A Vision for 2016




In January of 2016, I created a vision board.  It's a powerful thing, this board of mine. 

It's unattractive, mind you.  Not nearly as pretty as it could be.  I worked alongside 10 other women and we laughed and searched and pasted and they found beautiful tropical escapes and spiritual logos.   I searched magazines for the perfect visual reminders of what I wanted the Universe to manifest in my life.  But alas, the Universe apparently didn't want to manifest any visual reminders.  Or at least, not pretty ones. 


But this jumped off the page at me.  And it demanded to be snipped and pasted onto my board. 

I've been a repressed writer for years.  Well, semi-repressed.  If we're friends on Social Media, you may have noticed that I was a paragraph and a title away from blogging 4 days out of 5, anyway. 

 I didn't intend to start my blog tonight, but, while wandering the internet, found a blog written by someone I know and I thought, "hey, I can do this".  And so, I did. 

This has been a consistent theme with this vision board.  I've been bopping along, doing my life thing and then...BAM.  Something jumps in front of me. Something that is in line with those items I put on the board.  And those "somethings" seem to be consistently...do-able. 

And so, this first post on my writing adventure is themed, "Where did that come from?".

Our minds are powerful things, capable of great good, not so good, and complete apathy.  I am stunned to see what a little vision can accomplish.  I have some theories on what is happening through this process with so LITTLE effort on my part.

The first theory is that the Universal Power, whatever you choose to call it, better understands what I want and is allowing me to "speak into existence" these hopes and dreams.   This would be similar to an Elmer's GlueAll prayer process. 

The next theory is that because I have made a conscious decision to put some things in my cross hairs, I am now hyper aware of those opportunities that present themselves.  So there aren't necessarily more opportunities, I simply notice them more.

The last is that I am capable of changing the things that are in front of me, as I am energy and they are energy and like attracts like.  Similar to the book/movie "The Secret". 

I'm very curious about your theories on this.  Just to catch you fully up to speed, I've had some seriously creative and productive days at work,  woken up in a great mood more mornings than not, and lost 6 pounds.  I've also been much better about saving money and have been relentless at removing clutter in my house and yard.  All of these things are on the board.  But my previous process of making a list, planning my days, and forcing myself into action has been conspicuously absent. 

Whatever it is seems to be working some strange magic in my life.  I'm sold on the vision board and this will probably be a consistent activity in my January.  I find that a little exciting. 

Please jot down a thought or two.  I'd love for this blog to be a 2 way conversation.  I'll respond as I can, when appropriate. 

Much love fill your day and light your way, until we meet again.

Dawn