So you’ve been living with your vision board for a week now. Perhaps more or less, if you’re not completing these exercises exactly as they’ve been posted here.
Take a few minutes to reflect on your vision board and your relationship with it. What have you learned about your board since then? Does it feel familiar to you? Do you feel comfortable looking at it? Does it make more sense now than it did when you created it?
Today we’re going to work on creating affirmations based on our board. We’re going to look at the things that we would need to believe in order to be, do, or have the things represented on our vision board.
Let’s get started:
- Complete the task meditation to clear your mind of life’s daily clutter.
- Sit down with your vision board in front of you. Take a good look at it.
- What would you need to believe in order to act right now as if you already were/did/have all of the things on the board? Write them down in your journal or notebook, in the present tense, as if you already believed or felt these things. Start out with: “To believe I can lead the life I dream of, and to be/do/have all of the things on my vision board, I need to affirm to myself that I…” Write down at least five things.
- Review your list. Write down at least three more.
- Now copy your list to a separate sheet of paper. Just write the shortened part of the sentence, without “To believe I can lead…” These are your affirmations, which may read something like: I am confident, I have time, I have the flexibility…
- Hang your list of affirmations near your board, or in another place where you will see it several times a day. Read through it as often as you can. Make a separate copy to use as a bookmark or to keep in your handbag or wallet. Record yourself repeating the phrases and add them to your mp3 player or phone. Listen to them during the day or before you go to bed.
- Pay attention to changes in your life. Make note of them in your journal or notebook.
We’ll be revisiting this list of affirmations in the next exercise, so it will be helpful for you to keep them present in your life.
