Discovering What You Want

I remember a time in my life feeling clueless as to what I wanted out of it. People around me seemed to know what they wanted,  yet I couldn't tell you what excited me in the very least. I was numb....I was so tired of the daily grind I couldn't even begin to tell you what I was really, really passionate about.

Books started to fall into my lap....
The Artist Way by Julia Cameron
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Dark Nights of the Soul by Thomas Moore
The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

...a few to say the least. I started reading. For nearly two years, I read and read and read and read. I read myself out of the whole.

But my mother, who is a life coach specializing in children, is the one who gave the greatest suggestion. "What about a Vision Board?" She'd say. "A Vision Board?" I responded, "What the hell is that?"

Well, below become my first Vision Board. You see, what I was searching for was so simple. I was looking for some great answer but it lay in small cut outs and notes to self. I wanted to learn to play fiddle like Michael Doucet of Beau Soleil, I wanted to rock the guitar, I wanted to re-visit the Arc de Triomph, I wanted to sit on the beach in Hawaii, I wanted to "work no more", I wanted the small purple flip flops, I wanted to lie in the grass everyday like the girl in the photo and I wanted her sunglasses. I think you get the point.

So, homework assignment for readers: get a vision board!!!! Start your cut outs! And start cutting and pinning your way to discovering what you want.