I love a good vision board. I also know a lot of people who've made one and then gone absolutely nowhere with it.
This week we pull the word manifestation apart, because we've bundled visualising, intention setting, affirmations and goal setting into one term and then wondered why the board on the wall changed nothing. You'll see what manifestation actually is, where a vision board really helps and where it leaves you stuck, and what Gabriele Oettingen's research says about why picturing the finished outcome can drain the very energy you'd need to chase it.
Then I walk you through exactly how I set intentions so the action is built in from the start, and the part almost everyone skips: the point where the lovely, controlled vision meets real life, and whether you've got the capacity to keep taking the next ordinary step when it stops feeling exciting.
In This Episode
Timestamps
00:00 The Spark
00:24 Intro
01:05 What Manifestation Actually Means
02:41 The Vision-Led Pathway
07:20 What a Vision Board Can & Can't Do
09:02 Why Picturing the Outcome Can Backfire
12:56 How I Set Intentions
17:33 What This Does in Your Brain
19:07 Why Writing It Once Isn't Enough
21:14 When the Vision Meets Real Life
22:59 Keep the Vision Board
25:14 Outro
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