What's up guys?
It’s Aileen.
Welcome back to my channel, Lavendaire.
Today we're going to be doing something really fun:
I'm going to show you how to make a vision board.
If you don't know what it is,
a vision board is basically a board of visual inspiration for your dream life.
It's basically images, quotes that inspire you, and just everything
that you want to invite into your life, you put it on your vision board.
I'm going to share different ways you can create a vision board
and then I'm going to share a bonus exercise you can do called "Current Me vs. Future Me"
and that was a little vision exercise that I created myself
that I think would be really fun for you guys to do as well.
Also: make sure you stick to the end of the video
because I'm going to be doing a giveaway and all the instructions are at the end.
It's up to you how you want to do your vision board.
You can do it digitally or traditionally.
I created my first vision board in 2014.
This was done digitally.
What I did was I went on Pinterest and I collected all of the images that I really liked,
all the images and quotes that inspired me and basically I arranged it all on Photoshop,
had it printed, and then framed it.
That actually took a lot of work to just do it digitally
so today I wanted to try to do it the old-fashioned way with magazine cut-outs and paper.
Both ways are great as long as you have some sort of board like a physical,
visual board that you can look at every day.
I think that's what matters.
So let's get started.
[Music: Summer Dreaming by Mizu]
Another exercise that I really wanted to share with you guys is something that I’m calling
"Current Me vs. Future Me".
I started doing this in 2012.
You can see my notebooks and basically I've done this vision exercise every year since
then.
I have this one, and then the next year I had another one,
and then the next year I had another one, and then 2015 I had another one.
I haven't made one for 2016 so I think it'd be cool to do it today.
The way that it works is you draw your current self on one end
and I literally drew myself as how I looked that day, like what I wore.
You paint the picture of the thoughts, emotions, and whatever you're going through at that
time.
So I was going through really tough times in 2012.
I was lost, my thinking was messy.
I basically was going through my last semester of college.
I was so depressed,
I had so much pressure to get a job.
I don't know, I was just not in a good state.
I had insomnia.
I was really, really flaky with friends because I had trouble waking up every day.
I just couldn't wake up, and I would have lunch meetings and I would sleep through them.
I'd feel so bad I would stand my friends up.
Basically that was the picture of
what I looked like March 2012.
And then I drew myself as what I wanted to look like.
I drew my ideal me, the me I aspired to be.
Basically I'm happy,
I'm healthy, balanced, successful.
I'm confident, I understand me and my purpose.
Finally in my life I am punctual and responsible, basically envisioning how I want to be
in my ideal future.
I did this exercise each year since 2012, and it's been really encouraging and motivating
to see how I've changed and how my life,
and my thoughts and emotions have really shifted to the more positive direction.
It's just really cool to see how the Current Me in the more recent years
really resembles the ideal Future Me that I originally drew in 2012.
Literally, now when I look back on those old drawings,
I feel like my life is almost basically like this.
I'm on my way to being that happy,
positive self that I've always wanted to be.
[Music: Surf's Up by Osmoji]
Alright I hope you guys liked those exercises today: how to make a vision board
and how to do the Current Me vs. Future Me vision exercise.
Tell me which one you liked best
and if you guys are going to try it out, please take a photo of it
and tag me on Instagram at @lavendaire.
I'd love to see.
Really, it inspires me so much when I see you guys actually creating these things that
I share
and it's so awesome.
So now is time to talk about the giveaway.
I thought it would be fun to do a mid-year giveaway in June
because I did my last big one in December for a holiday giveaway.
This June I'm going to be giving away these prizes to six winners.
To enter the giveaway, what you have to do is you have to head over to my podcast on
iTunes.
Listen to one episode if you haven't listened to my podcast already
and what I need is for you guys to write a review on iTunes.
I've really been asking for this so much but it's so important to me.
So if you enjoy my podcast, please write a review on iTunes
and once you’re done writing a review, screenshot your review
and email it to submissions [at] lavendaire [dot] com.
In the subject, you can put "Review"
and I will be sure to look at it and I'll be very, very thankful for all your honest
reviews.
I really want you to be honest.
But what I just need is more reviews on iTunes to help me out.
So that's it, that's how you enter: basically write a review, screenshot it, send it to
me,
and then you're entered in the giveaway.
I'll post the winners in the first week of July
when I come back from traveling.
I'm kind of going to be MIA for the next couple weeks
but when I'm back I will post the winners and send out the giveaway prizes and yeah,
that's it!
Thank you guys so much for watching.
Make sure to subscribe, like, comment as usual,
and I will see you guys next time.
Bye!