I'm going to run with it and take it one step higher!

You gotta write it down... Make it plain!  I was always told to dream big-make goals.  Have a vision.  Put a picture up on the refrigerator, something.  I can't stress how important it is to do this!  And I'm grateful to a daddy who taught me how to do this.  However, I wish someone had formally instructed me in how to make this happen.  I can't imagine how powerful it would be to have a journal or book with all my goals written down over the years.  Something to look back on and see how far I truly have come... but also something to inspire me to reach for the dreams of the voice of the little girl who still dreams bigger then her "current" resources support:  Goals with no limitations!

Well, in this my 35 year of life, the start of what I like to call my "second" chapter,  I've got some guidelines and I have to share them with you!  In fact, I'm going to start my son's off on this before January 2012 is over!  They too will have a vision board and a vision statement!  Here goes...

1. Pray that you open your heart up to what Yahweh wants to specifically reveal to you about your purpose and where you are in this particular season of your life.  I love to fast and pray before I start my introspective goal searching...
2. Define the 5-7 most important categories in your life.  For me (God, Family, Friends, Financial, House Hold Goals, Professional Goals (Fitness/The Arts).
3. Once they are defined put 1-7 goals under each category!  No more or it starts to become unattainable for the year!
4. Ask Yahweh to help you see what and where you need to focus your time... 
5. My favorite part.  Make a VISION BOARD of these goals/dreams/visions.  If you can truly see it you can achieve it.  Find images that represent your words.  The pictures in your mind and then it is yours!  Make it real.  I use to cut pictures out of magazine; however, I now like to make my "board" online.  There are a few websites out there but I like http://digitaldreamboard.com/  You can print it out and post it up or you can use it as a screen saver, etc.  
6. Print the documents out and put them in a binder or buy a journal specifically for this type of writing so you can go back over your "history..." Oh how I wish I had done this!  I have a few years here and there from my teens and twenties, but wow I wish I had done it consistently.  
7. Review, review, review!!!!  Daily, Weekly, Monthly if you need to!  I look at my vision board everyday... it's my wall paper on my computer and my phone.  However, I review my written document... at least 4 times a year (Beginning of Secular New Year/Winter, Beginning of Hebraic New Year/Spring, Independence Day/Summer, My birthday-end of October/Fall).  This helps me see if I'm on track or if I've gotten distracted and I can course correct!
8. Repeat one year later!  I can't wait until the year comes when I can make a weekend of defining my goals and visions all by myself and God in some location that inspires me!  Next phase of the process...

Thanks Daddy for starting your kid on this path... however, I'm going to run with it and take it one step higher!

Wanted to share my 2012 Vision Board with you!  I hope you share yours with me!...

I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and I will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what shall I answer when I am reproved. And the Lord answered me, and said, "Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry."

—Habakkuk 2:1-3, King James Bible