How to Create Your Personal Dream Board - it will change your life!

GOAL-SETTING and GOAL-GETTING

This week our theme is all about goals - how to set them and how to get them!
 
Today we start with the all important first step which is to capture your dreams in an exciting and fun way.  Get ready to throw caution to the wind, believe anything is possible, and commit to changing your life in 2008.
 
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words!
 
Dream Board Fundamentals
To turbocharge your dreams you are in for a fun exercise.  Creation of your own personal dream board will provide incredible benefits for you.  First of all, what is a dream board?  It is a place to graphically represent your dreams in a powerful way to imprint your mind, will and emotions with a powerful image of your dreams.
 
So, go purchase a poster board or other heavy stock display board that you can mount photo’s, pictures, headlines and other fun depictions of your dreams.  Secondly, think about your dreams.  Last week, I suggested you develop a list of all the things you want to be, have and do.  From that list, prioritize and choose key dreams that you are really passionate about pursuing. 
 
Get Creative - Picture Your Future!
Now, go on a mad hunt of finding graphical resources that represent those priority dreams - taking your own photo’s, cutting out pictures from magazines, securing catalogs, printing off pictures from the Internet, and otherwise grab other graphical depictions of your top dreams wherever you can find them.  Perhaps a visit to a parade of homes, a new auto dealer’s lot, a university that you wish to attend, a business that you have your eye on purchasing, a hobby that you love to participate in, etc.
 
Now for the creative part - take those graphical resources and arrange them on your dream board in a collage type arrangement.  Add headlines, or other descriptors to embellish, explain, or enhance your dreams.  A true art projects for adults - cut, paste (well maybe glue), circle, highlight, arrange, etc.  Play with it, have fun with it, make it your own parade of dreams.
 
Now place this board in a place that you can view and study everyday.  Fast forward and visualize your life as if you have already achieved the dreams on your board, how does it feel, how does it look, how is your life changed.  This needs to become a habit of idealization - imagine a perfect future for your health, your business, your finances, your family, or any other area.  Your conscious mind can only hold one thought at a time, either positive or negative.  You may be capable of thinking hundreds of thoughts in a row, but you can only think of one thought at a time.  Therefore, pick thoughts that will help lead you to the actualization of your dreams.
  
**Step out in faith, create your dream board & let it be a catalyst to change your life**

DAILY PRAYER 
“A desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.” - Proverbs 13:19a  and
“But when the desire comes it is a tree of life.” - Proverbs 13.12b
 
Lord, please expand our dreams, align our dreams to your Word and will, and bless our dreams.  In Jesus name, Amen.
 
 
Today our focus has been on identifying your dreams, and powerfully displaying them to imprint and focus your thoughts on them.  Tomorrow we will talk about supersizing your goals, and then Wednesday will be about apprehending, proclaiming and obtaining!
 
Grace and peace multiplied to you,

Michael Stay
President
Core Impact, Inc