Ruth Sanderson

Do you have a vision for your future? 

How often do you spend time dreaming, imagining what you’d like to happen.  I’m not talking about fantasy, that’s when you dream of something you don’t believe could or would ever happen. 

In most cases we don’t allow ourselves enough time to envision our future, we’re so busy with today and our to do lists.  It’s almost the end of October and before you know it we’ll be schooching into Christmas, with bags of tinsel under our arms, hoping to make the last post and pick up a turkey.  And then 2009 will arrive.  Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun.

So if you haven’t considered your future for a while, then stick it on your to-do list.  Find a quiet space, with your favourite frappie-cappie-mocha-super-skinny drink should you so fancy, and have a think.

Now when you’ve done this imagineering what then, well write it down, it starts to crystallise your thoughts and it’s the first step on the road to making them happen. 

Next scour the Internet, magazines, and any other sources for images that represent what it is you want.  It can be an exact image, eg a car, or it can be an image that embodies what it is you want.  So it’s not a literal representation.

Then put these images on a board or large sheet of paper with blue tack or pins.  It means you can move them around into a combination that is very powerful for you.  It’s like you’re writing the story of your future. 

On a daily basis look at your vision board - drink it in, immerse yourself, feel like you have it, either the whole thing, or the individual components.

Now pay attention.  You see your vision board is what you want, but right now you won’t know the how you’re going to make it happen part.  I certainly haven’t a clue for mine.  Yet here’s the spooky thing, you don’t need to know the how’s if you pay attention, because ideas, opportunities etc they just show up.  Clearly you have to be awake to listen to them, which is why looking at your board on a regular basis is important, cos now you’re focused on what you want to create.

So here’s the recipe:-

Set aside a good 30 mins to let your imagination run riot

Write it down in glorious technicolour

Find images that best represent your future

Get paper and scissors ready and have a wonderful Blue Peter moment - remember always get an adult to do the cutting for you and you don’t need that pesky sticky backed plastic stuff, which is a bonus I say.

Stick the images on the board

View daily and move the images around until you get the best feeling (as in you feel like you have them)

Pay attention

Simple really - well some of the best things in life are.