Creating vision boards are a fun and easy way to get creative with your dreams! It’s powerful to surround yourself with images and positive words to help you stay aligned with your goals and keep your attention on your intention.
You can’t claim it if you don’t name it!
Vision boards are potent reminders of what our values and priorities are. This exercise is a one-and-done to help you really figure out your priorities.
Before starting this journey, you should be very clear an exactly what your intention is. It’s easier to rise to a challenge when you understand exactly why you want to reach those goals. What is your why? My why is quite simple. We want to be around a long time for my child and husband. I want to keep all my origin body parts. I want to get older and not have any health problems. I want to age gracefully and not be on tons of medications. I want to get older and just feel good about myself. Yep, that’s all there is to it.
What’s your Why? What led you to reading these very words at this exact moment in your life? Does high cholesterol run in your family? Do you want to feel more energy to keep up with your children? Is there a favorite pair of jeans you’d like to wear again? Do you feel like a sleepwalker in your own life and long to be more present, to feel more joy? If your why is large enough, the how will take care of itself. Let your vision board reveal your why (and your mantra).
How to Make a Vision Board
- Gather your materials. You’ll need some heavy stock paper or poster board, scissors, a glue stick, and a few magazines you can cut images and quotes from. I love Oprah, Better Homes & Garden, Real Simple, and Yoga Journal for my vision boards. You can use postcards, quotes, photographs-the sky’s the limit!
- Set the mood. You can vision alone or make it a date with your family or girlfriends. We like to pour a glass of wine and find enough room to really spread out.
- Flip through the magazines and tear out pages with images or words that resonate with you. It’s fine if you don’t even exactly understand why you are called to a certain picture or quote. The Universe may be whispering something you cannot hear yet.
- Go through the images and words and begin to lay your favorites on the paper or poster board. Eliminate any images that no longer feel right. Trust your instinct here! Don’t glue anything down until the board feels “right”.
- Hang your vision board where you can see it every day.
You can make another vision board anytime you’d like. I generally make a few every year.
Baked Summer Squash
Serves 6
2 pounds summer squash (such as zucchini, pattypan squash, yellow crookneck squash)
1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/3 cup bread crumbs
1/2 teaspoon flaked salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Remove the stem ends and slice the squash cross-wise in 1/4-inch-thick rounds. Toss with the olive oil.
In a small bowl, combine the bread crumbs, Parmesan, salt and pepper. Arrange the squash rounds in a 9-x12-inch rectangular baking dish, or 10-inch pie plate. Sprinkle the bread crumb mixture over.
Cover the baking dish with foil and bake in the oven for 30 minutes. Remove foil and bake another five minutes until the top is bubbling and crispy.
