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Ep 2. Manifesting Magic: Vision Boards and the Power of Focus · The Manifestation Station

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Music.
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You're listening to the Manifestation Station podcast. I'm your host Holly Edwards
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and together we can help create your magic.
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Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Manifestation Station.
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Thank you so much for coming back this week.
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It was such a pleasure to hear all of your manifesting stories this week.
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I've had so many messages just saying that
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you feel like you're really in the zone and that you're ready to
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get going on your manifesting and you've also been
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very kind and generous in sharing your manifesting stories
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with me I'm also along the way on this podcast going to share as many stories
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as I can I have so many personal stories about my own successes with manifesting
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and stories of those around me and from strangers who are writing their manifesting stories in.
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And I think when you can hear other people's stories, you just realize how powerful it is.
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And it definitely fuels the magic and fuels your passion of manifesting.
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So this week, we are talking about where your focus goes, your energy flows.
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As we spoke about last week
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and will continue to speak about is that the law
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of attraction works like a magnet so what
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you put your focus on is what will come
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back to you so have you
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ever had those weird serendipitous moments
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where you'll be talking or thinking about
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someone and then out of the blue they'll get in touch or
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you'll get a phone call or a text message well I had that
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exact thing happen to me yesterday and it
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happens all the time I was thinking about someone yesterday who
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I haven't seen or spoken to in a few years and who I really really love an old
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friend and I sent them a picture I saw an old picture of us and I sent them
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a picture and I and I said I miss you and they came back with loads of exclamation
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marks going, I cannot believe it.
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I was just thinking about you yesterday. Were your ears burning?
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I was talking about you yesterday. I miss you. Let's meet up. And.
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That's how I describe it one of those moments my focus was
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on this person and then out of the blue you
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know some people will call it coincidence it's definitely not
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it's where my focus was and that has been reflected back to me and that person
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has got in touch and I think you know this happens with my sister all the time
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as well that we'll be talking about like an old film or something we used to
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watch on the tv when we were younger and we'll both look at each other and we'll go go, well,
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I bet you that will be on the TV now.
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And then lo and behold, a week or two later, we'll, you know,
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text each other a picture and go, guess what's on the TV?
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And yeah, it's to do with what you're focusing on.
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So imagine now that what you're focusing on is not an old friend or a film that
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you watched many, many years ago,
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but in fact, your desires or your intentions, because Because where your focus
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goes, your energy flows.
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So if you're thinking about your desires and you're putting focus and energy
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into what it is that you want to manifest,
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if you can raise your vibrations while you're kind of focusing on your dreams,
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then those things will be reflected back to you in real form into your life.
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Life so this is why it's a really really good
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idea to create a vision board or
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a goal board or a wish board or a dream board whatever it is that you call it
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I call it a vision board I think many of you probably have done vision boards
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before we're going to talk about them today and how they can be really useful
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and perhaps I might be able to give you some more tips and different
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ways to help with your process of a vision board.
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I've certainly picked up some new tips and techniques that I've adapted recently
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and I've adopted into my life and onto my vision boards, and I've found them to be really.
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Really useful. So if you haven't done a vision board before,
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then what it is, it's a board or I actually use, I use a pin board at the moment,
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but I used to do it with a piece of card and it's putting words and pictures
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of your intention onto the board so that it becomes your board of your dreams
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and what it is that you want to manifest into your life.
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So I have bought a cork board.
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I actually did a new vision board in January and I used to, my old vision boards,
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I used to get a really big piece of cardboard and I used to cover that with
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pictures and words of everything it is that I kind of wanted to attract in.
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But this time I went and bought myself a cork board so that I can pin onto the
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board things that I want to manifest.
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And I found this really useful this time around, because I've actually been
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changing my board, adding things as I go.
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And it's quite nice with the pins that you can kind of easily take away and
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add and move things around as your focus and intentions change.
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Now, my last board I did, I have to talk to you about because it is the most
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amazing, magnificent manifesting story ever.
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And I've got some big things that have happened with manifesting but this particular
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thing that I put on my vision board still blows my mind when I think about it.
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So I'm going to take you back to five years ago when
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I was single and I was living on my
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own in a lovely flat that I
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had a lovely time in and I created a vision
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board and I got a piece of card a piece
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of cardboard and I went to the
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local wallpaper shop and I actually got a
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sample a few samples of really lovely wallpaper and
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this is a good idea that you could do to your vision
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board if you wanted to I got this really lovely piece of wallpaper and it was
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kind of purpley and kind of looked a bit universal and it had stars and it had
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glitter and I wrapped my piece of card in that and used sellotape to seal that.
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And then I put on this board pictures and words of all the kind of things that I wanted to attract.
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So I had, you know, a picture of engagement ring and I was single at the time, remember, and I had.
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Words like marriage and relationships soulmate and
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a list of qualities that I wanted in a partner I then
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had areas of my career that I wanted to kind
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of advance in fitness goals and then
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because I really wanted to
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kind of I've been single for a while and I had a lovely time being
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single I was really looking at
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this point to kind of settle down meet my soulmate
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and get a house of our own and kind
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of run off into the sunset and live happily ever
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after so I had
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a corner of my vision board and I think I'd
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had the list next to it of all the all
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the qualities that I was looking for in my perfect partner and
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to kind of create the whole picture I drew
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a picture of a house just with
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a felt tip pen on a plain piece of paper and
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I drew this picture of a house and it
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was a really kind of a simple drawing of just
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to represent kind of the final step
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of being with someone and having a house of our own and
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a garden and and the life it represented the life that I was kind of looking
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to manifest so I drew this image of a house and it looked a little bit cottagey
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and it was a double-fronted house with its windows and its little door and a
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and a tree three outside.
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And in the top right-hand window, I drew a couple.
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So I drew two stick people, one, a stick girl, which represented myself,
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and a stick man next to that picture of myself in the top right window, both waving.
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And that was just to represent myself with
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my new partner in my new house you
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know living happily ever after and I
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put that picture onto my vision
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board I then put this vision board away
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and carried on with my life and I was enjoying dating and I think it must have
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been around possibly maybe about six months later I met my partner my now our fiance, my soulmate.
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And we had a lovely couple of years dating together. And we moved into our house together.
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And I packed up my stuff in my flat, moved into this gorgeous new house. And.
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I was actually unpacking my things when my mum asked to look at my vision board,
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which I'd just unpacked.
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And she was the one that actually pointed out and she stopped and she went,
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oh my gosh, look at your vision board.
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And she was pointing to the picture of the house that I had drawn with the couple
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in the top right-hand corner of the window.
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And I couldn't believe it, The house that I had just moved into with my partner,
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with my soulmate, was identical to the house that I had drawn and put on my vision board.
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It was laid out exactly the same.
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The front door was in the same place.
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The windows were in the same place. There were the same amount of windows.
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The bricks were the same. and even more shockingly in the top right hand window
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where I had drawn the stick couple I,
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happens to just be the window of our master bedroom where myself and my partner sleep.
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And every morning without fail
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no matter what time of day it is when one
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of us leaves to go to work or to run an errand the other one of us waves out
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of that window at the other one and it's become such a lovely habit and it's
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become kind of a symbol that window has become a symbol of of our love together and our life together.
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And we never fail to do it. And it is the image on the vision board is completely
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mirrored, completely matched and mirrored in real life.
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And still to this day, I have still kept that vision board.
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I've still got it upstairs because a lot of the things on it have happened and have now manifested.
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And there are still a few things that I'm kind of looking to achieve from that. from that vision board.
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So do not underestimate how powerful a vision board can be and how exciting they are to make as well.
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So what you can do is you can gather things, start gathering things now to make your vision board.
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So you can grab magazines, newspapers, leaflets.
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These can be be used to kind of cut out pictures and words that you feel align with your desires.
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When I do a vision board I also like to go to the shop whether that's an art
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shop or I pop to Tesco and I get some stickers and some felt tip pens and you
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can buy some vision board kits online as well.
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I actually bought one recently and it came with some really lovely kind of postcards
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of images of just lovely images and you can kind of pick one or a few that align with your desires.
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And the big tip that I will give you when you're creating your vision board is to bring it to life.
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Put life and energy into creating a vision board because the more love and energy you put in,
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the better because this will raise your
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vibrations and it will help to put
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you on a higher frequency now we've
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spoken about this before but if you raise your vibrations that means that you
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will be feeling good you'll be feeling excited you'll be feeling happy and those
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energies and those feelings and thoughts are operating on a high vibe frequency
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and as the law of attraction works like like a magnet,
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even just the thought and the process of creating a vision board,
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those thoughts and feelings will be mirrored and you will automatically start thinking.
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Reflecting or bringing back in or magnetizing thoughts
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that match your vibrations and
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if you are focusing on your your
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dreams and your manifestations then one you are focusing on your manifestations
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and two you are raising your vibrations which means you are going to bring things
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back to you that match those vibrations and that match the desires that you
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have put on your vision board.
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So I did a vision board in January. I did a new vision board in January and I wrote some words on it.
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I think it's really important when you do a vision board, and we're going to
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go through kind of the steps to take in a second,
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but I think it's really important when you do a vision board to
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add pictures so that
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they are visually pleasing and that they excite you and
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it's like a lovely piece of artwork and I think
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it's good to also put in
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words so that you can be a bit more descriptive
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and can actually provide more
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detail as well for your manifestations so I think it's quite nice to have a
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combination of words and pictures and make it fun whilst you're whilst you're
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creating a vision board you could actually you could actually have people over
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and do it as a group or invite a friend around.
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I quite often, used to in the past, quite often have some friends around and
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we'd have a vision board night and a manifesting night.
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And it's really, it's a really lovely night.
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And there's something about being around people who are also wanting to manifest
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and who are also thinking about their desires That kind of fuels the passion and fuels the energy.
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So I think if you can do this with someone or with people, I think it's a really lovely exercise to do.
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And anything that fuels that energy is a bonus.
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That said, you don't have to do it with people. I quite often make them alone
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and I find them very therapeutic and you can get into a kind of a lovely calm zone.
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I'll quite often light a candle.
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I might put some music on.
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Sometimes I put a really lovely film on that is not going to distract me,
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but it just feels like your real happy place.
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Just creating the right environment to kind of start making your vision board.
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I think again the more love and energy you put into it the better.
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So once you've worked out how you're going to make your vision board the key
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areas that you should think about or that you could think about when you're
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creating your vision board are the following.
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So think about relationships so that could be relationships in your life already
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that you want to improve That could mean with your partner,
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your romantic partner, or it could be other relationships as well,
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like improving relationships, family relationships or friendships.
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You should also think about your career and business and work out what it is
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that you want to enhance that area of your life.
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Another area you can think about is health and physical body so that could be
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about improving your fitness or how you want to look in a bikini when you're going on go on on holiday,
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it could be thinking about health and ways to improve your health and how you
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see your vision of improving your health you can think about finances and how
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much you want to be be earning,
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how much income you want to be bringing in, what your dream amount is to have in your bank account.
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And you could think about travel goals.
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There are many areas of your life that you can think about adding to your vision board.
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So step one, whilst you are gathering all of the things that you can gather
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to create the physical vision board,
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it's really important that your first step is to clarify your vision and your intentions. So.
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This is the great thing about creating a vision board, is that it actually really
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forces yourself to reflect and dig deep about what it is that you really, really want.
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And take some time over that because you'd be surprised how many people,
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including myself at times, sometimes don't actually really know what it is that we want.
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So get clear, get clarity about
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your intentions and as you
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create your vision board they may
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you may find that those intentions will get
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clearer as you go so I actually created a vision board in January I thought
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it's time time to create a new board with new intentions and I sat down with
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all of my images and with a felt-tip pen and I thought all right,
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let's really think about this.
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And I sat there and it took me like a really long time to figure out what exactly it was.
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And anyway, I went on to create this vision board and, you know,
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I definitely had some of it right in the direction that I wanted to go.
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And some of it, I felt like I really had to kind of make up and kind of go,
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yeah, I guess, you know, I guess that's what I want. And then a month later.
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I'd put my vision board away. And a month later, I kept thinking of things.
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And I thought, oh, I know what it is that I want. And I've got more detail to provide.
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So I actually got my vision board out again.
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And firstly, I'd created, I'd actually drawn a few pictures,
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a few images, just in felt tip pen, and they were in black and white.
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And all of a sudden, I looked at this vision board. And I thought,
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no, it's not quite right. I took a couple of things off.
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And I added some more intentions. And then it sounds really simple,
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but I colored in my drawings and all of a sudden, my vision board came to life.
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It's like I actually suddenly activated the vision board.
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So this is where I'm saying that you probably even before you sit down to do
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your vision board, if you can get as clear as you can on your actual intentions.
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But that said, once you start to do your vision board, I think the process of
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that helps you to unravel all of the things that you've got in your head and
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in your life that you want to manifest in.
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And I think you can get real clarity on that. And that's one of the real perks
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of creating a vision board.
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And if you're adding images onto your vision board, which I would suggest that
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you do, if you're a visual like me, then get creative and make it into a work of art.
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When I look at my vision board, it makes me happy.
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I feel visually, it's visually exciting to look at.
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So I think the more creativity you can put into it, the more likely you'll feel good about it.
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And being creative is also a therapeutic task.
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So that will automatically help raise your vibrations anyway. way.
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So when we use images, images convey a huge amount of complex information to
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our brains in an instant.
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So this is why vision boards are so effective because by representing our life
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goals and our desired future in such an impactful way,
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vision boards are actually activating our subconscious mind to help us to make
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decisions that actually support our priorities in life.
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So it's not just a board full of wishes. It's not wishy-washy.
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It means that we're actually putting focus on what it is that we want.
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And remember, where your focus goes, your energy flows.
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So here are the pros of creating your vision board.
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It forces yourself to reflect and dig deep about what you really want.
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So it will give you clarity.
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It will ensure that your goals are the first thing that you think of every day
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and remember again where your focus goes your energy flows.
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It will inspire you and encourage you to look for things in life to support
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what it is that you desire.
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It will expand your sense of what is possible and will release the cap of what
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you think you are able to manifest.
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This step is really important and I
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mentioned earlier about getting a
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group together a group of friends together to do
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a vision board together which I think is a really lovely idea but here's something
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I want you to think about if you're doing that and I know that I've been guilty
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of this before so if you're doing a vision board with friends do not resist
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or hold back in putting seeing what it is that you really want on your board.
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And if you think that you shouldn't put something on it because you feel a little
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bit silly or that you think people might make fun of it or that you feel like
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the dream is too big that other people will kind of look down on it,
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then that means that you're kind of giving off the feeling that you're embarrassed
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to follow your dreams and that actually you're showing the universe that you
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don't believe that you will get it or that you're not worthy of receiving it
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because you think you should ask for less.
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This is really important that.
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You know, this mindset will limit your potential in manifesting your goals.
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There really, really is no limit into what you can manifest.
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The only limit is within your own mindset.
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And for an example, people will ask, well, you know, why can't I'm really good at manifesting?
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Why can't I manifest one million pounds in my bank account by next week?
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And that is because deep down in
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your subconscious your thoughts aren't
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aligned with you thinking that that is actually possible so you therefore think
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you need to put something slightly more realistic down when you're manifesting
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and to a certain degree when you're starting out there is a degree of that test
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yourself see what you're capable of manifesting so yes we'd all love a million
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pounds in our bank account.
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And the more you work on your mindset and just absolutely removing all limitations,
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then you can manifest whatever it is that you want.
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But just remember, as I said, if you're doing that in a group setting,
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you think, oh, I'll pop that on my board later when no one's around,
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then just bite the bullet and put whatever you truly
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want to manifest on that board without limitations.
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So back to the pros of a vision board. So I'm just going to repeat that one
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again so that that goes in.
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That's expanding your sense of what is possible and releasing the cap of what
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you think you are capable of manifesting.
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Another pro is that it will remind you of what is really important and actually
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reminds you not to sweat the small stuff.
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These things on your vision board are what you really, really want to manifest
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and what really going to improve your life. Do not sweat the small stuff.
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It is wasted negative energy, worry, anxiety, wasted energy.
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Another pro to making a vision board is that
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it will encourage you to let go
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of what no longer serves you and
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in your life and those things that actually you
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can let go of that don't align with your
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desires once you see on your board of
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what it is that you actually want to manifest you
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realize that you can get let go of all those things that are
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dragging and holding you back and that no longer serve you we do grow as people
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and sometimes it's important to take stock and to release these things that
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no longer serve us and that could be anything from relationships to jobs to feelings to hobbies.
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Also making a vision board is fun. It is fun and fun is going to raise your
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vibrations and when you're feeling good and you're feeling excited you will
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attract more things to feel good and feel excited about.
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So please don't hold back. Take, you know, as you're listening to this podcast,
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start thinking about all the things that you want and maybe that you've never
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even dreamed may have been possible
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because you can manifest absolutely anything. There are no limits.
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So don't hold back. And if you can, regarding me talking about feeling embarrassed,
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perhaps put something on your vision board in case someone sees it.
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You need to remember that if you can
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speak what you want into existence
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then you are activating your manifestations so if you're keeping these things
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to yourself and thinking I really really want to manifest that thing but I'm
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not going to say it out loud because it might seem a bit far-fetched or I'm
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not going to tell anyone that I'm going to keep it to myself if you can speak it aloud,
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you are activating your manifestations.
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You need to get so comfortable in what it is that you want to manifest.
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Talk about it, think about it, focus on it.
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And the more you get comfortable with it, the more it doesn't feel like it's
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so out of reach. So get comfortable.
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So there's another manifesting story that I have to tell you about.
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And it's something that happened recently.
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And it was to do with the vision board that I made for myself in January.
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So I had all of these little postcards that had lovely, lovely images on.
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It would be like someone swimming in the sea or someone exercising.
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And they were just really lovely visual aids to use.
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So I popped a a couple of those on my vision board that
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kind of aligned with words so if I
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said you know this you'll want to focus on getting really
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fit and healthy and then I'd put a picture of the woman running for
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example so one of the pictures that I took out of my postcards was a picture
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of a yacht in a sunset on on the sea and it was just a lovely lovely picture
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and as soon as I picked it up it
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spoke to me and I pinned it to my
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vision board in the travel section of where I was kind of
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just saying I want manifesting some lovely holidays and
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travel with my partner so I pinned this
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on the vision board and it was just to kind of beef out and kind of just yeah
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just a part kind of added visual aid really to my to my vision board so what
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I do is that every now and again I have a a look at my vision board.
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Maybe every few months I have a look.
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And so I made this vision board in January.
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I had no holidays planned at this point.
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And just a couple of months ago, I was moving a few things around and I actually
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keep the vision board in my inner cupboard near my bed.
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And we'll talk about where to put your vision boards in a second.
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But I got it out recently because I wanted to add a few more details to it. And I've
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I was absolutely floored when I was reminded of the picture of the yacht that
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I had put on my manifesting vision board.
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So when I put that picture of the yacht on my vision board, I didn't kind of
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have anything specific with that.
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It just represented travel, represented luxury travel.
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So I was floored because just a couple of months earlier, I was very,
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very lucky enough to be invited on a yacht trip.
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And it was four or five nights abroad in somewhere absolutely stunning on a
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yacht to stay on a yacht. Now, I've never stayed on a yacht before.
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It was a brand new experience for me. And I want to use the phrase once in a lifetime.
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However, I'm not going to use that because that suggests that I'm not worthy
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of it again or that I'm not going to manifest it again.
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But I could not believe it that
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I had enjoyed this magnificent holiday
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that was completely complimentary
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because I was invited on by someone and I could not believe that it was on my
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vision board and what's furthermore to that that blows my mind even more is
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that the picture of the yacht the actual yacht,
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was practically identical to the yacht that I'd holidayed on just a couple of months ago.
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And I still cannot believe it just shows what with that story and the story of me drawing my house.
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It just goes to show that really, really think about what it is that you want
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to put on this vision board.
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I cannot tell you, I've lost count of the times that these kind of things have
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happened where you go, I didn't even mean to manifest that, but actually it's
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on my vision board and that has manifested.
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So I've still got that on my vision board along with other things that I put on there in January.
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And every time I look at it, I feel excited. I feel excited.
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And I just touched briefly upon a second ago about the fact that actually I
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update my vision board from time to time.
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Now last week on last week's podcast I asked you to kind of get in touch and
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with any questions that you have about manifesting and thank you to all those
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people that did get in touch with all of your questions.
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Now there were a couple of questions that came through which really tie in with today's podcast.
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One of those questions was, can you update your vision board?
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So the answer is absolutely 1000%. Yes, absolutely update it.
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Like I mentioned before, when I felt that
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I did mine and I definitely feel like I
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needed to add to it as I became clearer
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my mind became clearer my intentions
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had more clarity so therefore I felt
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the absolute need to update my vision
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board and I actually do this whenever I
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feel the need and if you don't feel the need
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then it's good just to check your vision board every couple
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of months anyway or every six months just to see
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how you're getting on and to see if there's
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anything thing that you want to change we all grow and we we go in different
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directions and sometimes we change or adapt what it is that we want to manifest
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so you know like I said I added to mine I took some things away and what I quite
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often do is when I check in with my vision board.
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Some of the big things that I'm looking to manifest are still there but I might
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be able to to provide more detail about those things.
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And I think that's really important. And we're going to talk about this in another episode.
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But it's about providing as much detail as you can about what it is that you want to manifest.
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The more detail you can have, the better.
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So when I was trying to manifest my soulmate, I had my vision board.
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This is the vision board that I'd drawn the picture of my house, my future house on.
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And I had the word soulmate and marriage and happy relationship.
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And I wrote a list of all the things and attributes that I was looking for in my perfect partner.
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And I'd quite often add to them. I might have had a date with someone that kind
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of thought, actually, I'm really looking for someone who is charismatic or loyal
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or affectionate or knows what they want or has got their shit together.
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So sometimes it's about going back and providing more detail.
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This is absolute top, top, top tip in anything you are trying to manifest.
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Provide detail. detail if even if
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that's when you're visualizing provide detail so
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if you're imagining them visualizing a new
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car what color is it what does
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it smell like where do you want to drive in it what adventures do you want to
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have in it just provide as much detail as you can because the more detail you
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provide and the more energy you can give that remember where your focus goes your energy flows.
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So if you're focusing on all those details, you are going to get those details
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and those energies back to you.
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Another question that I received on via Instagram, if you're not following me,
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I would please, please do because I love to hear your manifesting stories.
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I'm at thehollyedwards on Instagram and at the Holly Edwards on TikTok.
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Please get in touch. If you're making vision boards or you have any manifesting questions,
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please either DM me or tag me when you're making your vision boards because
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it's also lovely for me to see people manifesting.
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It helps boost and raise my energies and my vibrations and it inspires me and
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it also gives me ideas about things that I can add to my own vision board.
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Someone recently got in touch to tell me that they actually just had a list
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on their phone and that's their vision board.
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And I actually loved this idea and it's not something that I had done before.
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So I actually adopted it myself.
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And I thought it's such a great idea because actually it's mobile.
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You can update it on the go. I like that you can just check in.
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Very quickly or every now and again on the
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move perhaps you're on the train and you're and you're
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going to work and you think actually I'm just going to check in quickly with my
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vision board and my intentions and again it's another
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way of getting really clear on what your intentions are so I really really love
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that idea and I've actually started doing that myself now so thank you for that
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inspiration the other thing you can do if you want another a mobile vision board on the go,
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is to create your own vision board on your phone through Pinterest.
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Because Pinterest has some amazing images.
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And again, you can get creative. And if you've got, if you're commuting,
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you've got a long journey, what a great way to spend your time,
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just for even 10 minutes a day, just adding to your Pinterest and getting clear
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on what it is that you want.
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And the good thing on Pinterest is, you know, say you're trying to manifest
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a new kitchen, you know, to start getting in ideas on Pinterest,
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the more that you focus on these details, the likelihood is that you are going
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to manifest those things in just as much detail.
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And in terms of our quote for the day, which is, where your focus goes, your energy flows.
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In terms of focusing on things and those serendipitous moments that I talked
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about at the start of the podcast,
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it really reminds me of this story actually when I lived
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in Australia quite a long time ago maybe sort of
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15 maybe even 20 years ago and I
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didn't have much money at the time and I'd moved over there and I really needed
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to get myself a car and I was in Byron Bay and I saw this car go past with a
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for sale sign on the side and I thought, that's the car I want.
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It was a little Jeep and I thought, I'm going to look so cool in that car driving along the beach.
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I could get my surfboards on it and I thought, that's the car I want and it whizzed past me.
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And I didn't see it again that day. And I thought, I need to find this car.
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And I kept the picture and the image of this car in my mind.
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Now, I didn't know about manifesting at this point.
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But I kept it in, I kept the image in my head, not because I was trying to manifest
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because I knew nothing about it, but because I was desperate to find a car like that.
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So I kept thinking oh it was it was green and
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it had a little you know soft top on the back and anyway a
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week later I was in another town and I saw the
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car again and this time I
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managed to go up and I got the number that was written on
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it if you wanted to buy it but the price was kind of
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a bit too steep for me so I wrote down the number anyway I
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could not stop thinking about this car and over the next
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coming weeks I went to different towns
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and I saw this car it must have
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been I reckon up to about eight or
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nine times I saw this car in different areas different towns different kind
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of car parks and I thought I cannot believe I actually thought this car is meant
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for me because it keeps coming to me and that is because that's where my focus
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was I kept that image in my head.
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So eventually I called the number and I offered them a lower price.
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I said, look, this is what I've got.
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Would you sell it to me? And they sold it to me. And then I was driving around
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in that car for a couple of years when I lived there.
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And when I really think back now, a lot of manifesting sometimes is common sense.
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But at that time, I fully manifested that car into my life because that's where my focus was.
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Another question that somebody wrote to me, which ties in perfectly with our
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vision board chat today, is how often should you do a vision board?
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Now, there are no set limits to this.
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Whatever works for you is fine. Now, personally, I would say on average,
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I probably do one vision board every one or two years.
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Now, you could do your vision board.
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A lot of people like to do them in the new year
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and do one a year kind of you know new year
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new you new intentions I like
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to do mine about once a year but what I normally find that when I do my vision
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board is when I'm actually feeling a bit lost or directionless that's when I
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do my vision board and I find that kind of when I am lost I find that doing the vision board really
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helps to ground me and kind of puts me back on the right path and inspires me
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and gives me passion about life and the things that I want to achieve.
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So if you are feeling that way, then I think it's a really good time to do your vision board.
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And what I would then do is just check in every now and again,
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maybe kind of do a six month check and
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just check in and see what it
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is that you have achieved from your vision
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board and you know what's still
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outstanding and perhaps things that maybe need
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a little bit more of your focus just to
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just to check your progress and you can add or remove some of your goals as
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life you know changes and works around us so once you've finished your vision
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board and you're happy with it and you've done your work of art or if it's It's
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also just fine to do words.
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If you are a words person, you can do a vision board with just words as well.
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And that is absolutely fine if that works for you.
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So once you finish your vision board, I personally like to put it away.
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So once I put all my desires onto my vision board, I feel like I have placed
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my order and I put my board away. So just like ordering from Amazon,
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I make my order and then I wait for it to be delivered.
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I don't keep checking up on the order and keep it out every day to see if I need to order it again.
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And that's why I like to put mine away. Now, I did used to leave mine out in full view.
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So it was the first thing I saw in the morning and the last thing I saw when
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I went to bed. Now, if you feel this feels right for you, you can.
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But here's my thought on it.
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The most important step when you're manifesting is to relinquish control to
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the universe over when and how your manifestations will come to fruition.
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So I find that by leaving your vision board out and in constant view,
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it's like every time you look at it, you're wishing and it can kind of promote
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a feeling of desperation.
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Because every time you look at it, you're wishing and wanting and it's almost
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as though you're not concentrating on the now and concentrating on being content in the now.
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And that's another really important side of manifesting is that you put out
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what it is that you want to manifest,
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but you also then learn and work your life through feeling content and happy
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in the now, even to the point where if your manifestations didn't come true, you would feel happy.
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So having your
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vision board out I think can promote this slight
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feeling of desperation and showing you
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all the things that you want so badly
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that you don't have yet and so
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you get that feeling that feeling
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of want instead of feeling as though
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your manifestations have have already been
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answered and that they're already on their way to you and
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I think then by putting it away and put it somewhere reachable
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somewhere that you can get it get it easily and
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I think when you then do get your vision board out it feels exciting you can
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kind of look over and think oh wow yes I forgot I'd put that on there or that
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looks really exciting and you know just time to time you can check in and you
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can make that kind of a lovely process of checking in.
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So I will be running some group vision board
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making sessions on on webinars soon so please
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keep your eyes peeled and if you are interested in
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that please just get in touch so I know that how many people would be interested
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and I think it'd be really lovely to kind of do it in a group setting you know
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you don't have to be on camera if you don't want to be on camera but you know
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we We can talk through the vision board process and you can imagine,
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use kind of everybody's energy around you just to kind of help fuel your manifestation.
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So we will, I will be hosting some group webinars. So keep your eyes peeled for that.
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If you are going to make your vision board after this, then happy vision board making.
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Enjoy getting your creative juices flowing. And if you do decide to make your
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boards, please do tag me.
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As like i say i just like to feel inspired and i
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just love to check in and see how everybody's getting on with
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their manifesting so that is it for me this week if you have any manifesting
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questions anything at all please dm me at the holly edwards on instagram i really
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want to hear your your your stories and your questions,
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So this week, I just want you to remember, where your focus goes,
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your energy flows. Goodbye.
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Music.