Vision Boarding this Weekend - Will You Join Me?

Whether you came here fresh from my eZine or an altogether more random way, welcome to my weekend open house invitation to play, get healthy and get excited!

As mentioned in my eZine this weekend I am sans Luke, my Duracell battery of a son, who is going to stay with daddy for a week. While the urge to go out and boogie is as strong as ever, I need sleep more and I’m sure I can wait til next week! Well... maybe ;)

So for this weekend, a different kind of fun is afoot. I’m going to share with you my plans and then I invite you to carbon copy them, do any parts of them that appeal to you, or simply to print it off and save for another time. Whatever you choose, I’m diving straight in now as I can’t wait to get started:

(NB: If you are new to vision boards or vision books, please read here first)

Saturday morning

Working out first thing, taking care of errands and shopping for the following:

• 4 large bags of organic baby spinach
• 8 cucumbers
• 2 bags carrots
• 2 boxes strawberries
• 2 large bags of oranges
• 2 large pineapples
• 3 bunches of celery
• 3 lemons
• 2 bags of apples
• 2 avocadoes
• 1 box tomatoes

Then, off to the stationers for:
(I already have these but you may not...)

• 1 large artists book OR 1 large sheet of card OR a few small sheets of card
• Glue stick
• Sharp scissors
• A pile of glossy magazines
• Stickers or craft supplies

Saturday afternoon

1) Make lunch comprising: 1 large green juice (my favourite, Green Goddess Elixir Juice, can be found here) followed by something light and raw food/s that you desire (a juice will suffice for me, but I may have some raw ice-cream on hand for later in the day!)

2) Get all materials together – book or card, scissors, glue, magazines and coloured pens or crayons. You may also want to bring in some stickers or craft materials.
I’ll be using a book like before, but if you’ve chosen card simply adapt as necessary to split your sheet/s the way you want to.

3) Get ready to settle down for the serious business of .... DREAMING BIG!

4) I shall get my book, open to the first white page and...
I’ll leave this blank until the end, when I can see what I have created and wished for, but when I come back it will be the title page of my book and/or a few carefully chosen words and will have a handwritten card to myself pasted into the middle of the page or inside front cover with whatever pledge or words of support I choose to give myself in order to make what follows on the following pages come into my reality. (Have never done this before, but cool idea don’t you think?!)

5) Next page: Completely up to you what you choose to go on your first montage page but here’s some possibilities:

• Health
• Fitness
• Raw Diet &/or Lifestyle
• Love/ Relationships
• Friends & Fun
• Family
• Hobbies/ Passions/ “Things I’d Love to Do”
• Money & Financial
• Career
• House & Home
• Body & Image
• My Inner Self
• My Outer Self
• My Christmas/ Birthday List
• My Dream Job
• My New Office
• Where I’m Spending Christmas/ New Year
• Etc.

As you can see, you are only limited by your imagination on this one.

6) For me, I will be starting with an overarching theme for the next 6 months, random images of what I want to show up in my life. Here’s a photo of one I made a year or two ago to show you how these pages may look.

7) My next page will likely be all about clothes. Right now I am MAD passionate about clothes, even more so than usual. Usually I have more than a penchant for shoes, but right now they’ve been superseded by clothes, having realised in just the past three weeks or so that most of my clothes no longer feel right – ugh! (I’ll be sharing more about this soon).

8) Beyond that, I’m not going to predict. I want the process to flow, and I encourage you to do the same. You may find that your imagination and permission takes you in all kinds of unpredicted directions – a very good thing!

Now, this whole process may take as little as a couple of hours or an entire day! It depends on how clear you are on what you want and how many pages you create, but those of you who are old hands at this may find yourself done and dusted by tea time!

Speaking of which, I heartily recommend my Successfully Raw Recipe of the Week – Happy Juice – at this point. Whether it’s for drinking while making your vision book or as a celebratory toast at the end, that matters not. This drink will make you feel happy at any time of day.

For dinner, I have no clue what I’ll be eating Saturday night, but it may be nori rolls or crudités and dip. It depends how much ice-cream I did or didn’t eat during the afternoon : )

Early to bed with a DVD methinks this week. Very rarely do I do this and I LOVE to do this providing I get into bed before 10pm. I’ll have to see what’s new in Blockbuster tomorrow morning...

Sunday – start with a green juice and then a trip to the gym. Sunday mornings at the gym may sound like a bind to many, but to me they’re a luxury! Usually I am knee high in wooden cranes and tractors, or watching Charlie and Lola drink pink milk while snuggling Luke on the sofa.

As for the rest of the day, it depends on whether I get my VB finished on Saturday, BUT I do have some good old fashioned de-junking to do. My office is looking very organised right now but there’s still a little more to do. Once that’s done, who knows where the mood will take me? Maybe I shall go dancing after all : )

Talking of dancing, here's Jo, me and Katie before my birthday night out two weekends ago. Yes we boogied hard that night - all the way to 3am - or was it 4?! Either way, even though I may have been the oldest birthday girl in the club, we had a ton of fun and I can't wait for more.

PS: Click through to see who our mystery camera man was that night...

 

Comments

[Karina]

Awww the wee man!!! How cuuuuute!!! You look so gorgeous on your birthday night out.

My husband and I are VBing this weekend - we are with you!

K xxx

[Marta - Rawvolta]

Karen..
I am so glad that this blog is BASED on raw food lifestyle and not only ABOUT.
We, raw foodist ( or however we're called ) come to this point when one is so saturated with raw food topic that it is a bit "flat".
Not boring, but after some time it's good to talk about WHAT was influenced by raw foodism or actually peak performance nutrition.
I love the idea of a vision board.
I have mine and will gladly share with you as soon as I get home.
I have my notebook with me all the time and you could see my yelling pink color of a pen saying : "IDEA!" all over the book, where I put the "Aha Feelings" . Ideas..gosh, I love them.
Also - what I am going to write about today on my website rawfoodtip.com , ART became even more important for me then before raw food journey.
And what is really noticeable - abstract art...
By connecting more to the earth , I started having these excitement about splashes of color or texture, which was a bit hermetic before.
So- Vision Boards, Goal Setting, Art - it is all a part of a raw food journey.
I love what you do, Karen and keep it up, Girl!
Wish You All The Best!
Marta - Rawvolta.

[Naomi]

Belated Happy Birthday wishes to you Karen!
... you and Katie and Jo look sensational. Love your dress, and it so evident that all of your hard work training/running/working out has literally redesigned your body! Your "inner Rita" is shining, gal! <--- That's an inside comment from when I took Karen's "Raw Passion" on-line coaching seminar a few months back: See this video clip for exactly what I mean by unleashing one's inner Rita: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzg_1XwzG08

Well, I turned my sister on to your newsletter a few months back and then on to your live interview w/ Kevin Gianni for RAWKATHON, and she fell in love with the things you shared. Most especially how it is "NOT really about the food." I missed the second half of your interview so now I'll have to invest (when I can) in the series ... but the first half was terrific.

I'm still settling into my new digs and so thrilled that I have MY OWN KITCHEN! I just printed out your special workbook on kitchen design, etc. and am working out just how I want it to look ... right down to the knobs on the cabinets. I cannot tell you what a thrill it is to have my own place ... and no longer needing to schlep up and down a long flight of stairs just to use a sink to wash out my blender! :-)

Well, Karen ... I've rambled on here, but what's new?! Just popped in to say how much I enjoyed your terrific interview ... it was "streamin' live from on High" indeed; or as you might say, you were "downloading" bigtime!

xx Naomi in NY

[Kristen's Raw]

How fun!!!

[jasmine scalesciani]

HI KAREN,

just wanted to tell you how i absolutely LOVE what you are creating here... it feels so authentically empowering and totally YOU : )

xo
jasmine