Inner Wisdom & Creativity Blog

If you’re anything like me, you envision those big, wonderful things you want to have or experience in your life and no matter what you do, those things still feel lightyears away. Are you with me?

In your day-to-day life, not much changes.

What’s the mis-match here?

What’s the conflict between where you currently are, and where you want to be?

Well, let’s consider that if we focus on that end result or outcome, we are definitely going to see how far we have to go to get to that place. It can leave us feeling disheartened and frustrated.

We can’t just jump from A to Z. We have to move from A to B to C to D…and so on.

This is about taking the next logical step in your life, that leads you to a better feeling place.

So here’s the magic pill (if such a thing exists)…

By all means have your big dreams, BUT, you are living your life TODAY and this is where you are currently at.

Think about what you do each day and ask yourself:
What can I do to improve my daily life right now?
How can I play a bit more?
How can I have a bit more fun?
What can I release from my life today?
What can I bring into my life?

In most cases we’re not talking ground-breaking changes, but small, effective and real-time changes that make some sort of improvement that makes us feel a bit better. What can you change right now that will improve your life?

Get real about it…maybe it’s time to give up that additional commitment that always feels like a chore to you? Maybe you can find a way to get all your mundane, regular tasks done on a single day, so you get it all done at once, like the grocery shopping and bill paying? Maybe you can declutter that one cupboard or corner of a room today?

Maybe you can meet your friend for a coffee and enjoy their company, laugh a bit and forget about all those “shoulds” that you’re usually focused on?

Perhaps you can sign up for that class that you’ve always wanted to do…no more excuses.

Happy, playful baby steps

We get overwhelmed when we focus on the big goal and our feeling of distance between now and then can keep us stuck where we are.

Instead, our intention should be movement, even baby steps, towards our bigger goal. And what is our bigger goal anyway?

It’s about having, doing or being something that makes us feel good!

Focus on that feeling and bring THAT into your daily life and before you know it, that big elusive goal (or something even better!) will be right in front of you!

I decided it was about time I created my vision board.

I’d been collecting words and images from magazines for a few months and had the vision board come to mind as a way to focus my energy.

I created 2 large vision boards earlier in 2009 but they were quite sparse and I kept them in my wardrobe out of the way.

This time I dragged out those 2 sheets of cardboard and decided to use the back of one for my new vision board. A splayed out my clippings and went through more Wellbeing and horoscope mags to find a few more things.

I really didn’t think I had much there but boy did it come together after having a break and coming back to it. So much so that I had to join the 2 sheets of cardboard together to create a MEGA vision board!

When I look at it, it feels so ‘whole’ and inspiring. It really represents me having my own energy focused this year in a positive way, no longer at the mercy of my whims and lack of clarity. I have big visions for this year and beyond!

Here’s some photos…

Donna's Vision Board for 2010

Top section of vision board

Middle section of vision board

Bottom section of vision board

I had a lot of spiritual and health things on my board but wanted to add money and feelings of abundance because it’s my big ‘allowing’ this year so I wanted it to feature. I then opened an old horoscopes magazine and found an image of Aussie notes fanned out. As I turned the pages there were more and more of these images used, making me feel like the abundance was flowing to me already! Yay!

May YOU have a powerful, abundant, inspired year!

If you have created a vision board for yourself I’d love to take a peek.

If you haven’t created one, it can be a powerful process to set your intentions for what you’d like to welcome into your life. It can be specific things or represent the types of things and feelings you want to invite into your life.