Vision boards - The ultimate tool of making the personal exceptional

[Ted Hoppe]

In 2011 I posted here on the forum.

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I know there are many doubters here about such things. I had much success with my 2010 & 2011 board with a 90 percent achievement. Here is mine for 2012. I challenge you to make one too and post.

More recently - October 2021

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New Years Eve 2021

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Today - Subject to change.

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[Paul Pless]

ways to become physically fit after fifty

can i borrow your 2021 vision board?

[Ted Hoppe]

can i borrow your 2021 vision board?

it is a starter. take what you want.

2022 will continue to be most excellent!

[Ted Hoppe]

I started a sample for you Paul.

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[Joe (SoCal)]

[Ted Hoppe]

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Huh. i need to update this as I hit nearly all of it and it is still September.

[Ted Hoppe]

Time to consider the 2023 vision board. First draft

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[Joe (SoCal)]

I have glasses and intuition as my vision

[Breakaway]

This is pretty cool, Ted.

In fact, I am going to borrow the idea and ask my teen daughters to, along with me, make vision boards for the new year. We will make an evening of it.

Kevin


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[Paul Pless]

ted's looks pretty cool
maybe he could make one for me

[George Jung]

Yup. I could use one, too, Ted!

Pace yerself.

[Ted Hoppe]

If you are stuck- just collecting images helps. I swear by this. It really does make your life richer and opens a world which you can reach on an emotional level, something you can experience directly.

[Ted Hoppe]

As of today I can do to 3 pull ups as well as can do 3 - 2 minute full body bar hangs and starting burpees. Curling 30 lbs of 3 set of 10. On my 3rd day of yoga. Running a mile in 12 minutes. Lost 3 pounds since New Years. Back and shoulders are feeling great.

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I am working on my fitness to perform higher functions, focusing on remaining sustainably injury-free with core strength, great flexibility & mobility in an effort to tick the necessary boxes of being a strong, agile and balanced man. Changes in my mental state are actually improving - a forgotten but essential part of overall health.

[Ted Hoppe]

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Vision board updated. Have already hit some of my goals and preparing for others. The ability to facilitate change is almost as important.

[rbgarr]

In 1980 at age thirty (when I was in business school) a class assignment was to create a vision board of what I wanted for my life . I made a drawing of a house by the water with a wing for children, a wing for myself and my wife, moorings for a sailboat and motorboat and a boatshop. We have achieved all that now and will be putting in a private dock starting next month. We've been remarkably fortunate.

[Ted Hoppe]

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Changing and expanding on a Spring and Summer board.

[amish rob]

What app are you using to make the images? Some of them look really awesome.

[Ted Hoppe]

Thanks!

I use Adobe Photoshop, illustrator, Fresco and After effects on the iPad. I will apply several different layers to them. It is fun while i waste my life waiting and living with fighting clients.

[TomF]

A former Deputy Minister of mine booked 2 days alone in a hotel every January, to do his own "strategic planning" for the coming year - both professional and private life. He felt that anything which was so useful (when done well and then actually implemented) for a high performing organization was something he needed in his own life.

Every year was an opportunity to re-examine and re-confirm commitment to the values he wanted to direct his goal setting, how he ranked priorities, and the ways he tracked progress. The values were more important than any of the activities, because an activity might drop off the agenda if something unexpected happened over the year - an illness, economic changes, etc. Something could be expected to happen every year - an 80% year was pretty standard.

The strengthened values, though, would help him swiftly reassess and move forward, to get that 80%. And still wanting to do 80% of what you'd priorized showed that you'd been clear sighted about your values.

[amish rob]

Thanks!

I use Adobe Photoshop, illustrator, Fresco and After effects on the iPad. I will apply several different layers to them. It is fun while i waste my life waiting and living with fighting clients.

Hahaha. You don’t even KNOW how to waste time. Amateur.

You're getting quite good with the images, Yo. I can envision some of these effects in the bike video…

[Ted Hoppe]

A former Deputy Minister of mine booked 2 days alone in a hotel every January, to do his own "strategic planning" for the coming year - both professional and private life. He felt that anything which was so useful (when done well and then actually implemented) for a high performing organization was something he needed in his own life.

Every year was an opportunity to re-examine and re-confirm commitment to the values he wanted to direct his goal setting, how he ranked priorities, and the ways he tracked progress. The values were more important than any of the activities, because an activity might drop off the agenda if something unexpected happened over the year - an illness, economic changes, etc. Something could be expected to happen every year - an 80% year was pretty standard.

The strengthened values, though, would help him swiftly reassess and move forward, to get that 80%. And still wanting to do 80% of what you'd priorized showed that you'd been clear sighted about your values.

Being able to see the big picture and putting oneself in perspective is really important. I do really believe we manifest what we focus on. This deputy of yours knows what he needs to do and that it is not a one weekend a year kind of thing.

Earlier this week I was stressed out due to work because those clients around me were elevated emotionally and subjected me to their worry as we all mioxed for the long hours; in due part I lost some important objectives that made me look not in the best light which made me lose my usual high confidence. I really did lost focus on what was good for me and where I wanted to be. I was unable to get proper exercise and although it was under my control I let others decide what my time and life commitment would be. In other words, i gave up my own power. These vision boards along with the (stress soundtrack thread I posted. http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthre...burnout-thread) helped me regain my perspective and add to my own self worth as visualized and represented in this artish presentation.

I am glad to share this with you all even if you are just mildly entertained by my weirdness.

[Andrew2]

A former Deputy Minister of mine booked 2 days alone in a hotel every January, to do his own "strategic planning" for the coming year - both professional and private life. He felt that anything which was so useful (when done well and then actually implemented) for a high performing organization was something he needed in his own life.

Every year was an opportunity to re-examine and re-confirm commitment to the values he wanted to direct his goal setting, how he ranked priorities, and the ways he tracked progress. The values were more important than any of the activities, because an activity might drop off the agenda if something unexpected happened over the year - an illness, economic changes, etc. Something could be expected to happen every year - an 80% year was pretty standard.

The strengthened values, though, would help him swiftly reassess and move forward, to get that 80%. And still wanting to do 80% of what you'd priorized showed that you'd been clear sighted about your values.

The Lockheed 'Stealth' mob, reckoned that when working on the SR71 and others, that 80% was enough, as getting the extra 20% was not worth the effort, or the result.
So, good company..

[John B]

A different kind of vision board , people used to buy something that represented their aspirations or dreams.
In this case my GGG Grandfather evidently wanted a boat beside a cottage by the water and a volcanic cone, with forest and birds. So he bought a clock from the Ansonia company of NY circa 1870. Pretty much describes where we live now 150 years later, not sure if he did, thats lost to time.
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[TomF]

Ted,

Sometimes an event like that is exactly what it takes to make one recommit to one's values. We're apt to notice a sharp jolt, which serves as a prompt to adjust. It's when there's no jolt, no attention-grabbing event, that I think we're actually at the greatest risk of sliding away from ourselves. Exactly because it happens while we're unaware.

Without exception, the things which came to be the greatest blessings in my life were wrapped in very convincing disguises at the time.