Why Vision Boards Fail? Avoid 7 Common Mistakes That Others Make!
You have been inspired at the idea of creating vision boards after watching the movie, The Secret.
In fact, you may have Already created one by now.
You have spent an entire afternoon looking, cutting and pasting the pictures onto your board. They are pictures that represent what you want in a desired lifestyle. In a riot of colours, star stickers and glitter, it’s like a work of art – your masterpiece vision board.
Yet, since then……you have not managed to manifest any of your desires…..and you are beginning to doubt the idea about creating vision boards in the first place.
Well, I would like to introduce you to Charlie….
(Image Credit: Min, my daughter, drew the character of the confused guy “Charlie”.)
On Charlie’s vision board, he had the following pictures: the dream car, the beautiful house by the beach, the lovely designer bags, the holiday in The Caribbean and a gorgeous looking person (who looks some famous Hollywood star) as a partner. After two hours or so during a weekend afternoon, he had completed his board. At first, Charlie felt happy that he had done his part.
“My vision board is the window to my dream life coming true.”
25 Labels in Your Negative Self Talk
Labels used in negative self talk can restrict you from being your fullest potential. They are the names you mentally call yourself in your head. Unfavourable outcomes result when you identify who you are with these labels.
Labels can be positive or negative. While it helps to use labels for describing something, they can also be rather restrictive. By identifying yourself with them, whether positive or negative, you prevent yourself from discovering your true essence. Still, it is the labels in negative self talk that create the most problems for us.
How To Develop Courage By Overcoming Daily Fears
If you wish to develop courage, please know that it does not merely involve performing heroic acts such as rescuing a child from a burning apartment or putting our lives on the line to do rescue work in the aftermath of a natural disaster in a developing country. Hence, you do not have to wait for a catastrophe or a dramatic event to occur in order to demonstrate courage. Where there is fear on a daily basis, there are opportunities for you to practice it.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage is needed whenever you are feeling helpless, vulnerable, ashamed, and weak. You leak energy. Your negative emotions are really indications that you are experiencing fear. Instead of drowning in these, use them as feedback on the need to develop courage.
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30 Reasons Why You Need to Build Self-Confidence
On a scale of 1-10, how much self confidence would you say that you have? You rate 1 if you have extremely low self-confidence and 10 if you have high self confidence. Avoid putting too much thinking into the rating process, the score should come up intuitively.
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”- Norman Vincent Peale
There are many everyday signs of low self confidence. It happens when you have little trust, cannot make decisions on your own and are constantly caught in a sense of helplessness. Invariably, your attitude towards life is poor.
Should your self confidence be low, it shows up in your awkwardness in social settings. You may constantly look at the ground, quiver in anxiety and keep apologising for yourself in front of others. One client who came to see me last week about her low self-confidence kept shaking and shifting her legs nervously for a whole one hour.
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Law of Attraction Quotes – Thanksgiving Tribute
We do not celebrate Thanksgiving with a public holiday in Singapore during this time of the year. Nonetheless, I would like to take the opportunity to express thanks to one special person – Jerry Hicks. He has passed on. This post is a special thanksgiving tribute to him!
(Photo credit: Min, my daughter, depicting what the Law of Attraction is about in her drawing dated Feb 2011).
I first got to know about Jerry Hicks after watching “The Secret behind the Secret” in a DVD that we purchased from Amazon. However, it was the movie “The Secret” which caught my interest when I first viewed it. By then, I had already started gaining an interest and knowledge in energy mechanics.
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5 Life Areas of Self-Sabotage
Self-sabotage is an unconscious subversion, disruption or obstruction to hinder your own cause or endeavour. You consciously have a desired outcome but you work against yourself unconsciously. And hence, you have been putting obstacles in your own path to success.
“Self-sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn’t happen.”
– Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby
Through words, actions or behaviour, you make things worse instead of better. Instead of becoming the best you can be or having the best that you can have, you eventually find yourself having to settle for less. It is certainly not desirable if you are hoping to live life fully.
Love Myself Poem by Charlie Chaplin
A beautiful self-love poem has apparently been written by Charlie Chaplin who composed it for his 70th birthday (April 16, 1959). Well, at least that is what a google search revealed. It is exceptional because there are not many poems written about loving the self and in my opinion, contains much wisdom.
Here’s how Chaplin’s “love myself poem” goes….
As I Began to Love Myself – Self Love Poem
As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering
are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth.
Today, I know, this is “AUTHENTICITY”.
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How to Overcome 5 Negative Self Talk Patterns
As I have discovered, getting caught in a negative self talk pattern can be crippling. I found out how low my self-love was after becoming more aware of what I was saying to myself. It was shocking for me to realise that I was mostly in fear, shame and anger and how it had resulted in feelings of depression, exhaustion and depletion of energy.
(From My Art journal: Self Talk Painting)
Fortunately, once I created the awareness, I had been able to change my self-talk to a more positive one.
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Self Love Story: Lessons From the Heart
My self love story first arose from lessons in relationships. The inability to experience love outside myself eventually led to a search from within. It’s going to take me courage to share more details about my life experiences. However, for some reason, the twinkling stars from beyond the cosmos seem aligned today. I have decided to proceed with publishing my self love story. So here goes…
(Taken from My Art Journal: Be the Author of A Compelling Self Love Story)
For a long time, I sought for love everywhere else other than from the inside. I had no awareness about what it meant to love myself back then. Brought up on a diet of fairy tales, I was seriously hoping to ride into the sunset with the One, happily married ever after. Obviously, my dreams never quite materialised in the way I was expecting them to.
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37 Abundance Affirmations To Manifest Your Dreams
Abundance affirmations are positive sayings that you can repeat like a mantra on a daily basis. Repeating abundance affirmations helps you to engage in positive states. They are also statements of intentions for attracting your dreams.
For your convenience, I am publishing a video with a list of 37 abundance affirmations. Simply play the video and repeat the words as they come up….