For those who do not know what a Vision Board is...please allow me to briefly explain...
A Vision Board is a collage of pictures that depict ones dreams, goals and aspirations.
The purpose of a Vision Board is to create a mental and physical image of your goals...which in turn is supposed to assist in making them real...
I do not disagree with the fact that the first step in the success journey is "visioning" yet I find that many people create the Vision Boards and believe that that activity is sufficient and their dreams will magically come true!
Something just seemed to be lacking...
I have a Vision Board...I have had a Vision Board for years!
Many of the items on my Vision Board have become real...others have not!
The ones that are now real are those that I focused on and worked my hardest to achieve...
There are those that are still in process and I am working on...
AND...there are those that I am no closer to realizing than the day I paste the photo into the collage!
What is the difference?
It is quite apparent (because truth hides in "plain sight!")...the difference is work...or a cost!
It hit me as it does you! (An Epiphany of the Utterly Obvious or DUH!)
Dreams and Visions are cheap...in fact...they are free...but making them REAL often...if not always...has a cost!
This bothered me...
How can I reconcile a Vision Board to reality?
About a week ago...I was carrying the recycling from the kitchen to the bins.
In the armful of "green" trash" was a large jar.
As I walked I realized that I could make my Vision Board REAL!
What came from that epiphany was my Dream Jar!
I believe that the ability to "multi-task" is a deception that we try to live...
Life is about focus and prioritization...
We can only do one thing (with excellence) at a time...
Try Singing and Eating at the same time!
Enough of that!
The collage (by its very nature) is a set or consolidation of multiple goals. It is a "ToDo List"
Success comes from picking the most important thing and focusing on it and doing it well!
A Dream Jar...is goal specific...
One can have multiple Dream Jars...but the fact of the matter is...
You can only put specific coins (or whatever) in any single jar at a time. If you have a handful of coins...you can mete them across the set of jars that you have...
You get the picture...I am getting ahead of myself...
Let's go back to the Dream Jar!
I was lucky because the jar that I used has no label...and it was clear to me that a Dream Jar had to have its purpose clearly indicated on it...
I made this label...
I then slotted and glued the lid in place...
Why would I do that?
So that if I felt compelled to use the money in the jar for anything other than my dream...I would have to shatter the jar and that dream!
What goes in the Dream Jar...
In the case of my ocean-side dream...it would require a down-payment...so money goes in this jar!
But this does not always need to be the case...what goes in the jar is the actual stuff that makes the dream possible...SUBSTANCE!
At first I committed to putting only the coins that I find on the ground...
But in short order it began collecting all of my excess change!
Every day I see the dream getting closer and closer...it is amazing...
I need not belabor the point...but let's look at the difference between a Vision Board and a Dream Jar...one more time!
The Vision Board simply contains pictures of your goals...The commitment to the goal(s) are external to the exercise...
On the other hand...The Dream Jar goes the necessary distance! It contains the picture, but only one picture...AND that extra step is that it also contains the substance of action!
Dreaming and Visioning is OK...in fact it is a critical component of success...but it will always be ethereal...if there is no action (cost) behind the dreams and visions (picture(s)).
The difference is the ACTION...pure and simple!
Vision Boarders...consider taking your activity up a level with a Dream Jar...or for those with high aspirations...Dream Jars!
You will be surprised how quickly your activities become MORE focused on your dream!
Pura Vida!
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