(For Ashleigh- thanks for all your support 💕)
What do you want for your life? How do you express it? Do you write out goals or create a business plan? I would recommend you consider a Vision Board.
Last week I attended a Women In Financial Services meeting and had the opportunity to make a Vision Board for 2018. I’ve done this in the past and I think it’s a very good thing to do. It was an especially good thing for me as a grieving widow. For one, it is something that goes with my 2018 word “Create”. As a visual person it allowed me to create a picture of what I’ve been thinking I want this year to be.
I put some pictures on it that represent organization. Rob and I moved to this home 4 years ago this March, but I’ve never really set up my craft area. I put the word “peace” with those pictures, because creating will bring me peace.
I put a picture of a barn and the words “a warm welcome” on it. I would love to have a barn and host barn dances, but I’m considering if it needs to be a beautiful barn for other purposes as well. Either way dear friends and others will be welcome.
Interestingly enough there was a “trout” magazine near me. How many of you would pick that one up to look through? It spoke to me because of the beautiful trout Rob and I caught together, and how amazing those fishing trips were. In the magazine was a beautiful picture of the “River of Hope”, a well sought after place for trout fishing. But it has an entirely different meaning for me. My life is filled with hope as I seek to know what the Lord has for me next. This picture was a beautiful representation of that.
I have things to add to the Vision Board, as our time was limited, such as something about my writing goals for this year.
Vision Boards are generally a picture you create of things you want to manifest in your life. Often centered around money you want to make, things you want to be able to purchase and health goals. There is nothing wrong with that. I and many people I know, have made those things come true by using a Vision Board. Additionally for me, it was a very grounding experience. It helped me to FEEL the things I know to be true: that I will be okay, that I will live my life to the fullest, that intense grief will not last forever and I do have the peace and hope that I’m portraying on my Board. That’s it’s okay to look for peace and hope everyday until it’s fully present in my life.
My foundational verse is worth repeating here: Jer 29:11 I know the plans I have for you saith the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you.
Father help us focus on the life you would have us live, while knowing that no matter the curve balls life has sent us that we should live each day to the fullest. Help us to dream big and be all that You intended us to be. Amen
Grace Under Pressure 