Do you visualize what you want your life to be? Do you have a mental picture of how you want to live? On my 49th birthday I sat down with pen and paper and wrote what I wanted for my life. Today I’m living the majority of what I wrote. There are some areas I’d like to be different, but those are areas I didn’t include in my list. Now, a few days after my latest birthday (I shan’t say which!:)), I’m working on a visual of what I want for the next few years of my life. This time I will include the areas I left out of the last one!
Visualizing is a fun way of planning your future. When you visualize, you’re dreaming of what you want, but you get more specific, and you use different materials, so that your dreams satisfy your tactile senses. When I sat with pen and paper, I just made a list. Today I cut out pictures, make lists and doodle. I have a scrapbook in which I glue my pictures or tape my lists. I use post it notes and attach those to pages in certain categories. I have a category for my professional dreams, my personal, family, financial, and even, because my coach said so, I have a category for wild and adventurous. I love those two. In my wild category, I’ve pasted a picture of a jet, because I’d like to own my own plane, or at least, have the financial means to charter a private plane. A long time ago I loved flying. Now, going through security and the long waits keep me earthbound!
Making my dreams visual sends a message to my psyche. I’m bringing my dreams closer to reality by having a visual of them. I have a little difficulty visualizing with just my mind…trying to see exactly what I want playing around in my mind. By cutting out pictures of things that are similar and pasting them into a book, I can see them more clearly…and send the message to my brain…this is my plan for my future. I’m also sending a message to the universe…this is what I want, let’s get busy and make it happen!
Do you visualize? It’s fun! Try it and see what happens. Let me know. Let’s visualize together, the life we want!
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