During Saturday’s PowerGroup meetup, we made vision boards. Unlike my Date With Destiny vision board, this one was much simpler and more visual. It has four key sectors 1) Wealth 2) Vitality 3) Adventure 4) Love.

How did we actually built these boards? During last month’s meetup, we went through a goal setting process to help people get clear about what they really want to ACHIEVE. This was great prep for the vision process.

The only real guidance for creating the boards were that they be:

• Visual: they should be easy understand
• Emotional: they should evoke excitement and interest
• Personal: they should make sense for you and really fit your true goals
• Current: they should be relevant for you given where you are right now in your life

Aside from these guiding principles, the process was very much free-form. Everyone brought magazines to help build their own giant collage. We also had poster board, markers and some other tools to make them personal.

Want to create your own vision board? Here are the steps we used.

1. Get clear about goals for the next year or so. This is by far the most crucial part of the process. Sometimes it helps to think of broad categories or “sections” that you want to represent in you board. For example, I had my four sections as mentioned above.
2. Start ripping out images from magazines that represent your goals. Lay these out (roughly) on the poster board.
3. Take post-it notes and write down any “power words” or motivational quotes. Place these on the board.
4. Cut out the images and align them.
5. Paste the images to the board. Don’t use Elmer’s glue, it will cause the images to ripple, use glue sticks that are safe for photos.
6. Write out any power words or quotes. Decorate your board in any other way to make it personal and powerful for you.

The board should be placed in a visual location. In fact, you should make a point to look at it and reflect at least twice a day.

Keep in mind, the purpose of a vision board is to help you achieve your potential as a human being. It is not meant to magically manifest anything you desire into your life. With this perspective, I am excited to track progress for myself and the powergroup as we continue to grow over the coming months.

What do you think?

I was watching the sunset with a wonderful friend last night. We were looking out the windows across an absolutely amazing view of the mountains and the water. The sunset was a radiant redish-purple. Everything was perfect….except for a handful of powerlines literally crossing our view of the sun! I was a little ticked. My kodak moment was gone. I couldn’t stop adjusting myself on the sofa to get a better view.

Of course, she reminded me not focus on the power lines, but to focus on the awesome sunset. Believe it or not, it actually worked. After a few minutes, the powerlines appeared to be gone (and no, it was not because I was blinded by the sun!).

At any rate, she reminded me of a quote, which I could have sworn I had heard before, but couldn’t pin down.

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

It hit me this morning.

This is a popular saying by Dr. Wayne Dyer. He has several books published and has recently had his “Power of Intention” tv program in heavy rotation on PBS. His audio programs are quite good, and I highly recommend checking out his podcast.

This is soo true. When we focus on the bad stuff, we wonder why the good stuff in life never seems to come there way. Change your perspective and you’d be amazed at how your environment will respond.

OK, enough wisdom for one night. Intense yoga class tonite. I am gonna go rehydrate and go to sleep!