Law of Attraction Activate!

Hopefully you read the title of this post in your best Super Friends or Wonder Twins voice. If not, go back and read it aloud: law of attraction activate! Isn't that what ultimately happens in the law of attraction, when desires become a habit that we physically seek and verbally speak into existence, powers within our universal world are activated? The law of attraction states that we attract into our lives anything that we give attention to, regardless whether it be positive or negative.

Therefore, a vision board is simply a visual representation or collage of the things that we want to have, be, or do in life. It is usually a poster or foam board with cut-out pictures, drawings and/or writing on it of the things that we want to become. The purpose of a vision board is to activate the law of attraction to begin to pull things from our external environment (universe) that will enable us to realize and actualize our dream.

I, along with my family, set out to do this on the final days of December 2011. As a former teacher whom I will make reference to from time to time, I charged each of my three children and my husband to have a completed vision board for themselves, as well as we all had to work on our family vision board, by December 31st. My vision board for 2012:

If only you could get a closer glimpse at some of the things I had unconsciously been saving in my keepsakes, that ended up being carefully added to my board. Since completing this project, my life has been literally emoting passion for many of those things slowing-but-surely manifesting in my life. My vision board is tacked facing north on my bedroom wall just above the television. I look at it several times a day, sometimes sitting and staring at it until I'm overrun with emotion. Being severely stricken with Type A personality, my vision board was well-designed with general elements being grouped together in order to focus my mind and energy to help fuel my passion and make me happy to take strides to achieve every time I look at it.

Here it is three months into the Year 2012 and I'm activating some of the things I've visualized. "ProacTiff powers activate!"

Soul Sojourn

For some people it’s a second career, an impasse, or a dream–how reinvention occurs. For some people, it’s ‘What can I do to make the world a better place?’ This statement hits close to home having come out of the field of education as a public school teacher (and married to a man who knew his calling was in education at the tender age of sixteen). For me, it’s ‘What can I do to express my creativity?’ I don’t need to climb the ladder of success (my husband has consistently done this for our family quite well). My goal is not paycheck-related (I gave those up years ago when we decided I would stay home to raise our children) nor is it status-related. My goal is purely satisfaction-related and contentment-related and about finding fulfillment. I’d rather regret what I didn’t do than regret what I won’t do.

In my quest to quench my thirst for knowledge I have decided to take my amateur abilities into the classroom. I have decided to go to a beauty academy, also known as trade school, to earn my nail technician license.

[Hold applause]

I prefer that you celebrate with me on my journey as I attempt to document another of my renaissance soul sojourns. Welcome to my somewhat neurotic world.

Blueprint of a Reinventionist

My attempt to blog about the unique trials and tribulations of getting Nail Technitian/Manicurist/Nails Specialty licensed, including passing state board exams, building a professional portfolio from nothing, and developing skills for a service-oriented people-skills-driven profession.

Also, my repeated attempt at condemning the long-suffering, paralyzingly self-fulfilling prophet known as the almighty Procrastination! Henriette Klauser, said it best,"Procrastination is an ugly, pejorative word." Procrastination has been my form of resistance. Resistance happens when (we) do do not feel safe (more Henriette). Wanting, desiring, continuing, pressing on to blog will hopefully help me find out what is causing me to feel unsafe. And trust, when I do, I'm going to beat it with a baseball bat and kick it when it's down.

Moral judgment be damned!