Today I want to share another ‘ah ha’ moment with you.  But first for those of you who missed my post about my Vision Board you may want to go back and read it so that you will understand the rest of this post.

Before I tell you what happened this morning I want to remind you of what my vision board looks like.

Lately I’ve been looking at it and thinking it needs a good update since there are a couple of things on it that I’ve already achieved, things I want to ‘renew’ my focus on and other goals floating around in my head that I need to get out before I forget them.  I’ve been thinking that when I update my vision board maybe I should set more realistic goals.  When I look at where I am today and where I’ve set my sights (goals) it seems so far fetched – on the boarder of being unrealistic and impossible.

I know it’s kind of hard to see it on my vision board, but I’ve posted a picture of an Audi A8 – my dream car.  Lately I’ve been looking at my dream car and thinking, maybe that’s too much to hope for.  Maybe I should lower my sights (expectations) to something more achievable…. like say a really nice Toyota Camry.  After all, I’ve had good luck with Toyotas.

And then I had my “Ah ha” moment.

This morning I had a meeting with a few other fabric shop owners.  I know that seems odd, but honestly the other fabric shop owners are a GREAT group of women.  I feel incredibly lucky to be a fabric store owner in Minnesota!   The ones who have been in business the longest have been so incredibly open and helpful to those of us who are just starting out.  One would think the opposite to be true, and frankly I can’t explain why it’s different with this group – but it just is.  Maybe we all watched the same episode of Oprah when she talked about the power of abundance and playing nice together.

But I digress from my story, this morning when I arrived at our meeting I couldn’t find parking close enough (i.e., right next to the door) so I pulled into the “Tenants” parking spot hoping that since it was early Sunday morning I wouldn’t be taking someone elses parking spot.  No such luck, before I even put my car into park one of the ladies came out and said I couldn’t park there, but to park my car over next to “Mary’s” car.  (Mary is one of the other fabric shop owner.)

My “ah ha” moment came the second I laid eyes on Mary’s car; it was a Audi TT Coupe!!  It hit me right then and there that I wasn’t setting my sights too high, I wasn’t setting them high enough!

I believe everything happens for a reason, sometimes the reason is obvious right away, and sometimes the reason takes years to reveal itself.  I believe that had I not seen Mary’s car I would have lowered my expectations and updated my vision board to those goals and dreams that I know I could easily achieve.  In that “Ah ha” moment I was reminded that the purpose of a vision board is not to dream small, but to dream big.  I should be envisioning those things that are my hopes and dreams.  Right now those hopes and dreams are just thoughts, but the vision board has taught(and retaught) me that if I can think them, then I can achieve them.   “Thoughts become things. If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.”  — Bob Proctor

I’ve achieved a handful of things on my vision board, I KNOW it works!  So the thought of lowering my expectations seems just plain silly – I see that now.  My ah ha moment made that crystal clear!   So now I’m going to work on updating my vision board and I’m taking down that picture of the Audi A8 and in its place I’m putting this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can totally see myself in this car!  Can’t you?