Have you ever created a vision board or collage? If you haven't, or it's been a while, I encourage you give it a go. I love it for several reasons: It's lots of fun, it uses both the right and left sides of your brain and it can become a powerful visual reminder of what you're working towards and where you've been.
Any time is an excellent time to creatively reflect on the year and consider what you hope or believe the future has in store for you.
Here's how to make your own vision board/collage:
What you'll need:
* A piece of cardboard or even several sheets of paper fastened together.
* A variety of magazines. For example you can use what you have on hand - catalogs, lifestyle, travel or beauty magazines. Some people look for specific images or phrases online and print them out, which is fine, but I like to keep myself a bit more restricted.
* You can also use photographs and other objects like bits of fabric, ribbons, dried plants, etc
* Glue. I prefer a glue stick, but rubber cement and double-stick tape works.
How to proceed:
* You can either decide on an intention or a theme for various areas of your life like: My business in 2010. My ministry in 2010. My dream house. My dream relationship. Places I want to visit... You get the idea.
* Or you can just look through your magazines and pick out images, words and phrases that call out to you, letting the art become what it will. You could end up with different themes, values or a bit of your personal journey.
* Collect a large pile of images, words and phrases that jump out at you and put them to one side.
* You can either find a background to work from or just begin to assemble your newly cut pieces right onto the board.
* DON'T glue anything down yet.
* Lay the pieces out - arrange them, rearrange them, layer them, make shapes out of them, overlap them, etc.
* Once you're happy with the layout you've created, you can start to glue things in place.
* NOTE: Don't worry if the piece takes on a life of its own. For example, you might have intended to work on My Dream House, but somehow you ended up with pictures of children and flowers, that's OK. There's clearly something else going on for you that needs to be acknowledged.
* You can add paints, glitter, writing, other decorative elements if you choose.
* DISPLAY IT!
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