10 Tips on Making Your Dream Board

A follow-up from my previous post “Got Your Dream Board?“…

Visualization is powerful. Many of the world’s wonderful inventions, ideas, and dreams that come true were, once upon a time, just sketched on paper!

Here are 10 of my tips in getting started on your very own Dream Board…

1. Spend some time dreaming about what you WANT to be, do and have in the near future. “Some time” can be subjective. It may take hours. It may take days. Heck, maybe longer. But this is YOUR dream so you decide how you want your lifestyle to be in the near future. As I’ve said before, it costs nothing to dream.

2. Going through the process, you might recall some discouraging words. It could be from your parents, your friends, your relatives, etc. telling you “it’s ridiculous” “it’s impossible” or anything else along those lines. That was exactly what everyone said when the Wright brothers attempted to build the first manned aircraft. They said that “humans can never fly”. Remember, no one but yourself can give you permission to encourage or discourage yourself.

3. Make the Dream Board visual. This is going to be the most exciting process. Put your dream on board by printing out and pasting pictures you found online. Alternatively, you can buy today’s newspaper and cut out images to paste on your Dream Board.

4. The more precise you are with details, the better. There is power in clarity. For example: you don’t just want ‘a new car’. Get down to the finer detail – what brand? What model? If you’re not clear yet or haven’t done enough research at this stage, you can always update your Dream Board later on. Don’t worry about being too perfect :-)

5. Since you’re going to dream – and it costs nothing to do that – you might as well dream BIG. It must be something intimidating and challenging. If it’s something too easy or you can actually do it today, then that’s not a dream. The purpose of doing your Dream Board is so you have a grand goal to focus your passion, energies and motives to so you can achieve your desired lifestyle.

6. Don’t be paralyzed by the possibilities of failure or doubting whether you can get there or not; if you feel afraid or intimidated by the magnitude of the goal then it’s natural. This means you’re growing. ;-) And it’s a goal worth pursuing!

7. Paste the Dream Board at a place you spend most of your time in the day. If you work from home then it makes sense to paste it near your workstation. If you’re working for someone else and for any reason you cannot put your Dream Board at your workplace, put it up in a place where you go to often at home e.g. near the dressing mirror, on the fridge door, etc.

8. Use colors. Keep the Dream Board interesting – don’t just stick to two colors!

9. If you want some ideas on how to begin, explore the following questions: “Where do I want to go?” “What do I want to be?” “What do I want to have?”

10. Your dreams don’t have to be money-oriented or necessarily materialistic. It can be a skill you want to acquire, someone you want to be, a mission you want to uphold. :-)

You Can Do It… And Remember, Don’t Let Other People Snatch Your Dreams Away!

P.S. Happy New Year in advance btw :-)

About Edmund Loh

The PLR Extraordinaire.
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2 Responses to 10 Tips on Making Your Dream Board

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  2. Deanne says:

    Thank you so much for this post!
    I have bookmarked this page and will reference often.

    Thank you,
    Deanna

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