Is Your Dream Board Killing Your Progress?

Do you ever feel like everything you want is JUST out of reach?

Do you ever feel completely frustrated, stuck or unmotivated?

Well - your dream board could be to blame!

If you’ve read a few motivational or manifestation books in your time, you’re probably familiar with the concept of creating a Dream Board. Maybe you already have one.

If you haven’t heard of a dream board, it’s essentially a collage of images and words that you pull together and display to represent the life you want to create for yourself. So it might include achievements you want to accomplish, money goals, fitness goals, business goals, travel, the kind of house you want to live it, the kind of people you want to surround yourself with, how you want to feel about yourself, how you want to give back in the world and experiences you want to create.

It’s basically a visual representation of all of the dreams you have for your life.

If you don’t already have one, it’s definitely a powerful exercise to do. Having that visual representation of the life you want hanging in a prominent position in your house for you to look at every day can be incredibly motivating.

So your dream board is designed to act as a source of inspiration. A reminder of why you’re doing what you’re doing. A tool to help visualise and manifest what you want to attract. For some people, that in itself is enough to get them moving towards their goals.

Sounds pretty good right?

Soooo why does the title of this article make it sound like a bad thing?

Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE my dream board, but when I wasn’t QUITE making the progress I wanted to see in my business and my life (ok, ok, I was broke and my business was going NOWHERE fast) my dream board started to become a source of frustration and angst.

It represented everything I wanted but didn’t have.
It represented a life that felt so far away.
It made me feel lack.
It made me angry at myself - WHY am I not DOING this stuff already?

When I felt the most stuck in my life, my dream board became more of a DE-motivator than an inspiration. It made me feel further and further away from what I wanted and made me start to question if I’d ever get there.

It was drawing attention (sub-consciously at least) to the fact that what I had in my life already, wasn’t enough.

That I wasn’t enough.

So allow me to introduce you the dream board’s forgotten baby brother.
What I call my Reality Board.

It’s a board that I hang right next to my dream board that displays everything I have in my life NOW that I’m grateful for. My husband, our kids, my extended family, my closest friends, my health, our house, where we live, the travel we’ve done, achievements I’m proud of and more.

When I first created my reality board, I was mainly doing it to create an ACTION step.

Because the images I had on my dream board were always going to stay in my dreams unless I found a way to bring them into my reality.

So symbolically, I wanted to create that action of achieving a dream and moving it across to my reality board.

Interestingly though, when I came up with the idea for this reality board, I thought that maybe it would only start out being half full and then I’d fill the gaps as I achieved the goals on my dream board. But as I started to put it together, I realised that I didn’t even have enough room on the board to display everything I already have in my life that I’m grateful for.

I had been so fixated on my dream board and everything that I wanted that I DIDN’T have, that I was under-valuing the amazing life I already had around me.

I can’t even begin to tell you how powerful that realisation was and I had barely even got started. I hadn’t even included the food in our fridge, the clothes on our backs, the air we breathe.

Adding that board to my wall created a massive shift for me in two ways:

1) It forced a daily practice of gratitude. I couldn’t look at that board without feeling incredibly grateful for everything on it. Any time I looked at it, I would pause, reflect and give thanks for the people, experiences and achievements in my life. It made me remember that I HAVE more than enough, that I AM more than enough already.

2) Equally important, it gave me that action step. It gave those images on my dream board a purpose. Their goal was now to move from dream land into reality. I was no longer keeping them at arms length by calling them dreams, I was actively looking for ways to move them from my future into my present.

And I can tell you, there was no sweeter feeling than being able to move an image from one board to the other. There may or may not be a lot of dorky happy dancing going on.

If you don’t already have a dream board, I definitely recommend creating one. It is an incredibly effective manifestation tool.

But make sure you pair it with a reality board.

Practice gratitude for what you already have while you consciously and actively call in everything else you want to create.

It’s kinda hard to stay stuck when you’re doing both.

It’s YOUR Time For More!
Melinda Kitto
xx

www.melindakitto.com