SUNDAY 28TH MAY 2023
Well, here I am – another year older and, this time I feel I can say, another year wiser. I am so grateful for all I have learned in the past year – it is my birthday gift to me! I’ve done sober birthdays before so it was no hardship and it didn’t even cross my mind to wish that I could have a glass of red with my birthday tea.
The week leading up to my birthday, with a credit burning a hole in my Audible account, I decided I could no longer ignore the fact that Roxie Nafousi’s “Manifest” was staring me in the face every time I opened the app. For some reason, I had never even felt inclined to preview it but it waited patiently on my “Recommended for you” list until I was ready and, yet again, the timing of the Universe, finally compelling me to download it, was perfect. The book is a 7 step guide to manifesting and obviously ties in nicely with all the reading I’ve been doing about mindset, etc. The main bit that caught my attention this week, however, was the section on creating vision boards. Now, I’ve come across the idea of creating vision boards before but never actually made one. Why? Well, on the one hand, it probably seemed like too much effort and, on the other hand, there just didn’t seem to be any point. I honestly doubted my ability to achieve anything I might desire and the thought of setting myself all these goals that I “knew” I’d never reach was too depressing to bear. How sad is that? Now, however, with my new-found enthusiasm and faith, making vision boards actually sounds like a good idea. Roxie talks about creating boards for different time scales – 6 months, 1 year, 5 years. Funnily enough, I made the observation many years ago that my life seems to run in 5-year cycles that I can trace all the way back to my 3rd birthday. I have flashes of memories that I know came before that but my 3rd birthday is my first clear memory that I can pin a date on so I see that as my starting point. Now here I am, 50 years on, embarking on the next period of my life. Seems like the ideal time to create a 5-year vision board! So, as I enjoyed some hammock time on my birthday, I started thinking about what I would put on a 1-year and a 5-year vision board, if I were to be so bold – and, you know what? I just might!
Theme Tune: Praise You by Fatboy Slim