In this video I'm going to share with you, step by step, how I made my digital vision board for 2021.
Hi this is Supreet, I'm an engineer turned leadership trainer. I upload weekly videos about
personal growth, meditation and occasionally, parenting. The first and most important step
for me was to figure out exactly what i want to achieve in 2021, and why it is important to me.
for any goal, the biggest reason determining your success is your why behind the goal,
not your what or your how. so i started with my why. i then followed the three steps to make a
vision board that i shared in this video. the link is in the description or you can find it
by clicking on the i at the top. step one was to get clear about your goals. moving on to step two,
and then i collected some pictures for my vision board from a stock photo service that i pay for.
i went to canva.com which is a free online tool. i clicked on "create a design"
and out of the various design choices available, i selected poster. then on the top left corner,
i clicked on uploads where i had already uploaded my selected pictures onto canva.
the first picture i am using is of this woman doing the full bridge pose. i want to be able
to do this in 2021. this is an ambitious goal for me because right now i am nowhere near being able
to do this. i do not have the strength, and especially the upper body strength,
to do the full bridge pose. i can lift my hips up in the air but i can lift up my shoulders
barely a couple of inches as you can see. the second picture is of this woman meditating.
i selected this picture for two reasons. the first one is to remind me to meditate every day
and the second one is that if you look closely, she's sitting in the full lotus position. i want
to be able to sit like this and currently if i try to sit in that position, this is what happens!
i do not have the flexibility in my hips to sit like the woman in the picture.
this picture is to remind me to wake up at five every morning.
this picture is to remind me to journal every morning. these two things - waking up at five and
journaling (while having my green tea) are things that i've already been doing for the last four
months but i still put them on my vision board because i want to make sure that i continue to
do those in 2021. my next goal for 2021 is to eat healthy vegetarian food. for that reason,
i selected these pictures of some very colorful and nutritious looking vibrant vegetarian food.
i am currently about 95% vegetarian but in 2021, i want to become a full vegetarian.
in addition to eating healthy, i also want to eat mindfully. that's the reason why i selected
this picture it is from a blog by vidhi rita p. i love the words on this picture. it says
"i am grateful for this meal in front of me. this meal is extremely nutritious for me
and it heals my body". i want to be able to say this or think this before i
eat my meals. also i want to eat more mindfully without distractions like my phone or the tv.
now i'm going to the vision board folder on my pc where i had collected all these stock
pictures. and also i have a text document which has the text that i wanted to add to my vision
board. going back to canva, i am now going to add the text to represent my youtube goals for 2021.
first i thought of maybe saying something like 20k subscribers or 50k subscribers,
but then i very quickly changed my mind because i want to have goals that are within my control.
the number of subscribers or views on youtube are not under my control. but what is in my control
is to create excellent content. for that reason, i chose to say that in 2021
i'm going to create 30 videos that i'm proud of, and also i'm going to create two online courses.
right now i'm not sure of the topic of the online courses i will make. i'm thinking maybe one on
public speaking and one on something else. let me know in the comments below which topics you
would like me to create online courses for. and now in the middle of the vision board,
i'm going to write my why behind creating youtube videos, which is to transform lives,
to help people grow. and also i want to actively work on making people laugh. it gives me immense
joy when i can make people laugh. by the way, if i were to ever get a tattoo, not that i'm
planning to anytime soon, but if i ever did, it would say "transform lives". it is my calling,
it is my purpose in life and that's why i put it in the middle of my vision board in bold.
the reason i chose to make 30 videos instead of 52 videos in the 52 weeks of
2021, is that i want to focus on quality over quantity as far as videos are concerned. now
i'm going back to my word document where i have collected two quotes by tony robbins.
and i'm going to copy and paste the first one and put it at the bottom of my vision board. i know
that right now as i'm making the vision board, i'm excited and motivated and energized but i know
there are going to be days where i don't feel so motivated, when i feel self-doubt and i feel that
i can't do these things and i want to give up. so for days like those, this quote should help me
to find that inspiration again, and do these things even when they seem very hard. it says
"the only thing that's keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling
yourself". isn't that the truth? by the way, this would be another great line to tattoo on myself
but... too many words, too much pain, so i think i'll stick with "transform lives". i chose to not
add the second quote by tony robbins because as you can see, my vision board is already quite full
and i do not want to clutter it up too much. as i mentioned in my last week's video where i talk
about three easy steps to make your vision board and also how to use your vision board, you do not
want to have a cluttered vision board because it's distracting and hard to focus. so it's better to
keep it clean and simple. i'm adding this text "21 minutes" on top of the meditation picture
to make my goal of meditation more specific, and to remind myself that i want to meditate
for 21 minutes every day, not just two minutes or five minutes a day like i sometimes tend to do.
and now i'm adding this text 2021 because this vision board is for 2021.
if you haven't watched my last week's video about how to make and use a vision board,
please watch it because if you're doing all this effort to make your vision board,
i want to set you up for success. vision boards can and do fail. so make sure you
know all the do's and don'ts, so that your vision board will actually work for you.
also in next week's video, i'm going to talk about why 80 percent of new year resolutions
fail by february and what you can do to succeed. so make sure that you don't miss that video.
if you haven't already, subscribe and hit the notification bell for my channel so that you don't
miss that video. because these three videos - the one you're watching right now, last week's video
about how to make a vision board, and next week's video about why new year resolutions fail - these
three videos are like a three-part series and they have all the research-proven tools and techniques
to set you up for success with your goals in the new year. also, if you're getting value from this
video make sure to give it a thumbs up! one thing to note is that i use stock images that i pay for
only because i'm sharing them online and i do not want to get into any copyright issues. but if
you're using your pictures for personal purposes only, you can use any pictures that you find on
the internet you don't have to pay for them. i also had some text in my word document about
going on a vacation because i haven't been on one in like 11 months and i'm so desperate to go on a
vacation! and also i want to meet my mom and my sister in 2021 because i haven't met them for
such a long time because of covid. but the reason i chose not to add that text in my vision board,
is that a) i don't want to clutter it up too much and b) i feel like those things are going
to happen anyway, as soon as it is safe to do. on my vision board i have those things
which i think that i might forget or i might make excuses for. the bloopers are coming up
very soon so enjoy them and keep growing! so this is the final product! what do you think?
if you have any suggestions for improvement, do let me know! are you going to make your own
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