The Wish Board is a graphic technique that helps to realize, concretize and visualize your desires and goals.
What will the wish board help with?
- Specify your wishes. To achieve a goal, you need to understand and clearly see your goal. Vague desires such as "I want a lot of money" cannot lead to results.
- Visualize your desires. For our brain, there is practically no difference between a real action and its imaginary reproduction. Many experiments prove this. For example, when a person runs and when he imagines that he is running, the same muscles contract at the same intervals. A group of basketball players who practiced for a certain amount of time on the court and a group who practiced for the same amount of time mentally showed almost identical improvements, 24% and 23%, respectively, while the group who did not practice either on the court or mentally did not showed no improvement.
- Keep your focus on your desires. The Desire Board will always remind you of your desires and goals, help you visualize and achieve them.
What you will need
✓ Whatman, magnetic or cork board to choose from✓ Paper tape✓ Glue, magnets or buttons, depending on the choice of board material✓ Colored markers✓ Magazines on various topics (travel, sports, business)✓ Your imagination!⏱ Minimum 60 minutes
Instruction
- Identify the categories of desires and mark their positions on the board. Make an exemplary markup of your board according to the categories of your wishes. It can be love, family, career, knowledge, travel, wealth, etc. Marking can be arbitrary, made by eye, allocate more space on your board for the category that is more important to you.
- Write wish lists for each category. Take a piece of paper and write all the wishes in each category in a column. Be extremely honest with yourself. Write very specific wishes, use numbers, percentages, centimeters, etc. Do not write abstractly, our brain does not like abstractions, it cannot concentrate and remember them. Do not write, I "want a lot of money", write how much money you want in a month or a year, the exact amount is required. It should look something like this: "I want to receive a salary of $ 2000 every month", "I want to lose 3 kg and weigh 50 kg", "I want a guy, a brunette who does boxing, reads every night, plays the guitar and tap dances".
- Ask the question "Why?" for your every wish. Sometimes our desires are only the tip of the iceberg behind which our real needs and problems are hidden. For example, wanting a boyfriend who does boxing, you actually want someone to protect you from an abuser. Or saying you want a big house, you really want another child or a dog. Ask yourself "Why do I want a new car?", "Why do I want a mink coat?", "Why do I want to go to Paris?". Think carefully and write the answers to all your "why" against each desire. Be honest with yourself.
- Adjust your wish list. If your desire turned out to be deeper or completely different, correct it in the list.
- Choose pictures that describe your desires. Choose pictures carefully, they should please and make you dream. Pictures can be from magazines, printed photos from the Internet or drawn by hand. After looking at the picture, you should immediately begin to imagine the result of your desires and what feelings you will feel at the same time. "This is how my figure will become, and I will feel free and comfortable in short shorts", "I will write and publish my book, I will feel that I have left a mark in this life." The sizes of the pictures can be different, choose large pictures for wishes that are more important to you. Attach the pictures to the board, using glue, buttons or magnets, depending on the type of board you have.
- Sign the pictures. You can sign pictures with markers of different colors on paper tape. Scotch tape can be glued on top of pictures. The font should be legible and visible from the distance from which you will be looking at your board. It is mandatory to sign the pictures. Captions should complement the image. Use the wish list, write numbers, percentages, centimeters, etc. After looking at the wish board, you should immediately recall your list and your "why" answers in your memory. Be sure to write the term of this board. Usually boards are made for a year, in this case, write the year in very large numbers in the center or on top of the board. You can choose your term, it can be a month, six months, etc.
How to use a wish board
- Hang the Wish Board in a prominent place. It should be a place where you spend a lot of time. Good Desire will be the first thing you see when you wake up and the last thing you see when you fall asleep. It can be a workplace or a place near the computer.
- Visualize your desires as often as possible. To visualize means to feel the situation, and not just imagine a picture in your head. Choose one picture on the Wish Board, read the caption to it, close your eyes and imagine that it has come true. Use all five senses: sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. For example, you chose the desire to "lose weight by 5 kg". Draw a picture in your head, fill it with details, smells, sounds, preferences, make it realistic. example. “It's a sunny summer day, an early weekend morning. You just woke up in a great mood, because you slept well, and you were woken up by the birds singing. You go to wash yourself, enter the bathroom, and for a moment think about which shower gel you should choose from the two new ones today. You sniff the first one and feel the smell of vanilla, inhale the second one, and the smell of freshness fills you. After thinking about the smells, you get on the scale and "Oh, miracle!", your dream came true, you lost five kilograms! You look at yourself in the mirror and see the ideal you have been striving for. It's not even clear how you didn't notice it before. You take a shower in a hurry, because you can't keep yourself at home. You really want to go out in a dress that emphasizes your figure. You call your friends, schedule an emergency meeting, and jump out into the street, shining brighter than the sun." etc. To visualize a desire is to imagine and feel as if your desire has already come true. I recommend choosing one wish in the morning and one in the evening for visualization. Can be visualized using the freewriting method.
Deep study of the map of desires
For a detailed explanation of how to create a wish map based on your values and train your focus to make your wishes come true, see the mini-course "Wish Board" at our Happypeople.scool school. The first videos are free, and the promo code wish will give you a discount of 290 rubles. To use the promotional code, copy it and paste it into the appropriate field during checkout.