I'm a sucker for visualizations and vision boards. I've often chanted affirmations to psych myself up and scribbled letters ...

My Awesome Vision Board Source: Erica About a year ago I was ... A picture of this lovely letter is included in this post for your perusal. My Neighbor Note Source: Erica Every morning I would ...

A feasible workaround is using images of models, illustrations or letters ... to look at my board at least one to two times a day.” Another practical way to ensure you view your vision board ...

Sound too good to be true? Before I made a vision board, I was like you — skeptical, sad and wearing jeans that didn’t work for my body type. But, now here I am, giving advice on how to be happy!

And then I'd put that on my vision board. And it's not like I just sat on my butt and waited for my book to become a number - I - you know, I wrote the book, and they became No. 1 New York Times ...

I provided poster boards, glue sticks and a few magazines. I invited my guests to bring ... and cut out pictures, letters and words from magazines to create a vision for what they were looking ...

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