Showing posts with label vision boards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vision boards. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

El Consejo de la Visión: THE VISION BOARD

IN HONOR OF SPANISH HERITAGE MONTH:






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El secreto de una vida extraordinaria Por Joyce Schwarz, www.ihaveavision.org Descripción Descubre quién eres y Lograr lo que más quiere en la vida con la Junta de visión. joyceschwarz@gmail.com

Monday, September 14, 2009

HOW TO FIND YOUR PURPOSE IN LIFE WITH ALLEXPERTS.com GURU JOYCE SCHWARZ

Got questions about your purpose in life...don't forget that best-selling author Joyce Schwarz http://www.successfulrecareering.blogspot.com/ also writes the column on that topic at Allexperts -- see the link below! So for free advice that's your best opportunity.

INTERESTED IN PRIVATE COACHING SESSIONS WITH JOYCE SCHWARZ?

OF course, Joyce Schwarz also takes on a handful of private clients for 12 week sessions on changing careers or realizing their own personal potential in life! Email her at joyceschwarz(at)gmail.com for details.

Joyce Schwarz - Finding Your Purpose in Life - Self-Improvement ...Joyce Schwarz is an author and internationally known career strategist. ... "SUCCESSFUL RECAREERING" When Just Another Job Is Not Enough is a best seller. ...


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Saturday, September 12, 2009

How to Make a GREEN Vision Board by Joyce Schwarz author THE VISION BOARD book

Okay, now's the surprise-- all vision boards are really green and eco-friendly because they are really recycling magazines! Kewl huh?

One of the most eco-friendly ways to celebrate Earth Day with your family, office mates and school class is to create a Vision Board.


HOW to create an eco-friendly vision board to celebrate EARTH DAY!

Blogger note, during the past few months, one of the most requested posts on this author's Amazon.com blog has been "how to create an eco-friendly vision board. So I've repeated and updated this step-by-step post in celebration of Earth Day 2009. ENJOY!

RECYCLING ASSOCIATIONS DOING VISION BOARDS WITH JOYCE SCHWARZ, speaker and author, Good news, Joyce Schwarz, author,being contacted by various recycling organizations and foundation to set up workshops across the nation to show why creating Vision Boards is eco-friendly.

CARBON NEUTRAL:

First we want to assure that the book itself --208 page, 4-color throughouts, hard cover, 100 color pix IS "carbon neutral". A quick check online shows that News Corps, who owns Collins Desing, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishing does buy eco-offset credits

REMIX: RECYCLING MAGAZINES & OTHER PRINT MATERIALS
Be assured by creating Vision Boards using images from old magazines and other printed material such as direct mail flyers, invitations, posters, wallpaper and even newspaper clippings, you ARE RECYCLING!

There are several regional and national programs organized just to recycle magazines (more on those later, especially the ones from the MPA (Magazine Publishers Assn) and the City of New York.

SO TO START CREATING AN ECO-FRIENDLY VISION BOARD:
A) Gather old magazines, newspapers, printed materials including greeting cards, cartoons from newspapers, grocery circulars and catalogs in a large basket.

B) Be sure if you purchase any new background paper or materials that they are recycled too. Recycled posterboard is available but you may want to create your board using such eco-friendly materials as flax or organic cotton fabrics or even the back of old paintings or posters you already have on your wall--continuing the recycling circle.

C) Gather up found objects, paperclips, broken jewelry, ribbons from a birthday party or wedding shower, stamps and stickers from envelopes (you can re-attach with a glue stick later)

D) Be sure any paints or marker pens you use are also eco-friendly. In fact considering buying a whole pack of these and sharing them with your neighbors so that they can create an eco-friendly board too!

Or use natural materials. I've seen vision boards created with charcoal, withwaters colored by natural herbs & flowers and almost water-painted onto the board.

Or even consider painting (with eco-friendly paints) a large bolder or old board you find near your garage

E) Consider making your own recycled hand-made paper from old paper --the back of old posters, the back of leftover wallpaper or even on the back of an old awning or window shade!

F) If you're framing your board, be sure to recycle an old frame that you have in your house or garage or to pick one up at a flea market or thrift store in your neighborhood.
Examples include:


I recycle everything I can.

I am recycling my kitchen scraps too now.

I turn off the water when I brush my teeth.

I have a filter for my tap water.

I am simplifying my life.

I buy only what I absolutely need to live.

I make my footsteps on earth as light as they can be.

I recycle for others when I see an opportunity.

I make sure what I buy is carbon-neutral.

Pictures for your eco-board.

One of the fun ways to get the right pictures for your eco board is to make a list of those pix you'd like to see on the board such as: a) a home garden you are planting b) a method of composting you are starting in your group/family c) Past pictures of your family in the outdoors -- climbing or hiking or enjoying the earth at places you've visited --yes, even if they are near and part of your home town area. They don't have to be at an exotic location

TRAVEL -- another option is to gather some travel brochures at your local travel agency or from the travel section of your newspaper or favorite website and put those on the board planning on where you'd like to visit that IS eco-friendly

G) Gather the raw materials together. Spread out an old blanket or tablecloth to cover the creation area (a table or an area of a floor or even do it outside on your patio).

H) Begin by making a list with your group of the Eco affirmations they would like to keep in the next year and for the rest of their lives!

For more information see my other blog at http://www.visionboard.info/ and click on eco-vision board! Thanks or email me at thevisionboard(at)aol.com

HOW TO MAKE A BACK TO SCHOOL VISION BOARD TO PICTURE SUCCESS From Joyce Schwarz, motivational speaker and author The Vision Board book

By Joyce Schwarz, YOU CAN GO BACK TO SCHOOL AT ANY AGE...and now with President Obama's encourgement lots of moms are looking at finally getting their degrees. PLUS BABY boomers are looking at school and continuing education as a way to increase their options in the job market.

CERTIFIED VISION BOARD COUNSELOR -- one way to help other people make their dreams come true and to have your dreams realized too is to become a certified vision board counselor , email: joycechwarz(at)gmail.com to get details

For most families with children this is the time to shop for clothes and to prepare for the new year ahead. But for many kids and even for adults (moms and dads and single people, even the thought of saying goodbye to the summer and heading back into the classroom causes jitters and nervousness.

WHAT WILL THE SCHOOL YEAR BE LIKE?
WHAT WILL THE SCHOOL YEAR BE LIKE? Will I do well? What will the new classroom be like? Will it be different now that I'm starting high school or college? How will I deal with kids/people in my class?
Statistics on back-to-school students: more than 85 million in almost 100,000 different schools in the US alone:

All those questions are quite common for the approximately 85 million Americans going back to school ranging from nursery school through college this fall (statistics courtesy of the US Census Bureau and the National Retail Federation.
BACK TO SCHOOL ACTUAL NUMBERS:

From data supplied by the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Retail Federation, here’s a look at back-to-school 2009, by the numbers.

Approximately 85 million: Children and adults enrolled in school - nursery school through college


19 million: Number of students in colleges and universities this fall

$548.72: Amount the average family with students in kindergarten through high school will spend on school merchandise this season

$47.5 billion: 2009 back-to-school and back-to-college expenditure in the U.S.

shopping

98,793: Number of public schools in the U.S. in 2006-2007

7.2 million: Teachers in the U.S. in 2008

BUT CAN IT BUY SUCCESS?

So with all that money being spent -- $47.5 billion in back-to-school and back-to-college shopping who is looking at how kids and adults can succeed in their upcoming school year? It's Joyce Schwarz, author of THE VISION BOARD: the secret to an extraordinary life, Harper Collins Publishing, Collins Design who is encouraging families and the more than 7.2 milliion teachers in teh more than 98,000 public schools nationwide to vision their best possible new year by creating a Back-to-School Vision Board.

Best-selling author Joyce Schwarz recommends you create a 'back-to-school' vision board for those students in your family heading back to the classroom this fall. She says, it works for any age from kindergarten to post-gradute work. Schwarz is a paid motivational speaker who conducts workshops for such diverse organizations as Boeing Corporation and the SBDC (Small Business Development Corporation) on visioning your best possible future. Joyce lives and works in Marina Del Rey, CA and you can see her websites at www.joycecom.com and www.ihaveavision.org

What's a Vision Board? A vision board, according to author Schwarz who is also a nationally known career strategist and author of another best-seller SUCCESSFUL RECAREERING, explains is a visual map of what you want to create in your life. With a back-to-school vision board you can actually immerse yourself into the school year and visualize the positive results you will create this semester.

Schwarz has taught more than 10,000 students in her STAR*COURSE classes on how to be a star in your own life and does corporate seminars for such diverse organizations as Boeing Corporation and the SBDC (Small Business Development Centers) and trains teachers and counselors around the world from London to Sydney Australia to become Certified Vision Board Counselors so that they can show groups how to create vision boards like the Back-to-School Vision Board focusing in on educational success and maximizing learning potential for kids, teens and adults of all ages.

HOW TO CREATE A BACK TO SCHOOL BOARD

In her talk this Thursday night at the Mystic Journey Bookstore in Venice, California, Joyce will demonstrate how to create a Back to School Vision Board but she agreed to share some of the key steps with us here too.

1) Get a poster board approx 17 x 22 of any color.

2) Gather together colored markers, and stickers and other embellishments that will make your board colorful.
3) Get your kids and family together and brainstorm about how to make this school year the best possible year. Have some juice and water and snacks available as treats during this session.
4) Come up with some "power words" that express your the results of your brainstorming session such as: Happy, Challenge, Wisdom, Productive, Great Fun and even teen phrases like Awesome!

5) Add some favorite symbols such as a) happy face b) sunshine c)or even a new eco-lightbulb that is a bright color

6) Look up 'school quotes' on the internet or in a quotation book fro your bookshelf and add some of inspirational quote such as these:

"When the student is ready, the master appears." ~Buddhist Proverb


"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere." ~Chinese Proverb

7) Have the kids or the adult students in your family rehearse the first day of school and the ideal scene that they want to experience and come up with some key words that express that vision such as: exciting, Welcoming and enjoyable

8) Thumb through some magazines and pick out pictures that represent your key words and power phrases but also add pictures that just 'seem right' to express how positive this school year can be for both parents and kids and their peers.

7) Cut or tear out those pictures. If you can't find any magazines -- go onto a major search engine online like Google or even Flickr and search for copyright free photos or for those covered by what's called the Creative Commons License so that you canuse them without violating anyone's rights.
8) Get a glue stick or white glue and begin to arrange A) the pictures B) the quotations c) the phrases and power words on the board in a decorative and pleasing collage. It doesn't have to be fancy but it should be colorful and positive.
) Get a glue stick or white glue and begin to arrange A) the pictures B) the quotations c) the phrases and power words on the board in a decorative and pleasing collage. It doesn't have to be fancy but it should be colorful and positive.

9) If your family is having trouble releasing any fears or negativity about the school year. Have the people experiencing those doubts write them down on little strips of paper and put them into a garbage pail and then make a ritual about disposing of them or under adult supervision even turning them into a small bonfire! Release that negativity before school starts.

10) If you have family pictures of the school you'll attend of fun pictures of school activites from last year's pix or your yearbook you can copy them at a copy center and add them to the mix too.

Going to a new school or starting college -- add some of the pix from the online websites (most schools have websites now or take a quick road trip to the area and add new photos to your Back to School Vision Board.

PUT YOU ON THE BOARD -- most people forget to put themselves on the board, explains best-selling author Joyce Schwarz, but she adds this is important for you can actually immerse yourself into the positive environment by adding your own happy, smiling picture. Don't have a picture then try on the new school clothes and take some digital pix and add those to the board.

DISPLAY YOUR BOARD -- display your board where you and the students can see it -- in their room or in the hallway or even in the kitchen. You can do one for the family or one for each child/adult going back to school. Parents anticipating empty nests for the first time can also create a vison board for their new life ahead.

Be sure to look and talk to your board. Read the positive quotes and power words. After all you talk to your pets or even your plants-- why not rehearse how wonderful the school year can be.

MAKE A PORTABLE COPY OF YOUR BACK TO SCHOOL VISION BOARD -- take the vision board to a copy place and get some scans done if they are too large to do with your home computer. Be sure to get color copies so that you can have the kdis put theim into the knapsacks or the adults into their briefcases. You can even do mini-versions so that you can stick a mini-back-to-school vision board in your purse or wallet or even laminate it and add it to your keychain or as a charm to dangle from your cell phone!

FREE CHAPTER:

For a free chapter on visioning from author Joyce Schwarz go to http://tinyurl.com/seeinsidebook and to buy THE VISION BOARD book go to http://tinyurl.com/visionboardamazon or get it at your local Barnes & Noble, Borders or Target shop or your favorite independent bookstore and in Canada at Costco stores.

FOR MORE HINTS ON MAKING VISION BOARDS: go to http://www.visionboard.info which is the official blog for Joyce Schwarz book THE VISION BOARD and you can also surf on over to the official website at www.ihaveavision.org

Friday, September 11, 2009

Boomerang Kids: Advice from Joyce Schwarz, author THE VISION BOARD book

GRABS FORMULA FOR SUCCESS EXPLAINED by author Joyce Schwarz:
*GRABS formula for success as described on page 8 of The Vision Board book: the secret to an extraordinary life which explains:
G stands for Gratitude and giving

R for Release and Receive

A for acknowledge and ask

B for being authentic to yourself and believing

S for sharing and beginning the cycle of creation again.

If you'd like a copy of the itunes version of the radio show, please email: thevisionboard@aol.com

ADVICE FOR BOOMERANGE PARENTS & KIDS: on visioning & Vision Boards

Alas this questiion got pushed to the last question asked because of time limits so I'll address the answer briefly in this blog post and then cover it in a separate podcast/blog interview in the future. But here are some quick tips that I covered: a) Boomerang Kids are at a 'transition' point in their lives. One of the best ways they can prepare to vision their next stage in life is by: *volunteer work *concentrating on the gratitude and giving part of the success formula. They may want to do a board just on gratitude. Or they may want to do a board for a cause they believe in like "SAVE THE WHALES" etc just to get the feeling for it.

To sign up for a free newsletter on vision board creation go to: http://www.visionboard.com

Join The Vision Board book Official Facebook Group today Personal Invite from Author Joyce Schwarz

Here's what you'll get when you join the group for free:

*Free quarterly newsletter with four-color pictures of vision board creation

*Free invitations to workshops online

*Free conference calls and private radio show invitations

*Opportunity to have your vision board including in upcoming The Vision Board book products from The Vision Board Institute of America.

For more details sign up at http://tinyurl.com/vbgroup

To read The Vision Board book daily blog sign up at www.visionboard.info
To get information about the upcoming free conference calls about how to become a certified vision board counselor email: thevisionboard@aol.com or call Joyce directly at 310-822-3119

HOW TO DO YOUR OWN PR: Joyce Schwarz, Hollywood Guru REVEALS Secrets

ARE YOU READY FOR YOUR CLOSE-UP AND ALL THE HEADLINES YOU DESERVE!

-- for your book, your project or your company or for yourself. It is much more than just sending out a press release or having a mailing list of press names and contacts!.

Would you like to find out how:

a) TO BECOME A BLOGSTAR? how to tap into hundreds of blogs and be featured in less than 90 days like Joyce Schwarz, author of THE VISION BOARD did this year already!

b) HOW TO MAKE HEADLINES IN LESS THAN 30 MINUTES --reknown advertising & PR awardwinning secrets are revealed by Joyce in this workshop! Joyce got her book THE VISION BOARD and her clients (small, medium & large companies and sole proprietors and other book authors and speakers) featured in such major online media brands as USA TODAY, FORBES, FORTUNE, LA TIMES, DAILY NEWS, NBC NEWS and dozens and dozens of other major publications in less than 30 minutes!
c*Where and how to find more than 200 daily leads on reporters who want to interview you -- FOR FREE! Online and offline sources that are available to you so that reporters, talk show hosts and TV producers WILL CALL YOU and ask you to be in their articles and on their shows. Joyce knows -- she's gotten more than 200 interviews for herself and her client and NEVER made a cold call pitch!

The Vision Board featured on MSN internationally and reaching 1 1/2 million readers.
Read how Joyce Schwarz garnered more than $1/4 million in free publicity for her book THE VISION BOARD in less than 90 days -- she can shoe you how to do it too.
Contact Joyceschwarz@gmail.com for a personal consultation (put the phrase -- "HEADLINE ME" into the subject line and then put a time that I can call you back or tell you about the following:

1) One to one coaching for your personal publicity plan

2) Home study program -- 90 days to get yourself into the headlines (or have a pal, colleague or even your spouse help you to make NEWS using the day by day study program and actual step by step proven techniques Joyce Schwarz uses for her own books and for major clients like AT&T, Disney, Sheraton Hotel Corp, and celebrities, VIP's and many of the top wisdom and personal development leaders she advises!

3) FREE TELECONFERENCE REVEALING the top 7 RULES TO FOLLOW TO GET YOUR NAME IN HEADLINES in this new era of social media and to reinforce it with TWITTER, FACEBOOK & YOUR OWN BLOGS/WEBSITES & EMEDIA! THE FREE CALL IS SET FOR NEXT MONDAY at 11 am PST and 2 pm EST and again at 7 pm EST and 4 pm PST and there will be an audio version of it too for download! Email: joyceschwarz(at)gmail.com for call in number and code --send an email to joyceschwarz@gmail.com and put in the subject: FREE CALL TO PR ME!

4) 90 DAY PARTNERSHIP WITH JOYCE: Go ahead and sign up Joyce Schwarz and her team to walk you through step by step during your 90 days and support your efforts and make sure you get the hands-on help you need to SUCCEED. Guaranteed you'll get at least a dozen media placements/radio interviews & be a BLOGSTAR at the end of the 90 day period!

Check out joyce's other business at: www.joycecom.com and see her biography and her list of past clients. Joyce is an accredited APR professional (like a CPA for PR execs) from the Public Relations Society of America only the top 3 percent of all PR execs in the world ARE accredited and have passed the rigorous accreditation and certification process to gain the APR designation.

Schwarz has served as a VP and senior executive for such major advertising and PR firms as Foote Cone & Belding and OMD (Ogilvy) She has done PR for more than 25 years and is probably best known for the campaign for the MISSING KIDS ON THE MILK CARTON CAMPAIGN she created for Ralphs Grocery company (KROGERS) nationally. She is the author of 6 books and more than 400 articles that have appeared in Wall Street Journal, LADIES HOME JOURNAL, FOX BUSINESS, CHICAGO SUN TIMES, LONDON TIMES & hundreds of other publications.
You can reach Joyce at 310-822-3119

To see a free chapter of her award winning book THE VISION Board go to http://tinyurl.com/visionboardamazon

Let's Blow this Popsicle Stand --How any image can be interpreted with pix from Joyce Schwarz THE VISION BOARD author

How can you get the right image for your vision board? Well, we're coming up on father's day and this is the first one without my dad. So I decided to take one of his favorite phrases (considering it's Friday and very appropriate) and look at the phrase " LET'S BLOW THIS POPSICLE STAND -- which generally meant we were about to go out and get icecream or go to the movies or something fun! Not dissimLegend has it that this term was first coined in the 1940's by a Jamaican named Antoine Cleo. Antoine Cleo believed that filling the area of a popsicle with deadly radiation, could be used against certain countries as biological warfare. He believed that the radiation had certain brainwashing chemicles inside of it and that placing the popsicles at stands at random areas could allow more people to buy the popsicles, thus was his plan for world domination.




However, his plans were soon foiled when a strange cult called the Kindred Spirits (The Cult leader was Later identified as a man named Dushka Deshvky) blew up all the popsicle stands in America, including killing the perpetrator, Antoine Cleo.



"Lets blow this popsicle stand" was then started as an inside joke between 4 teenagers, then it spread throughout the United States, the phrase from then on meant, "Lets get out of here fast, before something bad happends to us."

Now maybe after hearing this, we can walk away a little wiser about what this phrase means. Source: Evil minds of the 1900's.
FOR A FREE CHAPTER OF THE VISION BOARD go to http://tinyurl.com/seeinsidebook.
To buy the book go to your local bookstore or get it on amazon.com at http://tinyurl.com/visionboardamazon

SAY YES TO LIFE WITH A VISION BOARD by Joyce Schwarz, author The Vision Board book

*SCROLL DOWN TO SEE 5 NO COST TIPS TO SAY YES TO LIFE TODAY!

Here are 5 NO COST WAYS TO SAY AND "SHOW" YES to the world even before you make your vision board:

1) Go to the park and take a ride on a swing -- go ahead act the age of your shoe size? Ever heard that before --my shoe size is 8 -- so I get to be an 8 year old anytime I want!

2)Eat dessert first! I just found out that October 28 --the launch date of The Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life is NATIONAL CHOCOLATE DAY! Ymmm so I'm taking this opportunity to remind you to eat your dessert first that day -- it's only 19 days away! A little bit of dark chocolate is full of anioxidents so go ahead splurge every day with a bite or two of the most decadent chocolate you can find!

3) Put on your happy cap if you're having a bad hair day. I always keep a few of my favorite baseball caps with fun logos hanging as decorations in one of my closets! When I'm feeling a bit down -- I ALWAYS wear my sequineed black and silver baseball cap and I take it on trips around the world-- even on a ride on an Arabian horse in Petra, Jordan!

NO MORE BAD HAIR DAYS! Okay -- we'll have to get some SHARE THE VISION baseball caps to tie in with our website www.ihaveavision.org! More on that later.
4) Share a compliment-- say something nice today to someone you DON'T KNOW -- if life is a little cloudy-- I always make sure that I give a compliment or two to someone I see in a store or even in a parking lot.

It's easy --and yes, you can be sincere -- after all -- most people love to be told that their car is a beautiful color or that their T shirt is so much fun or that you love that gorgeous Olive green handbag that the senior you see at the post office is carrying.

You'll be amazed how much it perks you up!

5) CALL A PAL you haven't talked to in a few months or even a few years. Ask them the questions about their life and family -- be a good listener, don't spoil the moment by dragging them down with your own doldrums! Remind them of a couple of fun things you did together.

That's a great way to open the call --start by saying "remember the time we did....."
Now make a list of all of the great things you appreciate in your life and all of the great people and take some pictures of them or go through a magazine and begin to place them on a vision board.

What's a vision board? Most of you know a vision board is a visual map or depiction of how you'd like to live your best life possible and a way to pay tribute to the wonderful things you have and are creating in your life.

Take a poster board or a blank journal and paste some of these YES images in your journal or on your board. And add affirmations that remind you that you are grateful for what IS yes in you life and what will add more YES to your life in the future. Speak in the present tense (not the future) I am grateful for the wonderful home I have on a hill in the forest! YES I have that home now! See it experience it.
ADD MORE YES TO YOUR LIFE TODAY!


Author's Bio

Joyce A. Schwarz is the author of THE VISION BOARD, th secret to an extraordinary life. For a free chapter of the book go to http:/tinyurl.com/seeinsidebook

It's time to Re-vision 2009 Do a new Vision Statement & Vision Board!

by Joyce A. Schwarz, www.ihaveavision.org and www.visionboard.info


At this time of the year, many of us are looking at what a great summer you had and maybe looking forward sheepishly to the end of the year because you have not accomplished what you hoped for.

That's why I recommend that you do a quarterly check up on your Vision Statement and Vision Board. I do mine at the start of each season: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring etc.
The most important tools to guide you through the transitions of each year are a Vision Statement and a Vision Board.
What am I talking about? A vision statement is a vivid, idealized description of the outcome that you want. Something that inspires ... energizes you, and helps you create a mental image of your target.
My personal vision statement is short and sweet “TO LIVE THE POSSIBLE DREAM”, a positive spin on Don Quixote’s famous “Live the Impossible Dream”.
Some of you may be familiar with corporate mission statements or company mantras but all too often those come from the Ivory towers and are issued via memo.

Vision statements are much more personal – the concept started from the grass roots and spread across the world by people who want to realize their own personal talents and ensure that their life matches their values.

USE TO ENHANCE YOUR LIFE...and visualize the future: A vision statement can be used to enhance any part of your life, like family or career. It could also be created to visualize a new home or a specific project.

Here are some tips for creating your own vision statement:

*Summarize your vision in a powerful statement (1-4 sentences)

*Make sure it stands the test of time (think ballpark vs. small details)
*Suspend disbelief—anything is possible!

*Follow up with ‘inspired action’ (specific steps toward your vision)

*Post it somewhere you can see it daily (and update it quarterly)

*Consider starting with a wish list or bucket list of your dreams.

*Start with a sentence or two and pare it down to a short phrase

*Pick a power word like freedom and craft your vision around that word.

Where to get your inspiration for your vision?

Give a new spin to a classic song you love.
Rearrange an advertising phrase to inspire you.

See a favorite movie one more time.
Refer to a favorite quotation
Recite your favorite poem, it may offer a hint or two
Once you craft your vision statement here are some ways to use it to inspire you to create your create your best possible holiday season and lead into a new year to remember.
Post it where you can see it daily.
Carry a copy of it in your wallet or handbag.
Add it to your vision board.

Print it on the back of your business cards.

Use the power words in your new vision statement to update our current vision board or create a new vision board just for this upcoming season ie Summertime!
Joyce Schwarz: Author's Bio

Joyce Schwarz is the best-selling author of THE VISION BOARD the secret to an extraordinary life which has a preface by Bob Proctor and an afterword by Jack Canfield. The book has been featured in TV GUIDE, on Television networks ABC, NBC, CBS, CW in 52 different cities.
Schwarz is also the founder of THE VISION BOARD Institute and has launched the world's first accreditation program for Certied Vision Board Counselors which you can find out more about by going to www.visionboard.info

WHAT IS A VISION BOARD? Is it time for a New Vision Board for 2009 by Joyce Schwarz, author THE VISION BOARD book

WHAT IS A VISION BOARD? Is it time for a New Vision Board for 2009 by Joyce Schwarz, author THE VISION BOARD book


The Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life What is a Vision Board? By Joyce Schwarz, Author, speaker, producer, The Visiono Board by Harper Collins Publishing, Collins Design explains that a vision board is a visual representation of what you are creating and want in your life now and in the future.

Vision Boards are also known as "dream boards", "wish boards", "Treasure maps" "Life Collage", "Wisdom Collage" and other names.
The history of the Vision Board dates back to the caveman era where pictures of animals and other visuals were sketched or painted on walls of caves and nown known as Cave Paintings. Many of these early cave paintings were painted in advance of a hunt where the artist was visually experiencing the hunting conquest in advance. A form of 'visioning' or visualization.
VISION BOARDs have been featured on such TV shows as OPRAH, LARRY KING, ELLEN and others to show the power of how to change your mind and change your life.

Vision boards come in all shapes and designs and can be made from all substances ranging from paper to canvas to actual wall-size creations to mobile versions for iPod and iPhone.

Most people are familiar with Vision Boards that one creates that look a bit like collage and feature pictures torn from magazines and photographs and personal memorabilia that is affixed by glue or paste to a poster or foam board. But Vision Boards variations also can include paintings, mixed-media and other arts and crafts.

A Vision Board generaly includes these elements:

A) Visuals: photos, magazine images, drawings, photographs and

B)Affirmations: optimistic sayings,inspirational quotes, mantras and mottos that encourage good habits and changes in your life for the better.

C)Embellishments -- including stickers, foil stars, glitter, ribbon, personal memorabilia such as concert tickets, travel folders, maps and

D)DREAM OR WISH LIST -- a list of those visions, dreams or wishes or desires you want and are creating in your lifeAnd other elements which will be featured in the upcoming book ThE VISION BOARD.

WHAT KIND OF VISION BOARDS can you create?
Here are examples of just a few of the types of vision boards that you can create. You can also create them for special occasions in your life and during your year:

*Love Vision Board

*Relationship Vision Board

*Prosperity Board

*Gratitude Board

*Health and Fitness Vision Board

*Travel Vision Board

*Vacation Board

*Life Overview Board
And for special occasions throughout the year consider creating a vision board for:

*Birthday Vision Board

*Marriage Vision Board

*Wedding Anniversary Vision Board

*Graduation Board

*Valentine Board

*Thanksgiving Board

*Christmas Board

*Holiday Board

*Giving Board

*2009 Vision Board

For more information about Vision Boards go to www.ihaveavision.org and insert your email to get a free copy of the Vision Board newsletter.

GRAB LIFE -- Joyce Schwarz Proprietary GRABS FORMULA REVEALED

What if you could grab the best of life like a game at a carnival...you know the one that has that claw and you get a stuffed animal or money or candy? Well you can ...and it is much easier than the carnival game when you follow Joyce Schwarz proprietary system in THE VISION BOARD.

WHAT DOES GRABS stand for: See chapter one of Joyce's book for more details or preview it at http://tinyurl.com/seeinsidebook.
Go ahead and GRAB life says Joyce Schwarz, author of THE VISION BOARD: The secret to an extraordinary life , see a free chapter of that bestselling book at http://tinyurl.com/seeinsidebook.

Help others make their dreams come true become a Certified Vision Board Counselor Home Study NOW

Yes, great news -- the home study program to become a Certified Vision Board Counselor is now available. It is an 8 week program and includes:8 classes on on CD (90 minutes long -- actual audios from classes so you get the feeling of interaction with other class members)Http://tinyurl.com/vbhomestudy 8 Audios introducing the sessions by bestselling author Joyce Schwarz telling you how to market and promo your vision board counseling practice and how to teach dozens of other classes and workshops using THE VISION BOARD book by Joyce Schwarz. PLUS 8 written lesson plans and 8 inspirational podcast from wisdom leaders featured in Joyce's book THE VISION BOARD

The Vision Board: the secret to an extraordinary life has been a bestseller on Amazon.com for more than 25 weeks since it's publication in fall, 2009 Now author and Hollywood career strategist Joyce Schwarz shows how to add another stream of income to your life and career by becoming a certified Vision Board Counselor. See http://tinyurl.com/vbhomestudy
For more information about becoming a Certified Vision Board Counselor and also researching the option of taking private coaching lessons or small group classes on certification, email: thevisionboard@aol.com

The Vision Board book author Joyce Schwarz Explores Oprah's O Dream Board !

The Vision Board book author Joyce Schwarz Explores Oprah's O Dream Board !


By Joyce Schwarz blogging at www.visionboard.info Yes, of course we HAD to be among the first to try out Oprah.com's new "O Dream Board' downloadable System. Bestselling author, Joyce Schwarz, THE VISION BOARD book: the secret to an extraordinary life, Harper Collins Publishing is visioning partnering with Oprah.com and sharing her book with Oprah and her fans! For a free chapter of THE VISION BOARD book, go to: http://tinyurl.com/seeinsidebook
To order THE VISION BOARD book go to http://tinyurl.com/visionboardamazon


O DREAM BOARD link and summary of features: try O Dream Board
link provided by www.visionboard.info (blog for THE VISION BOARD book by Joyce Schwarz.
The O Dream Board includes:
a) almost 600 free copyright free images from Getty Images

b) intentions creator with intentions that you write yourself (like affirmations or what you intend to take action for or do to create your best possible life or envision your best life as Oprah says. With the ability to hide or display your intentions.
C) text box creator to add text to your board

D) Ability to upload your own pictures to the board from your own computer.

E) Ability to title each board your make with your own title at the bottom of the page
F) Ability to download O Dream Board to your computer.

G) Ability to take a snapshot of the board 1) with intentions displayed or 2) without the intentions displayed

H) create as many versions of the board as you want and store the snapshots on your own computer
I) Link to Walgreens.com to print your dream board as a photograph m) Change the color of the fonts of the text and 2) change the size of the fonts and make them bold or italic.

n) Change the background of your text box with a handful of colors
o) Size your photos with just stretching or squeezing corners with your mouse.
P) make your board for Mac or PC (there is no Linux edition yet)
and MORE....that's just our first look. We'll be in touch with our contacts at Oprah.com to see what more they have in store. We do know that we've seen beta tests for the software on POWERFULINTENTIONS.com and on the Oprah.com site. S
So far we cannot find any press releases or promo other than what is on the Oprah.com website at this link: http://www.oprah.com/article/spirit/inspiration/odreamboard

Multiple Streams of Income With Vision Board by Joyce Schwarz, www.visionboard.info

Thriving is a mind/body challenge . Most multiple entrepreneurs (who run several businesses at once will tell you the value of multiple income streams. The challenge is walking the talk and keeping your antenna up for great income opportunities that will help you make money while you sleep.

Many of you combine different skill sets in a portfolio that enables you to create what an income pie where various slices of that pie come from different income sources. In this article, you'll find updates for this new crossroads in our economy.

One of the keys to thriving and not surviving is to envision your future in advance. To not just get by but to create the life you really want now-- even if it seems impossible and your bank account is low or nil and you are facing what seems like enormous challenges.
Here are some key tips:

What's the future hold for your career/job or business? In this economy that is a real challenge to answer for many of you. BUT the insight you get in this article will guide you well toward creating the income you need to thrive not just survive!

The key to your future and to our economy's challenges may just be simple -- redesign the workspace/workplace and redefine the word WORK and CAREER which are thousands of years old -- and lag behind the opportunities in the 21st Century.

It sure ain't your grandfather's workplace. In fact it's vital that you know that okay to do more than just one thing in life.

A Wealth and Well-being Vision Board enables you to explore that many options for income creation --from artist to zoologist.

Can you say A.W.E?

One example of an abundance vision board that you may have seen online is a concept collage that combines ancient Mandala symbols with an updated version of visioning to show the future vision of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs launching new ventures.

Where are the opportunities? What sectors are the hottest? Many leaders now involved in the wellness revolution --sees great opportunity in AWE -- Abundance, Wellness and Enlightenment and are beginning to tap into the $12.5 Billion dollar personal growth industry.

IT SURE AIN'T YOUR GRANDPA's ECONOMY TODAY!

Many of you feel guilty because you were raised to revere your grandpa's gold watch that he got at his retirement dinner and you went to the office with your mom on TAKE YOUR DAUGHTER TO WORK DAY...you still see creating income as getting a paycheck.

Have your own business? For many of you a business or being an entrepreneur has resulted in just creating your own JOB or work that provides you just enough to get by. The new boss you have-- called Y-O-U is even tougher than many of the ones you had when you were working 9-5.

THAT'S WHY THE REAL ANSWER to financing your lifestyle (that's what I like to call the next-gen of what we used to call work or jobs) is MULTIPLE INCOME STREAMS.

Income that comes from a) a day job or some ongoing source of income -- it may not pay all your bills but you can depend on it-- maybe a contract with your former company, a part-time gig you take at the local retailer.

That's just the start-- from there you can create multiple income streams from such opportunities as:

a) Turn your hobby into cash -- if you own a boat-- consider giving sailing lessons. Even if you don't a pal of yours can probably get you into the local yacht club to give a workshop or two that people pay for.

b) Monetize your talents and hobbies. Whether you're a sailing fan or an artist or a natural foods follower, you can actually make money from your own talents and hobbies. . Everyone is creative-- if you love to write or you yearn to create art or you scribble out poems that are worthy of being on a greeting card - now is the time to join the online merchants evolution (note evolution not revolution). If you are an expert sailor, teach sailing. If you know natural foods, offer to shop for your neighborhood and charge them a service fee.

A popular concept called PRINT ON DEMAND (POD) enables you to post your project to sites like Amazon's Create Space and others where you can sell prints of your artwork or try www.etsy.com where you can see handmade handicrafts so gorgeous it may bring a tear to your eye.

C) Be an affiliate for someone else who has their own artwork, or written creations to promote. Go ahead start today and become an Amazon Associate-- you can list

D) Become an Amazon merchant -- got more than one book to sell -- well then head over and start an Amazon merchant account for as little as $19.95 per month. You can add books to any mix of products or services that you sell.

E) Look into direct selling opportunities and in 'cloning' yourself and your website with your own reps, and affiliates around the world.
Multiple income streams can be as simple as adult in your extended family 'repping' the other person's products or services. Carry a handful of business cards for your colleagues and pals. Work out a finder's fee for when they get business from a referral by you and do the same for them. The standard is 10 percent of the first month's revenues referred to them by you. See wasn't that simple?

She is the author of THE VISION BOARD: the secret to an extraordinary life which just hit #1 on the Amazon Spiritual Best-seller list. "The Vision Board" is published by Harper Collins Publishing, Collins Design and features a 4-color book, hard-bound with more than 100 color pictures throughout.

 The foreword for The Vision Board is by Bob Proctor and the afterword by Jack Canfield. The book features interviews, tips and quotes from more than 75 wisdom leaders and such teachers of THE SECRET as: Marie Diamond, Bob Doyle, Mike Dooley, Lee Brower, Dr. Michael Beckwith and of course Bob Proctor and Jack Canfield.
 To see inside the book go to http://www.tinyurl.com/seeinsidebook