine for hours before winning the gold medal at the Olympics the next day.
Phil Jackson, one of the best NBA coaches of all time, encourages his team members to use visualization to calm their nerves and help them win. He said, “Visualization is an important tool for me.”
A vision board is a tool to help you visualize your dreams and goals.
Fun!
When was the last time you got to play with glue sticks & make a collage? Not your kids, but YOU!
Boost creativity!
