Get Your Vision on!I decided this morning to spend some time creating a vision board. It’s been on my to-do list for over a year, but there just never seems to be enough time to take my nose from the grindstone and imagine what I want. It seemed “woo-woo”, and I had real work to do, dammit.  Today, though, I ran across the file with all the photos I’ve been saving for “someday” when I have the time to do the vision board. Feeling naughty — because I should have been sweating blood over my screenplay or even this blog — I gleefully grabbed a glue stick and just started in.

I went through all the photos and scraps I’d been collecting over the past year. Some were related to my aspiring Hollywood career, others to the home office I want to have, others to the book and business I want to build with my co-author around this blog, and still others to all the places I want to travel. What fun.

Up went a panel with a magazine listing of recent million-dollar screenplay sales (with my name pasted in), a cutout of the silver convertible I’d buy with the money, the clipping announcing a screenwriting prize I’d won (really),and a picture of a svelte woman lying by a palm-shaded swimming pool (definitely not me; I ‘ll have to paste my head on her body later).  I smiled.

Then the craziest thing happened. I had a whole new idea for a movie. I ran to my computer and began typing furiously. Three pages and only about 20 minutes later, I had a pretty detailed synopsis of the best idea I’ve had in months.  No banging my head on the keyboard, no compulsively checking the clock to see how long I’d forced myself to sit there, no guilt, no shoulds, and almost no real effort.

And it happened when I was cutting out pictures and pasting them in a collage like a third-grader while having fun imagining my idea outcome. Coincidence? I think not.  I stopped trying and started playing and enjoying myself, and the inspiration that had been eluding me came skipping in.

Lesson: Taking time out to visualize what you really want isn’t just not a waste of time…it may be the catalyst that lets you create exactly what you need, in a lot less time than you thought possible. Give it a try.

Activity: Gather supplies such as colored paper or board, glue stick, scissors, magazines and some good photo paper in your printer. Put on some music you love. Think of one of the ideal outcomes you’d want from one of your talents. Now create a collage that tells that story. Don’t worry if you don’t get an instant result…but don’t ignore it if you do!

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