Making A Vision Board

Over the past couple of days I've been working on creating a vision board.

What's that, you ask? Well, it's a poster you make of the things you want in your life & then you put it in a place where you'll see it all the time so you're reminded of those things. That means it doesn't go in a closet, under the bed or behind your desk!

With your goals and intentions "named" you focus on them and attract them to your life. At least, that's what the theory is.

This is a new approach for me because usually I make lists and then cross off the things that get accomplished. I liked this more organic, less linear approach to goal-setting and really creating a vision for yourself so I decided to go for this method in 2010.

I've been cutting up magazines looking for images that represent things I want to accomplish this year. I've been trying to put things in categories: emotional, spiritual, physical, material and mental. I also wanted to pick the same number of things from each category because I wanted to feel balanced and I didn't want to feel guilty if I, for example, only had two things in the spiritual and I had ten in the material category.

However, now I'm wondering if I'm trying to control the process too much and I'm being terribly inorganic. Perhaps I'm not as go-with-the-flow as I like to think of myself.

I didn't put a picture of myself finishing the vision board on the board - but when I finish up this week, I'm thinking I'll share some of the things on it with you all.

But tell me, have you ever made one of these boards? If you did, did you actually use it or at the end of the year was it a cobweb repository? And if you've never done one, what would you put on it?