If you want to achieve your goals and manifest your dreams in the New Year, spend some time during the first week visualizing the next twelve months. In this way you can "create" it. Focus attention on what you want regularly, and then take inspired and purposeful action related to bringing your goals and dreams into reality.
You can use a variety of tools, such as writing goals, writing a vision and making vision boards or vision map. While it's most powerful to do this on New Year's Eve, it's not to late to for you to implement these tools now.
Let's start with vision boards, also called vision maps because they map out where you want to go during the year or end up by year's end.
Basically, a vision board is a visual representation of what you want to create during the year or during any period of time. The pictures are supposed to elicit a thought of what you want to create accompanied by a feeling of having it. The fact that the picture shows someone having what you desire or the state of having it gets you to that feeling place. You imagine yourself in that picture. The picture basically represents you.
When completed, a vision map looks like a collage of all the pictures you've pasted onto a piece of sturdy paper or poster board that represent what you want to create--a published book, a new job, a better relationship with your spouse, a balance between personal life and professional life, a trimmer body, time for your family, more friends. Yes--you can include all aspects of your life, or you can make a vision map of just your professional or personal life.
When you create a vision map, you can include not just pictures but words as well, such as inspirational sayings.
To create a vision board, gather all your old magazines and start looking through them for photos and sayings that strike your fancy--ones that depict what you want to create or make you feel the way you want to feel. Cut them out. When you have a big pile of them, start arranging them on your poster board. You can group pictures by subject area if you like; consider placing one photo in the middle to represents your theme for the year. Once you've designed the board, get some glue and start pasting it all down. Viola! You've created your vision map.
Now place it somewhere you will see it often. That's the point...look at it every day. Feel what it would be like to have what you want. Imagine it! Enjoy the thought of having what you want. Then go take action toward creating it.
The more you do this, the higher the likelihood of you actually bringing your goals into reality. There are people who have put a photo of a dream house on a vision map years earlier--just as a symbol of the house of their dreams--and then one day brought the old vision map out of a box they'd packed away only to discover they actually had purchased that exact house. This can be a very powerful exercise if you use it daily or at least regularly.
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