How life can change after you make your first vision board…

Where, oh where, have the months gone?

A quick summary…

1. Was invited to a vision board workshop at beautiful ranch in Topanga a few weeks after arriving in LA. (Hadn’t even heard of vision board workshops before this). Met the fantastic ‘certified vision board facilitator’ (Ditto).

2. Competition to win a one-hour session with said facilitator. Guess who won it? That’s right. Me. Shock number two – she hands me her card. She is an editor and I am writing a novel. My novel includes a vision board (*insert twilight zone music here*).

3. Had a fantastic session with said facilitator. She suggested using it to look at my book since we’d made vision boards at the workshop. Judith Fine-Sarchielli. Fantastic editor, vision board coach, and Tuscan chef (she lived in Italy for 20 years)

4. Re-wrote some of book as a result and uploaded to ‘Authonomy’ website run by Harper Collins. Bit of a time-consuming site but worthwhile for feedback.  My pen name is ‘Amelia Field’.

5. Volunteered to help Judith with vision board workshop. Watch this space…

6. Now have a second updated vison board made at the workshop. Love it. Also made one to depict my book’s plot at Judith’s suggestion. Amazingly useful. Made a third vision board for friend who gave me a wonderful intuitive healing session. Her professional name is ‘Loving Essence’. First time I’d had anything like that and I felt a bit awkward but she was so kind and wonderful that it was a complete pleasure and very interesting. Board I made was themed around ‘gratitude’ (pic below). Another idea from Judith. Vision boards as gifts! Great idea.

7. Loving LA.

By the sea (or ocean). Board in transit somewhere!

I’m in the United States now, living in a beautiful place by the sea or ‘ocean’ as people say in the States. The other day I walked down to the beach and saw a lot of people running, a large number of sailing boats out on the sea, and a woman doing yoga on the beach. If you see my vision board below, you might have a chuckle as I did!

My vision board is being shipped over along with some other possessions at the moment. Should be here in around a month. As I looked at it a lot before we left, however, I can see it clearly in my mind and still focus on it. Plus I have the image below which I luckily photographed to post here!

I’m not sure if I’ve recommended this book before but if not, Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert is really inspiring and also light-hearted and funny. Doesn’t take itself to seriously which I think is a great strength in a personal development-style book. Apparently it’s being made into a film starring Julia Roberts at the moment. She read the book and became a big fan, I think her production company is actually making the film.

Dream on!