Achieving Your Goals – How You Can Use an Attraction Board to Achieve Your Goals

How can you attract what you want? Both skeptics and people who believe in the Law of Attraction ask themselves this question. The first step is to know what your goals are and make a list of them. If you don’t know exactly what it is that you want then you won’t make much progress.

Look into the different areas of life such as health, relationships, wealth, family, spirituality. Be as specific as possible. For example, if you want to create more spare time so that you can travel or spend time with family then what would you do? Would you go out to the park with your children, would you take them on a trip to Disneyland?

If you want to be wealthy, how do you define wealth? Is it owning a new house, having money in the bank, donating money regularly to your favorite charities, going on an exotic holiday? Write all this down.

As important as it is to write down your goals, sometimes words aren’t enough, and sometimes it’s hard to visualize on your own. It’s important to be able to visualize your goals because this helps you tap into how it will feel to actually achieve them. This is why it helps to have a visual aid. I recommend creating an “Attraction Board” or, as it’s sometimes called, a “Vision Board.” The more vividly you can picture your goals, the more likely it is that you will achieve them.

A Vision Board is a collection of images of all that you would like to own, do and become. You glue these images on poster board or cardboard. You can also purchase computer software that is designed to help you create a Vision Board on your computer. You can use a computer generated Vision Board as a screen saver or desktop background. Looking at your Vision Board on a daily basis will help you visualize and focus on your dreams and goals.

A Vision Board helps you feed your subconscious mind with the goals you want to achieve. It’s like placing an order, so to speak. When you look at your Vision Board, summon forth the feeling as if you have already achieved this goal. See and feel yourself in the position of having achieved those goals. Notice how this feels. This “as if” feeling will help you turn your goals into your reality because it will motivate you to take action.

If you are a left-brained thinker like I am and this type of thinking doesn’t come naturally then a Vision Board will be especially helpful, as it will get your right brain involved in the process of goal-setting. If you are already a right-brained, creative type then this will be right up your alley.

So to create your Attraction Board, do the following:

1.Gather together a large pile of your favorite glossy magazines. If you don’t have many magazines in your house, libraries often have a large pile of magazine discards that are free for the taking. Used bookstores also sell back issues of magazines very inexpensively.

2.Go through these magazines and snip out headlines, words and images that relate to your goals.

3.For example, if your goal is to retire at age 55 and lead an active life, you could clip out a photo of a couple walking on a beach. If your goal is to travel to certain countries in a certain time frame, clip out photos of those countries.

4.Get a large poster board or piece of paper and paste the clippings on in a way that distinguishes each goal from the other.

5.Fill up the entire board and hang it up where you and other can see it.

6.For further impact, scan key pictures related to your goals, put them in a folder, and direct your computer to use this folder as a screen saver. See these images coming up repeatedly on your computer when idle – you will be amazed at how this repeated visualization helps you achieve your biggest goals.

7.Sit down with your Attraction Board once a year as you revisit your goals.

8.Every three years make another Attraction Board. You’ll be amazed at all you achieve, especially when you look back at your previous Attraction Boards.

For additional fun, make an Attraction Board with co-workers and/or your family. You can make individual Attraction Boards or you can even make a shared attraction board as a group if all of you are working toward a common goal or project. When you look at the photos on your Attraction Board it suddenly makes your goals seem real. After all, if you can visualize something, you can achieve it!

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