Why my Vision board not working

January – I am sure you have read many posts, videos or attend workshops about how to build your vision board, how to set goals and etc. Looking at your last year vision board (if you have made one), anything come true, it may not be exactly the way you expected but it’s good enough to make you feel happy, or not one picture in that vision board shown in my reality, not even a tiny bit. (e.g still single, same weight as last year).

No matter whatever you put in your vision boards and whether it has happened or not, have you wondering why it happen or why not happen.

Would you be interested if I can tell you from my personal experience.

For me, 2022 was a dramatic year. The first 6 months were kind of happy and exciting mode. I got promoted in my job and built up my side business at the same time.

Workload was increased and I also started my coaching and kinesiology business. My mind hardly has time to rest or play but I loved it. When you love what you are doing, no matter how hard or tired, it really doesn’t matter. I was so enjoyed my busy life, still smiling while I lacked of sleep.

As usual, change happens. I definitely would not want anyone to experience it. I lost my job and relationship meltdown without a sign at the same time. I was put into a state of emotional turmoil. A lot of questions in my mind without answer, ask ‘why’ just wasting time and energy. Someday, my emotion could be out of control and I feel so stuck.

Today, I looked at the pictures in 2022 vision board. My little voice said ‘You did it…’. In my side hustle, I was able to expand my service offering face-to-face session and achieved my income target. Thinking back, I nearly teared up all that pictures in August, I said to myself ‘you’re dreaming, forget it this year. Whatever happen is not same as my plan.’

How I achieved it even though there have so many things happened in 2022. Each instances seems putting the stop sign in front of me, ask me to go other way. I find the most important and also the most difficult part is handling (control) our emotion state.

When our emotion is high, intelligence is low. Life changing event put our emotion in the roller-coaster, go up and down, up and down. You definitely want to and try to get off to that roller-coaster, but you are back there again and again.

Our intelligent brain also serves us well, like a mega computer immediately pulls out some old memories in similar situations, make sure we have enough data. We think about the current event, analyse the past data day and night, make sure we don’t get hurt or make wrong decision. As Tony Robbins said ‘Where Focus goes, energy flows'.

We use all our energy to analyse the past, trying to not get hurt, how we can move forward?

As kinesiologist and NLP trainer, I use my NLP skill to get off the emotion roller-coaster daily, kinesiology to balance my energy so that I have clear mindset to handle the difficult conversation and focus on what I really want.

My new program ‘Embrace the past, create the future’ would definitely support and guide you stay calm, no matter how low or how high you are at. Stayed tuned !

If you want to know more how to create your vision board, you could visit my previous post - Vision Board.