so we'll just give you a little hint
today a little tip that is really going
to help you with your passion purpose
your focus your drive you know many many
years ago I was trying to get a book
deal and I'd put on a little talk about
how to lose weight because my book was
all about that and I hadn't sold hardly
any tickets so I canceled it
and the same day my agent called we went
oh my gosh I've got um six different
publishers who want to come to your
talked about well I just can't this one
put it back on quick because they're all
coming and it was that weekend and I
think she called me on a Thursday night
so on the Friday I rang all my friends
everyone I said come to this talk it's
completely free and and I got lots of
people to come because I knew that six
major publishing houses were coming to
this talk and she told me one of them
was definitely gonna give me a deal if
not all of them so I only had Friday and
Friday I could have spent ages planning
the talk but you know I didn't actually
made a mood board I thought that's a
good thing so on Friday night I had an
old picture and I took it out of the
frame and I started to stick things in
it and I wrote Marissa Pierre gets a
great book do you like I cut out the
Times bestselling list and I stuck it in
there and wrote on it my book you can be
thin and I did lots and lots of pictures
like Marissa makes people thin I went
through magazines I cut stuff out I
wrote some checks out there I made this
mood for really exciting and I just
looked at it and looked at it and looked
at it and it makes me so excited about
my talk and the next day I went off and
I did the talk and lo and behold at the
end somebody came up to me and she's
still my god I love that talk and we
want you to come in on Monday and we're
gonna offer you a book deal straight
away and we'd really love you not to
meet the other five publishers as we
want you so that was very exciting and
in fact I did end up signing with them
and it all was wonderful but I know it
was that mood board that helped me
because it took my mind to where I
wanted to be
it made me focus only on success of
course the mood board doesn't say things
like well might not make it the mood
board has success so let's imagine you
want to be a therapist that's what your
vision is or a photographer maybe you
want to be a chef I want you to imagine
you've got a mood what and you fill it
up with pictures if you want to be a
chef
pictures of great food reviews from
restaurants and of course you're gonna
cross out the name of the chef and write
your name in and said in black marker
pen so find lots of reviews and put your
name in and then write all over the mood
board - let's say your name is Alexandra
Richardson you're gonna put Alex
Richardson in stead of that chef and
you're gonna put lots of reviews and
let's say you've found the top 10 best
restaurants and you're gonna call your
restaurant the Fox and so you cross that
and you put the Fox
Alex Richardson's restaurant the Fox and
just keep looking at that and you write
all over your mood or all the things
that work for you people love this
restaurant the best restaurant in
wherever you live in the world the food
here is amazing and then you look at
lots of interviews with chefs and you
imagine your interview and you put it up
there you can even mock one up that's
what printers are for so mock up an
interview mock up everything and look at
that mood board mock up all the things
that you're going to cook they're going
to give you pleasure mock up the cookery
book you're going to write mock up so
much stuff you know a couple of years
ago I was asked to work with probably
the angriest kid I've ever worked with
in my life and when we started to work
he said you know no one loves me I have
no love in my life and I realized that
his anger was actually incredible pain
but I talked to him and I asked him what
he was good at he said enough things
asked him what he loved he said cooking
so we talked about that a bit and he's
ended up being a phenomenally successful
chef he's got a great girlfriend he went
to work for other chefs he's now got his
own restaurant his life has changed
dramatically because I found one thing
that he loved
and focused on his purpose and the
reason he was here and he loved cooking
so much so I knew straight away that
that's what he was meant to do and now
he's doing and his life has changed 360
degrees mood boards have been proven
over and over again to stimulate your
brain to excite your imagination to keep
your focus on where you want to go when
you focus on where you want to go you
actually go towards it the more you
focus on where you want to be the more
your mind like a heat-seeking missile
takes you to where you want to be so if
you want to be an Olympic athlete you'd
have to take a lot of action you have to
practice a lot and train a lot if you
don't want to do something physical
train your mind practice with your mind
use mood boards I've done it quite a few
radio interviews about why mood boards
are so successful why people who have
everything tend to have mood boards now
the mood board I made years ago I put it
above my bed which is an odd thing to do
actually because I faced away from it so
I don't look at it every day anymore but
a little while ago I looked at it and I
realized that every single thing I put
on that mood board had come true in fact
when I finished with all the things I
was going to do as a writer I put up
some pictures one was hot-air ballooning
and one was something else and I
realized that every single thing I'd put
up I think one was riding a camel I'd
actually done all of those I thought
well I better make a new mood board now
with new things I would I wrote down
some of the countries I wanted to go to
so if you put it above your bed do make
sure that you look at it better to put
it really on your fridge or in your
kitchen or in your office you can also
take a big photograph of it and make
that your screensaver and the wallpaper
on your home because then of course you
will look at it every day over and over
again but even though I made that mood
board and put it in a place where I
didn't look at it and actually looked
away from it guess what it still worked
so imagine I have a work if it's right
in your line division if it's on your
computer screen and I work with many
many women or having huge problems
conceiving and I get them to make a BB
board same thing but it's a picture of a
positive pregnancy test colored in - yes
it's lots of pictures of babies I have
them all so put that on Instagram and on
their computer screen so they see it
every day and the success rates with
using that baby board are phenomenal
make your mood board use it look at it
it will really help you take action
because it will excite your imagination
it will motivate you and it will inspire
your potential as you move towards your
potential it expands so don't focus too
much on where you are now because guess
what your potential expands as you move
towards it you know what that means it
means you could never know what your
potential is because as you move towards
it it expands so you may think I just
want to get a job in a kitchen I'd love
to work in a kitchen cooking and as you
start leaving actually I'd like to be
the senior chef in this kitchen that
will move - I want my own restaurant I
want my own cookery book I want my own
cookery program there's nothing wrong
with any of that one of my clients just
wanted to be a vet that's all she wanted
to be but she couldn't be a vet because
she was asked to leave vet veterinary
school twice because she dropped out of
school before she was fully educated and
they said no sorry she couldn't afford
to go back a third time anyway and she
was so depressed about that I said look
it isn't black or white why do you want
to be a vet I love animals I just want
to work with animals and so I spoke to
her and asked her to consider being
working in a charity for animals and and
being an animal train and one of my
friends a guy called Jerry cart he's to
be in the Boomtown Rats is a fantastic
animal trainer he trains animals for all
the different adverts you'll see on tell
for movies too and so I got him to speak
to her
and lo and behold she started off
working in a dog and cat rescue shelter
and then she trained to be an animal
behavioral expert and then she got her
own show so her potential went from
working in this animal rescue center
being paid to work at an animal rescue
center training to be an animal
behavioral expert writing a book and
getting my own television show that was
extraordinary all because that was what
her heart wanted to do that's all she
ever wanted to do and now she's doing
and you know what she's happier and
worth more financially did you ever been
a vet if she'd been a vet she'd be happy
doing what she's done has made her
ecstatic and financially more successful
happier in every way possible so keep
thinking about your goals use that mood
board and remember your potential
expands as you move towards it where you
are now it doesn't matter you have no
idea what your potential is because it's
going to move as you move towards it and
when your mind moves to new dimensions
guess what it never ever ever goes back
only goes forward so start now you'll be
amazing
you