Visualize your Dreams
Since I’m such a visual person, I have decided to take a very visual approach to achieving my goals.
I created a goal board.
Being the manager of a sign shop, I have certain perks that include dibs on leftover signs. I just happened to find one nice 4′ wide by 3′ tall sign, which I proceeded to strip down to a nice blank slate. I hung it on my wall so I could tape up whatever tickles my goal fancy without hurting the paint.
I cracked open a new box of Crayolas and went to town, then promptly stuck my large poster onto the sign to showcase my goals for November.
- Put the goals up on the wall!
- Clean up the apartment. (Every nook and cranny of it.)
- Sell the stuff I don’t use.
- Clean the car out. (Every nook and cranny of it.)
- Go to the driving range at least once.
- Cut down eating out to once a week or less.
- Back up the computers.
- Enroll in a class for spring.
- Spend $500 or less on Thanksgiving vacation.
It’s harder to forget the goals when they’re right there to greet you every morning on your way to the kitchen.
Should you want to create your own goal board, call your local sign shop and ask them for a large piece of Coroplast. It’s a nice inexpensive plastic that looks like cardboard. Ask them to grommet the corners — that means they’ll add metal-reinforced holes so it’s super easy to hang. Don’t pay more than $15.
If you can’t find someone who will sell it at a reasonable price, you can either call up a plastic supply company directly to buy the Coroplast, or you can get creative and use another material. Posterboard hung with sticky-tack would be just about as effective. I just wanted something huge that I could change quite frequently.
Even my big ole billboard will become invisible to me if I don’t mix it up every week or two. This weekend I plan to seek out pictures of goals — like mountains, where I want to live, and a beautiful house — and post them up as well.
I plan to call the previously barren beige wall my Wall of Dreams.
