Your goal in creating this vision board is to create a visual reminder of what you are hoping to accomplish and to be able to view it regularly in order to maintain your focus and motivation. Don't hide your vision board in a back closet!  You may prefer that your vision board be a private source of inspiration, which is fine. If this is the case, don't feel as though you must hang your vision board in your living room. Similarly, if you are using an electronic vision board, you don't need to make it public. Most webpages and/or blogs can be set to private, or you can limit the people who can view your work. The point is that your vision board should be accessible to you, and shouldn't be placed where you'll fall out of the habit of looking at it. Commit to viewing—really viewing, not just glancing at—your vision board at least once a day. Commit to spending at least five minutes studying the contents and focusing on the images. Don't just read the inspirational sayings and affirmations silently to yourself: repeat them out-loud and with conviction. It's one thing to silently say to yourself “I will become a successful designer,” but it's yet another thing to hear yourself say that with confidence. If you don't believe in yourself, who will? Creating a vision board can be a good way for you to find inspiration, identify and shape your dreams, and keep you focused and motivated. If, however, you are thinking about this project because you've heard promises that making a vision board in the “right” way, and changing your thinking in the “right” way will guarantee that the universe will deliver what you want—think twice.  There's absolutely no scientific evidence that creating a vision board and visualizing your success at achieving your goals will cause the universe to deliver.  While you shouldn't give up your dreams before you start, understand that life throws roadblocks at us, and that sometimes, try as we might, we simply won't be able to achieve everything that we desire. If you go into this project thinking that you'll get results if you do it correctly, and if you then aren't able to get everything you want, you're only setting yourself up for self-blame and disappointment, which can lead to depression or lowered self-worth. Your dream board can provide you with a tangible point of focus to help you visualize your goals. However, you should know that there's debate within the scientific community as to how large of a role visualizing ought to play in our strategies towards achieving our goals. Some recent studies have suggested that people who spend more time visualizing and imagining themselves having obtained success actually under-perform once the time comes.  For example, students who were asked to spend time imagining how great it would feel to perform well on an exam did worse than those students who instead visualized their study process and those who did not visualize at all.  The lesson to be learned from this and other similar studies seems to be that, while it's good to specify your goals and spend some time envisioning what your life will be like if and when you reach them, it's both more effective and better for your mental health to focus on the specific steps you'll need to take along the way. For example, there's probably nothing wrong with day-dreaming about how awesome you'll feel once you cross the finish line of your first marathon. However, you may actually be less likely to ever actually complete the grueling run if all you ever do is visualize this moment of success. What time you do spend visualizing would be better spent focused upon your training process. Make sure that your vision board has plenty of images and inspirational sayings related to the minutia of training and not just the moment of success.  And of course, don't forget to actually strap on the running shoes and get out there!
ضع لوحة أهدافك حيث يمكن أن تراها كل يوم. شاهد لوحة أهدافك بانتظام. لا تنخدع بالوعود الكاذبة التي تتحدث عما يمكن أن تحققه لك لوحة الأهداف. استخدم لوحة أهدافك لتتخيل العملية ذاتها وليس النتائج فقط.