At our career retreat last month, we did a lot of work with visuals. There's something about working with pictures that unleashes ideas and insights that aren't available to our verbal brains, in part because the "Judge" who tells us everything we say and do is stupid resides in the left/verbal part of our thinking. When we go to the right side of our brains, we are able to bypass many of these negative thoughts that can stop us from getting at what we really think and feel.
This morning I came across a wonderful tool/idea from Christine Kane called a Vision Board. She says:
A vision board (also called a Treasure Map or a Visual Explorer or Creativity Collage) is typically a poster board on which you paste or collage images that you’ve torn out from various magazines. It’s simple.
The idea behind this is that when you surround yourself with images of who you want to become, what you want to have, where you want to live, or where you want to vacation, your life changes to match those images and those desires.
Here she describes how to create one.
This seems to me like a really great way to visualize who you want to become in 2008. There's something about putting out into the world your vision of yourself that can make great things happen for you. Might be a good way to spend your weekend.
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