I wasn’t looking for it.
I was just wandering the store the way you do when you have nowhere specific to go. Then I saw it. A little kit. Prepacked and sitting on the shelf with the journals and the sticky notes, like it had been waiting there for me.
A vision board kit.
Now, I will be honest. My first thought was to keep walking. I have rolled my eyes at vision boards before. Magazine cutouts, the idea that arranging pictures on a poster board somehow counts as a plan. It always felt a little too unrealistic for me. I am a maker. I believe in craft and process and showing up and doing the actual work.
But I picked it up anyway.
And then I bought it.
I brought it home, laid it all out, and started pinning cards to a corkboard. No plan. No framework. Just an afternoon and a box of little teal cards that said things like breathe and I am enough, and I give myself permission to pause.
This was not the vision board I needed. But it was the one who opened the door.
Because somewhere between pinning down “I move my body daily” and “I am exactly where I need to be right now,” I felt something. Not because the cards were magic. Because the act of choosing, of deciding what belongs and what doesn’t, of making something visible that had only been in my head, felt like something real.
I want more of that. Done more intentionally. With a real framework behind it. Built around my actual life, my actual business, my actual Elementally Blooming Self.
So I decided, I’m doing this the right way. And I’m bringing you with me.
Over the next three posts, I am walking you through the whole process.
Part 1 covers what vision boards actually are when you strip away the manifestation fluff, and gives a framework and philosophy built around something I am calling your Elementally Blooming Self.
Part 2 is where we will build. I walk you through a framework, what each one asked me, and what surprised me about what came up.
Part 3 is about what you do with it after. How you move from a pretty board to an actual compass for your life and/or your business.
This little kit from Barnes and Noble started it. But where we are going is a lot more specific than teal cards and a corkboard.
Come on. Let's go.