How And Why To Make A Vision Board – Inspiring Women

Posted on May 14, 2012 by maritas

Do you feel stuck in your life and you don’t know what to do next?

So many women in their later years experience this painful state, I know what it feels like, I’ve been there. But transitions like this are great opportunities to grow and the perfect time to make a vision board. Learn how to set intentions for your life, to be playful, to add adventure and magic to your life and to be happy.

You will find simple tips on how and why to make Vision Boards. The process is not only fun and wildly creative but also a very empowering tool and life changing. The interview will answer a lot of questions you might have in regards to Vision boards, or check out the short video below to learn some basics and get inspired to make one your self. If you rather read click here to get my e book: Transform your life with Vision Boards, if you have more questions let me know, I will answer!

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Change Your Habits in 3 tiny Steps

Posted on May 18, 2012 by maritas

dream vision boardMarita here, as you all know I like to research and present you with interesting practical tips, that might just change your life. I found this program by BJ Fogg,
PhD Director, Persuasive Tech Lab Stanford University. The best is: his program “3 Tiny Habits” is free. I will sign up myself, it’s never too late to learn new habits to achieve your life goals and empower your life.

 

This is is what he says: to create tiny habits  you can change your life forever.

My new program “3 Tiny Habits” can create new behaviors in your life.

Let me explain . . . I’ve studied human behavior for 18 years, mostly at Stanford University. Here’s what I’ve learned: Only three things will change behavior in the long term.

Option A. Have an epiphany
Option B. Change your context (what surrounds you)
Option C. Take baby steps

Creating an epiphany is difficult. You should rule out Option A unless you have mystical powers (I don’t).

But here’s the good news: The other two options are practical. And they can lead to lasting change if you follow the right program. However, few winning programs exist.

In December of 2011, I created a new way to tap the power of context and baby steps. Over 3200 people have since joined in. The results are the best I’ve ever seen in any program.
My method is surprisingly simple, but the impact is big. See what people say.

I invite you to join a future session of 3 Tiny Habits. Go here –> http://tinyhabits.com/join

–BJ

twitter @bjfogg
www.bjfogg.com
captology.stanford.edu

sounds good, doesn’t it! I will let you know what I think about his program, if you have tried it leave a comment below.

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How to Create The “I Am Successful Vision Board”

Posted on May 16, 2012 by maritas

create a business vision boardWe all want to be successful, have the career we desire and support ourselves doing what we love to do. Why not create an “I am successful  vision board”, with images and messages of whatever you want to manifest in your work life.

Your dreams, passions how much money you want to make, what kind of a relationship you desire with your clients, coworkers, employer or whatever else. Where you want to work, how you want to work, see yourself happy and successful, make it fun. Setting intentions for your life is a very efficient way to achieve your life goals and empower your self. It’s only a poster board go for it just try. The worst that can happen is that it does not manifest right away. Walt Disney used to say if you can dream it, you can be it, he sure is a good example that the strategy works. Continue reading →

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You Can Be Creative Outdoors

Posted on May 15, 2012 by maritas

be creative in the sandYou don’t have to be in a specific area or have specific tools to get in touch with your creative side. Many of us have creativity buried deep inside under responsibility and career but simply taking the time to enjoy the outdoors and allow nature to speak to us is a wonderful way to find our inspiration.

Your inner creativity is a personal thing, and you don’t have to be an artist or a musician to indulge your creative passions and talents. There are many creative endeavors you can tackle each and every day that will lend themselves to improving your mood, and contributing to your overall happiness. Knowing yourself, knowing what you like and knowing what you are capable of are the first steps to changing your life in a positive way. So take some time to find out what inspires you! Start creating your life now. Continue reading →

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How Creativity Can Help You Achieve Your Goals

Posted on May 14, 2012 by maritas

success quoteCreativity can help you achieve your goals. There are several ways to incorporate creativity into your day to day life and find great ways to achieve your goals.

As human beings, we all have goals, dreams that we would like to see come true. Often though, we are lost in the minutia of how to achieve those dreams so instead we cast them off. Making your dreams a reality is nothing more than getting in touch with your inner creativity.  Creativity is out of the box thinking, it will help find solutions to problems, to be innovative and playful. Creativity is an infusion of spirit. Continue reading →

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How To Have Fun With Vision Boards

Posted on May 13, 2012 by maritas

Vision Board JournalI admit, I always have fun making vision boards or talking about vision boards. For people who think they are not creative it might be harder, but rest assured it’s easy and ones you accept that, you will have fun.

Right now I have images and clippings spread all over my carpet and table waiting to be picked for another life map creation. Vision boards are an effective tool to help achieve your life goals and to empower your self and your life.

My friend Marcella and I are starting on a new vision board adventure. It is so delightful to create vision boards in the company of friends to support and empower each other.

A Vision Board Journal is a good place to start. In order to be more focused, I write down my intentions for what I want to achieve in my work life, community, fitness, or whatever theme I’m working on. When I work on a vision board, I look it up and know exactly what images and words to look for. sometimes i can’t find the words I need, in that case I type them and print them out. Creating our life is a very important strategy and we might as well give it all we have.

Have you made a vision board lately? Would you like to share your story? Leave your comment with contact information and I will contact you.

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“Nourish your spirit” is the motto. How to find joy and fulfillment in life, in a community of like minded women. Click the blue link, or the image to join our community of women at Creative Life Now. Are you looking for support, friends, ideas, tips, motivation and inspiration? The subjects are: Creativity as meditation, Vision Boards, Collages and Creative Writing. Let’s support each other and share ideas. A melting pot of experts in the fields of Creativity and Healing, Vision boards, Collages and Creative Writing and women seeking expert advice and inspiration.

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How To Use A Vision Boards In Your Life

Posted on May 10, 2012 by maritas

women working on vision boardHi Marita here, I was just on a longer plane ride and too tired to read or work on my computer, so I just thought about my next steps in life. I remembered that a few weeks ago I had a tarot reading. I always do things like this when I’m confused and loose sight of where I’m going, when too many choices are presented and I cannot choose between them.

I am very creative, have lots of talents and several careers. I teach about vision boards, do artwork,  sell real estate and decorate and stage homes. For creatives like me who are torn between many different callings, life can get confusing sometimes. The  tarot reading helped clarify and accept that about me. Yes I do lots of things it’s my nature, but it’s important to set priorities and goals and visualize where I want to go. Continue reading →

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What Is Visioning? Why Do Visioning As Part Of Vision Board Creation?

Posted on May 5, 2012 by maritas

envision successIt’s so wonderful how the universe works: I was thinking about writing a post about visioning and how to integrate it into the process of creating vision boards. I googled some materials and found this article by vision board expert Joyce Schwarz. There are a few important parts to creating successful vision boards and how they work, vision is one of them. At the end of the article is a brief bio about Joice Schwartz and she offers a free chapters of her book for my readers to enjoy.

As I write in the first chapter of my book THE VISION BOARD: the secret to an extraordinary life, “visioning is a self-exploration process that is sometimes compared to a combination of “soul searching” and meditation and even incorporates improvisation techniques.

VISIONING AROUND THE WORLD

Visioning is a group-focussed activity that encourages people to gather together and get input from others to envision their best possible life. Visioning is also a tool in such corporate areas as strategic planning, new product launches, new company introductions and venture capital acquisition.

Such major economic development organizations as VISTA, the United Nations and the World Bank do some form of the visioning process as part of their training and community outreach with third world and emerging nations.

VISIONING IN EDUCATION

Visioning is used in scenario creation and in model development by religious and educational communities and even in the world of business and entrepreneurship (as mentioned above). Teachers often use visioning as a way to plan a school year with fellow colleagues and later with students.

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside awakes, says Carl Jung

WHY DO VISIONING BEFORE MAKING A VISION BOARD?

Because visioning is so much more than just wishing or dreaming or magical thinking. Visioning opens up your mind, body and yes, soul so that you can finally release negativity and be ready to receive what is rightfully yours in this world. It empowers you to co-create your best possible life with the Universe!

For more tips on visioning, email: joyceschwarz@gmail.com And refer to Chapter one of THE VISION BOARD book or see a free chapter at http://tinyurl.com/visionboardamazon.

Author’s Bio:

Joyce Schwarz is the best-selling author of THE VISION BOARD book (www.ihaveavision.org) Follow her at www.twitter.com/visionboard and connect with her at http://www.facebook.com/joyceschwarz She is also a paid professional speaker who offers keynote addresses and workshops on envisioning your future for companies, organizations and nonprofit groups internationally. She just returned from a trip to Latin America. Schwarz is looking for joint venture partners fot he launch of the paperback version for her book THE VISION BOARD, email her at joyceschwarz@gmail.com to get involved.

I hope this article was valuable, I was impressed how many high profile organizations and businesses are using visioning as part of their success strategy. Vision boards are effective tools to manifest your vision for your life, or your business and to empower your life. It’s a lot of fun and a very creative way to achieve your life goals.

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“Nourish your spirit” is the motto. How to find joy and fulfillment in life, in a community of like minded women. Click the blue link, or the image to join our community of women at Creative Life Now. Are you looking for support, friends, ideas, tips, motivation and inspiration? The subjects are: Creativity as meditation, Vision Boards, Collages and Creative Writing. Let’s support each other and share ideas. A melting pot of experts in the fields of Creativity and Healing, Vision boards, Collages and Creative Writing and women seeking expert advice and inspiration.

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Achieve Fitness and Weight Loss Goals With a Vision Board

Posted on May 4, 2012 by maritas

Vision boards can be targeted to all areas of your life, what if you want to achieve fitness and health goals with a vision board? No problem, you write down your goals, find the images that represent those goals and get going. I found this article for you, it will help  with some practical tips. Check out this image below, it’s inspiring. It can be achieved but it will take training and healthy food. Let’s try it!

 

vision board to achieve fitness goalsPeople around the world are always trying to make goals to improve their health and fitness. One of the biggest goals or New Year’s resolutions you hear about are those people who want to lose weight. While they might have the best of intentions in mind let’s face it, many people end up giving up within a matter of weeks, or even days.

Maintaining a good level of fitness requires a complete lifestyle change. Being fit is a lifestyle. The only way you can meet your fitness and weight loss goals is by continuing to make healthy choices for the rest of your life.

What is a Vision Board?

One of the ways to get yourself motivated to meet any fitness or weight loss goal you’ve made is by creating a vision board. A vision board is basically a collage of pictures, quotes and/or phrases related to your goal. The idea is to create the vision board and then place it somewhere you will see it daily. A great place to hang it would be in a home gym or your bedroom.

Creating a Vision Board

Creating one is very simple and inexpensive. You might even already have all of the supplies you need lying around your home. You can make the board as fancy or as plain as you’d like.

What you need:

  • Poster Board
  • Magazines (fitness, health, diet related)
  • Glue or Tape
  • Stickers and other embellishments

To begin, look through magazines – preferably those related to health and/or fitness in one way or another – and cut out anything that stands out to you or that inspires you to work towards your goals. Cut outs could be photos of fitness models, inspiring messages or quotes, numbers that represent the amount of weight you want to lose or a bikini photo. If one of your goals is to flatten your abs, cut out pictures of people with fabulous abdominals, etc.Once you’ve cut out several things, begin to arrange them on the poster board in a collage and then tape or glue all the pieces down so they stay in place. When you’re done it’s time to embellish -if you’d like – with stickers, glitter or anything else you can think of.

After you’ve completed your collage of motivation, hang it up on a wall or place it somewhere you will constantly see it so you can be reminded of what you’re working towards and why.

I’m a huge believer in vision boards and I have created a fitness-related vision board for myself and you can see it on my fitness blog.

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Great article, I love how she is targeting weight loss fitness and health goals. You got to remember you can do anything, but it requires a change of life style. When I was in my late 40s I was unhappy and it kicked me into action to move out of my comfort zone and change a lot of things. I stopped drinking alcohol, I stopped smoking, I worked on not complaining so much, I changed my diet, I exercised. I lost about 40 pounds and have kept them off. I look younger now than 10 years ago. I know it can be done, but it is not exactly easy to make all these changes.

Do you have an inspiring story you would like to share? I am looking for guest bloggers:

Who? women over 40 who changed their lives and finally allowed themselves to do do what they love to do.

What? Either a blog post about the change or a good vision board story. Click here for more information.

 

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“Nourish your spirit” is the motto. How to find joy and fulfillment in life, in a community of like minded women. Click the blue link, or the image to join our community of women at Creative Life Now. Are you looking for support, friends, ideas, tips, motivation and inspiration? The subjects are: Creativity as meditation, Vision Boards, Collages and Creative Writing. Let’s support each other and share ideas. A melting pot of experts in the fields of Creativity and Healing, Vision boards, Collages and Creative Writing and women seeking expert advice and inspiration.

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What The Heck Is An Afformation

Posted on May 2, 2012 by maritas

lavender fieldWhat the heck is an affirmation and what does it have to do with a vision board? If you think afformation is mistyped, let me assure you: it is not.

There are affirmations and afformations, read the article below by Noah St John and you will understand the difference and why afformations are even more effective than affirmations.  Well I actually do both versions it keeps my mind busy with positive stuff. For a vision board to be effective it is necessary to believe that we can achieve what we want and to find a way for our unconscious to achieve our life goals, so how we phrase it of most importance.

Noah St. John is the Author of SecretCodeBook.com. more about Noah at the end of this post

We all know that an “affirmation” is a statement of something you want to be true in your life. So an example of a traditional “affirmation” might be: “I am rich.”All right, let’s try it. Say to yourself right now, “I am rich.” Did you hear what just happened in your mind? A voice… a voice that said: “Yeah, right!”

The plain truth is that most of us don’t believe our own “affirmations”. Why? Because we’re trying to convince ourselves of something we don’t believe is true. Continue reading →

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