- Creating a vision board can be a really powerful way
for you to build and attract the life you desire.
And I'm going to show you step by step, exactly
how you can create a vision board that will work for you.
Let me tell you my own vision board story.
Some years ago, I'd written a book on weight loss,
and I couldn't get it published.
So I found a literary agent, but in the meantime,
I was so bored with waiting, I thought
'You know what, I'm going to do what Wayne Dyer did,
'create my own audience and self-publish this book.'
And I'd actually decided to do weight loss road shows.
And I created one,
I put it on and it didn't sell any tickets.
Well about 10 tickets.
And I canceled it, and the same day I canceled,
my new agent called and said,
"Hey, that thing you were doing at the weekend,
I've got HarperCollins coming and Penguin,
and all these publishers."
I'm like, "Oh my God, I canceled it."
She said, "Put it back on, they're all coming."
I'm like, "Right, okay."
So I immediately put this course back on,
let the people know that I was still doing it.
Rang around everyone, gave away free tickets.
And then I had a choice.
Should I sit down tonight and plan out my course?
No. I created a vision board with something like that,
and I put on all these pictures of my book
being a bestseller.
I took the Sunday Times bestseller list,
and stuck it on there and put my book at the top.
I wrote all over it, Marisa Peer's book is the bestseller.
Everyone wants to sign this book.
And I spent ages doing my vision board and it was all ready
to go and the next day, I turned up,
and I did my talk with no preparation.
And when I finished, I had Google, and Penguin
and HarperCollins all lining up saying,
"Oh, we so want to sign your book."
And I signed it, and I got way more money, triple.
Maybe even more than I ever imagined I could get.
And I still had that vision board and I was so thrilled
with it, I went home and I thought, let me add some stuff.
So I put on a picture of somebody
with a Tiffany ring behind their back.
I put a picture of a beautiful wedding.
I put a picture of a hot air balloon over Egypt, a cruise.
And I wrote lots of things on it.
Like "Marisa Peer is the best therapist in the world."
I put it above my bed, and you know what?
Almost every single thing on that board came true.
I was engaged and married, 10 months later,
I did take a hot air balloon right
over the pyramids in Egypt, it was so romantic.
I've been on several cruises.
Everything on that board came true.
And so today I want you to have a vision board.
Why do I want you to have one so much?
Well, I want you to have one because they work.
Why do they work?
Well, you see, whatever you focus on, you get more of,
if you have a needle put in your arm and you look at it,
you go, "Oh, it really hurts."
But if you don't look, you focus less.
When you focus on eating food blindfolded, it tastes better.
Whatever you focus on, it increases and a vision board
trains your mind to focus on what you want
with an absolute belief, 'I'm getting it.'
The pictures make you think, 'I am achieving it.'
There was a study that showed the brain patterns
of weightlifters lifting heavy weights were almost identical
when they lifted the weights,
and when they visualize lifting the weights.
When I used to do yoga, we'd do a yoga exercise,
then we'd close our eyes and visualize
doing that same exercise, but being more flexible,
you know what happened?
Our flexibility increased.
Let me show you what happens when you visualize.
Put your arm out like that.
I'm using my left arm, use your right one,
and just swing your left arm behind you
as far as it will go.
See I'm pushing mine really to the limit, do it with me,
push your arm behind you, bring it back,
close your eyes and visualize your arm going much further
with your eyes closed.
Say to yourself, 'My arm is super flexible.
'All these muscles and tendons and ligaments are so flexible.
'I'm like a bendy doll, I'm like a gymnast.'
And now say to your arm, 'Go a third further.
'You are super flexible.'
Say it, say it again, 'Go a third further,
'you're super flexible,' and now swing your arm back
and see what happens.
Your arm will go way, way, way further
simply because you saw it happening.
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of your subconscious mind to let go of negative beliefs,
I recommend you watch my masterclass, my free masterclass,
which is linked in the description below.
So that thing with your arm is just showing you
that when you visualize, you actually make something real,
you visualized your arm being more flexible,
and you made that real.
If you visualize eating a lemon, you make saliva.
So when you make a mood board,
all kinds of amazing things happen.
Why don't we make mood boards?
Well, here's the thing.
You might get, 'You know, I live in an apartment
'with three friends and I'm embarrassed
'to have a mood board with pictures of engagement rings,
'or weddings, or puppies or kittens,
'I'm embarrassed for my friends
'to see my inner hopes and dreams.'
So I also have a mood book, and a mood book is pretty cool.
It means you just do the same thing you stick in pictures,
but let's start with a vision board,
come back to the vision book.
So I'm going to start with a picture of a relationship.
You see, if you want love, then do that, and keep looking.
Say, 'I'm going to find someone that looks at me like that,'
and love doesn't have any age.
So there's loads of pictures of people that aren't 25
with perfect thighs finding love.
So the first thing is, find an image of what you want,
a couple on a cruise together,
a couple running a business together,
and just stick that up in any old fashion.
It doesn't have to be neat.
Look at it and say, 'I am attracting that.
'That's where I'm going.
'Me and my perfect partner,
'walking along the beach together at sunset.'
And I do apologize, these are all heterosexual couples.
Some of my best friends are gay couples,
but I just didn't have time to find that.
But I did find this, a bunch of guys out on a boat together.
What does that mean?
Well, that could mean I have great friends.
I look at that as a successful company,
rather annoying, there's no women in it,
but nevertheless, I want success.
Here's me and my team going out on a boat,
doing a team building exercise.
I create my own company and this is my staff.
I do recommend you have men and women in there together.
Maybe it's friendship and you know,
friendship's so important.
Here's me and all my friends
having a fabulous dinner together.
So you see how it is, I'm making a very generic mood board,
but you can make one just about business.
'I want to write a book,' let's have pictures of books
and bestseller lists and put your book in it.
Maybe this is about you building your own business.
Here's someone building a business in sales.
Here's someone building a business as a DJ.
That's pretty cool, a woman DJ, there's plenty of those.
So you get the picture, you get the picture.
Maybe you want to be super healthy.
So just putting in a yoga class,
just putting in paddle boarding,
something I do every single day, or horse riding.
Oh, why not?
And let me add that.
That can go here.
So you see you're getting a picture.
Maybe you want to be super healthy.
You could put up a picture of a great body,
the kind of food you would like to eat.
You see if you put up pictures of great vegetables
and look at them, you start to think, 'You know what?
'I need to cook this, I need to learn how to do that.
'I'm going to start cooking these great vegetables.'
So you can really put anything at all on your vision board.
You can put up pictures of a business success.
You can put up pictures of the kind of body you want to have
the kind of food you'd like to eat.
The kind of exercise you want to do.
Here's a pool.
So I'm going to swim every day.
Here's another pool.
Here's the kind of bedroom I want to have in my house.
Here's the kind of house I want to have.
Here's the kind of stomach I want to have.
Here's another house I would like to have.
And on and on it goes.
Here's the boat trips I want to go on.
And of course, we all want to travel.
So lots of images of having a great massage,
having a lovely car and the drive of my house,
having a car where I can go camping,
all these places I want to visit.
I've been here, it's amazing.
And you just put them up on your board and then,
you write all over it.
So that's really important.
'I am lovable.
'I am with my perfect, with my one.
'I love exercise.
'I have fabulous friends.'
Ignore my writing, I'm doing this rather quickly.
'I'm super healthy.'
You can write all over your vision board.
'I'm healthy, I'm loved, I'm enough.
'I'm successful, I have great friends.
'What I want, wants me.'
And again, if you don't want your friends to see that,
then create a book.
I was just on a plane and I read
about this private lounge at LAX.
I'm like, "Oh, I want to go to that private lounge."
And I thought, "No, I'm going to that private lounge."
So this private lounge at LAX,
I would cut that out and put it in my book.
And because I travel so much,
and I don't take my vision board with me,
I have a vision book and I have images of that
to remind me to eat better, to work out,
to remind me to use all the herbs and spices
that are good for my immune system,
to remind me that I love Santorini.
And you can create a little vision board book.
And if you're on the road a lot,
it's actually a better idea, as long as you do this,
you have to, of course, open it, look at it and say,
"I am going there, I am doing that, I am having that."
And it might help, you know that Jim Carrey,
when his career was not going well,
put a vision board of himself doing phenomenally well,
having another great movie.
Oprah Winfrey has a vision board.
Kelly Hoppen has the vision board.
In fact, she said, "Every year,
"I don't do New Year's resolutions,
"every year on January the first, I do a new vision board.
"I put out my vision for that year, I'm going to move,
"and here's the kind of apartment I want,
"the kind of client I want."
So you can have a vision board.
You can have a vision book.
If you have a vision board, you can't hide it under the bed,
get it out, put it above your bed, and look at it every day.
Only when I looked at my board everyday, did I wonder and
think, 'Wow.'
After I got married, I thought, 'You know,
'I should kind of take this down now,'
but I left it up for a long time.
And then I thought, every single thing on this board
has come true.
So well, you have to look at it.
If you have a vision book, look at it, write in it.
And of course you update it.
You think, you know what?
I've got a new vision now with my vision board,
it has a glass in front of it and I don't take it apart.
I just stick things on top of the glass with blue tack.
I write on it in magic marker.
I write on it, 'Marisa Peer's book is a bestseller,'
whatever the title of the book, my new book,
'Tell yourself a better lie' right on my board.
'Tell yourself a better lie' by Marisa Peer
is a bestseller, a runaway bestseller.
I might have a picture of someone on an airport
reading a book, and I simply tip it out,
white out their book and write out my book,
'Tell yourself a better lie'.
I could take a picture of a bookshop window with all books in
go home, and I will change that picture
even though I'm just drawing it.
Say my book is the one in the window.
I took my daughter to Waterstones bookshop in London.
I said, "You know, darling, in a few months,
mommy's book is going to be filling this window."
I didn't know that, but I described it to her, it came true.
And we had the greatest joy in taking a picture of me
and her standing outside Waterstones like that.
And the book, the window was full of my book.
You have to see it.
What the mind sees, it moves towards.
What you focus on, you get more of.
When you have a vision board or a vision book,
it makes you visualize every day.
Every time you look at it, you're visualizing.
Every time you open your book, you are visualizing.
And as you visualize, the world of possibilities opens up.
And as you see the image of your book, your speaking gig,
your business, your start-up,
because you're seeing it every day,
you suddenly think, 'You know what?
'I need to take action.
'I keep looking at this image of me with my own business,
'signing checks, signing books, getting awards.
'I now need to take action.'
So visualizing alone isn't quite enough.
But when you have a vision board, and see you
with the life you want, it inspires you to take action.
It also fires you to believe
that of course, you can have it.
If you can see it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, it's inside of you.
And the vision board takes it outside of you.
So you look at it, focus on it, make it real.
If you want your own home,
and you have images on a vision board,
you'll start to think of ways
you are going to find your own home.
In fact, there were studies that say that 82%
of businesses who use a vision board said within a year,
50% of what was on their vision board
had already become real.
Think about that, this is a business person, not woo-woo.
They had vision boards within a year,
50% of their visions had already occurred.
And if they can do it, you can do it.
Only habits hold you back.
Make a great habit of making a vision board, a vision book.
It would change your life, just like it changed mine.
Don't hesitate, start now, get lots of magazines,
get some pens, and another thing you can do, which is great,
is you can have a vision board on Pinterest.
You can use your computer screen as your vision board.
You can use your phone screen as your vision board.
You can go to Pinterest and pin all the things you want,
and now it's on your computer,
it should be your screensaver, it's on your phone,
and you can print it out into a big poster.
Put it above your bed, put it above your desk,
put it into your vision book.
Look at it every day, and in no time at all,
what you want will be right in front of you,
because what you want, wants you,
what you are moving towards is moving towards you.
Make your vision board so that you can see what you want,
move towards it, and it's yours.
If you want to get the most from life,
and make your visions real,
then please watch my free masterclass
linked in the description below where you can find out
how to uncover and get rid of any limiting belief,
so you can reach all your goals.