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14.4 Action Boards
BY REPORTING TJ
Every now and then, often around New Year, you may find yourself
thinking about your resolutions. With time, however, some of us
quit making them because we never stick to them. That’s me. I
make them but then quickly forget what they were or lose focus.
Vision boards have been around forever but recently the “trend”
emerged to replace them by “Action Boards”.
Why the change? Well: Vision boards are based on the Law of
Attraction. The idea that your mode of thinking directly affects what
the universe gives you. So, cutting out pictures and writing down
positive affirmations can be beneficial and can help organize your
goals. But if your board is filled with fantasy, it can set you up for
failure. Some psychologists say instead of making a “Vision Board”
make an “Action Board”. If you ask me I think they are basically
the same thing. I mean, let’s be realistic just imagining you are
going to get that new bedroom set you’ve REALLY wanted isn’t
going to just poof magically appear in your bedroom. You have to
actually save the money for said bedroom set. So, if I look at the
bedroom set every day it’s a top of mind reminder that I don’t need
Starbucks, I can make my own coffee and put that $5.00 away to
save for that bedroom set. Makes Sense?
To make an action board you select images of things you want to
change, get or do, and paste them to the board. Next, you hang the
board somewhere you can see it all the time every day to keep your
goals top of mind.
Remember just having arts and crafts day at your house won’t help
make your dreams come true but it can help you visualize them.
Don’t make it super cluttered, I’ve seen vision boards with ALL
kinds of things on there. How can you focus on one goal at a time
with all that clutter?! You can’t. So post 4 or 5 pictures of things
and goals that are actually attainable.
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