Illustrate Your Dreams
If you've never heard of a vision board, dream board, or treasure map, it's a process where you collect pictures of what you want in your life and create a collage out of it. The theory is that if you make this and then place it someplace where you see it often the things will start to be attracted into your life. They can be done as an individual, couple, family, group, etc. They can be made about your entire life or a single event or object or even a feeling you want more of.
I've highlighted some other sources here that can help you learn more about what a vision board is. It has become popularized in the last couple of years by first The Secret and then Oprah. They are usually found as part of the philosophy called The Law of Attraction which isn't new but is enjoying a major renaissance.
Honestly, i've made them over the years but they either haven't come true or they've somehow been warped in the time-space continuum and what I want happens to people I know instead of me. But I so want them to work! I love to read stories about how they work for other people. And so I thought why not try a Squidoo Vision Board?
One thing about it, it makes you really think about what you want. I have a hard time making decisions at all so fine tuning my desires down to pictures available on Flickr is a challenge. At the same time it's a lot more fun than trying to think about it. And I suspect more accurate in the end.
Image courtesy of AussieGail on Flickr.
Update
I created this lens on January 26, 2009.
I can't say that many of my wished for things happened until after July 19, 2009 when CCGAL left a comment here asking me to update the lens to let readers know which things had come true.
On July 25-27, 2009 I found myself in Door County, Wisconsin,. A friend suggested on July 22 - out of the blue - that we take a road trip. I wasn't sure we would make it as far as Door County.
I became a Reiki Master on August 8, 2009. Again, it was an opportunity that only came up about a week ahead of time.
On August 14, 2009 I found a ten dollar bill on my lawn.
On August 15, 2009 I spent 5 hours at a Lake Michigan beach again (a 12 hour drive round trip). Most of the gas money to get there was given to me as a surprise gift the day before.
Steps to Create Your Own Squidoo Vision Board
See what mine looks like further along in this lens...
- Decide on your topic.
(You might want to use Google Adwords or Worktracker to help you attract more visitors to your lens. The more visitors the more chance you have of creating revenue from your lens.) - Create your lens.
- Look for photos on Flickr or Photobucket or elsewhere that illustrate your dream.
They don't have to be literal. Think of other images that would describe your dream. That's where it gets to be fun and creative for me. And be sure to use images that are licensed with Creative Commons. Stealing images is not good karma and therefore would probably work against you. - Use text modules to place your images and add text.
The HTML code I used to place my images the way I did is this:
<p align="center"><a href="http://www.LINK BACK TO IMAGE PAGE.com"><img src="http://www.COPY IMAGE LOCATION.jpg" /></a></p>
You can just copy the code and replace the capitalized portions with what is described.
<"p align="center"><i>Image courtesy of <a href="http://www.LINK BACK TO IMAGE PAGE.com">NAME OF IMAGE CREATOR</a> on Flickr.</i></p>. - Create separate modules for different subthemes of your main topic.
- You could add other modules like Ebay and Amazon to list items related to the things that you want. Go crazy! Have fun! The experts say that the more positive feelings you have around the things you want the faster they will come to you. Or you can keep it simple.
- Use more text modules to describe the things you want to have happen as though they are happening right now. This is part of the Visioning process and is further described in Write It Down, Make It Happen.
Make Your Own Lens
Visioning
Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 12/29/2009)
This book was published in 2000 by a woman who has been working with Vision Boards long before they became a common catch phrase in the personal development world. This book is not just about cutting out pictures and putting them into a collage. It outlines a comprehensive process for using them as a whole system for creating the life of your dreams.
Theory #1
I suspect that the more people see your vision board, the more energy is attracted to it, and the more likely it is to happen. So Squidoo is perfect!
The Vision Board
The Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life
Amazon Price: (as of 12/29/2009)
It's the first book of it's kind.
Theory #2
Hey, wait....what if ALL Squidoo lenses are really vision boards?
Write It Down, Make It Happen
Another pre-Secret pathfinding book
Write It Down, Make It Happen: Knowing What You Want And Getting It
Amazon Price: $9.89 (as of 12/29/2009)
Another way to amp up your manifesting work is to write down what you want as though you have it right now, in as much detail as possible. This book is inspiring and easily readable and tells you exactly how to write your dreams down.
I've had this book since it was first published in 2001 and it is one of my all time favorites. It doesn't hurt that I like to write.
Do Vision Boards Work?
My Personal Vision Board Starts Here
This is Where My Dreams Begin!
Roses
Image courtesy of smcgee on Flickr.
Image courtesy of Eddi 07 on Flickr.
When the idea for this lens hatched in my mind right before Christmas 2008, the first thing I thought of was "I want roses - lots of roses throughout 2009". It seemed to me that roses would be a fairly easy thing for whoever is behind this manifesting stuff to well, manifest. But not so easy for me to get.
Roses are a powerful symbol for me. I love to look at them and their scent is one of my favorites. I even like to draw them. ((Click here to go to my lens about How to Draw a Rose.)
Financial Income and Prosperity
Image courtesy of Tracy O on Flickr.
Becoming a Reiki Master
Achieved August 8, 2009
Image courtesy of pareeerica on Flickr.
Image courtesy of aussiegall on Flickr.
Image courtesy of Eddie 07 on Flickr.
Massage Therapy Studio
Badlands National Park, South Dakota
Image courtesy of swanksalot on Flickr.
Image courtesy of Mykl Roventine on Flickr.
Image courtesy of rachaelvoorhees on Flickr.
Image courtesy of Rich238 on Flickr.
Image courtesy of DK10 on Flickr.
Image courtesy of Skyco on Flickr.
Briar Rose Bed & Breakfast in Boulder, Colorado
But mainly, just look at the place! i can't get over the green and lavender common rooms.
The Antero Room
The Blanca Room
The Windom Room
Beach House
Beach
Door County, Wisconsin
Image courtesy of James Jordan on Flickr.
Image courtesy of James Jordan on Flickr.
Image courtesy of James Jordan on Flickr.
Image courtesy of luvautumntime on Flickr.
Image courtesy of luvautumntime on Flickr.
Image courtesy of Teecycle Time on Flickr.
Image courtesy of the Brittania Bed and Breakfast on Lake Michigan.
Image courtesy of White Gull Inn - Dr. Welcker's Suite on Flickr.
Hawaii
Vision Boards in the Blogosphere
What people are doing
- Finding Inner Peace, LLC: Astrology Vision Board - January 10, 2010
- Lastly we will create a vision board that we can look at and to for the next 12 months. It is very powerful to take a hand in creating what we want and need in our lives. You will leave with a completed board! ...
- Tell me about your vision board? | Secret Hope: Dream It
- If you've watched The Secret (law of attraction) you'll know what I'm talking about. I'm curious about who has done it, as well as what they put on it. On.
- Commencement of the 2010 Vision « Lindsay Browning's Blog
- I'm a sucker for the vision board! I love it. It gives me clarify and focus. Over the past month I have been accessing the year to date and mapping my goals and path for 2010. Being extremely grateful for the personal and professional ...
- Vision Boards | Crazy Sexy Life
- This post has giving me the inspiration to keep doing this and create a vision board to help! Thank you so much for sharing, you are both rockin, amazing women, who inspire me everyday! LOVE YOU! XOXO! Have a wonderful holiday! ...
The Law of Attraction in Action
A Book Review lens
A great, easily readable, introductory guidebook to the overall philosophy of the Law of Attraction.-
The Law of Attraction in Action
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There is plenty being written about the Law of Attraction these days. Most of it is about how to change your mind in order to change your energy in order to attract to you what you want in life. Not as much of it tells you how to take action to reinf...
Books About the Law of Attraction
And most books about the Law of Attraction feature something about vision boards
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Mine, Mine, Mine!!
Thoughts, comments, etc...
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- newbizmau newbizmau Nov 30, 2009 @ 5:23 pm
- I was just thinking of creating a vision board on squidoo, but decided to search vision board on squidoo first, and came across your lens. I know its law of attraction that brought me to your lens and I'm going to create my own squid vision board right now.
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- Jewelsofawe Jewelsofawe Nov 28, 2009 @ 9:35 pm
- I love this! I am lensrolling it to my powerful intentions lens and Blessing it!
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- marsha32 marsha32 Sep 16, 2009 @ 9:10 pm
- I love it!! Did you see my book review lens on The Vision Board book? I put a photo of my own vision board on the lens.
Now, with that said, I moved July 1 of this year and my board is still on the wall in my mom's basement by my bed. I need to take it down and bring it here as the visions are still the same....some are realized.
I might make my own lens of it....noting what's realized and what is still to be realized.
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- CCGAL CCGAL Aug 20, 2009 @ 4:03 pm
- How exciting! Thank you for the update and for letting me know about it! I may have to join you and make a vision board of my own on Squidoo now. Good job, very interesting lens.
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- CCGAL CCGAL Jul 19, 2009 @ 3:44 pm
- I like your idea of using Squidoo as a vision board. On a personal note, I would very much like to have some narratives about what came about in your life as a result of having made this vision board lens - I realize 2009 is only half over, but surely something has happened as a result.
Some of your flicker photos are unavailable, by the way. Nice job!
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