One thing I personally find particularly fun and exciting to visualize is a new home. If it is your goal to live in a new home, think for yourself what it will look like, how you will feel waking up in your home and where you will have your breakfast. Envision the view you will have and the fun you will have living in it.

Dorian R Toussaint shared with me how he visualized and eventually attracted his dream home, with the intention of inspiring you too:

“About 15 years ago I had this idea of my dream home, about 450 square
meters of house – 4 bedrooms, 3 full bathrooms, a study, sunken lounge,
TV room, dining room, bar, kitchen with granite tops, scullery,
workshop, double garage, under floor heating, fire place, a patio with
built in braai, a swimming pool and space, plenty of it! I wanted a
large piece of land, 1Ha (10 000 square meters of land) and… it must
have a view.

We now started working on the home, gave our architect a brief and apart
from him making the bedroom areas more practical he just about designed
the living area as I had imagined it – we didn”t have to change any of
the design, the land, the house, the view, our sanctuary. We have lived in the house just short of 5 years now”

Thank you Dorian for sharing this inspiring example with us!

Do you have an example like Dorian too of consciously visualizing something -big or small- and attracting it into your life as a consequence? Please let me know, I love to share your stories and could use some more!

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p>We are please to announce the launch of the local New Zealand Vision Board website. The website will have a local focus for the New Zealand market that combines the power of Vision Board to activities and goals that you wish to achieve. Whether it is financial freedom, health and fitness or improving your time management skills Vision Board is a great tool to help you achieve those goals.

Our aim is to partner up with New Zealand companies that our customers and visitors will be interested in. We have set up a separate affiliate system for New Zealand companies who wish to advertise, distribute and sell the Vision Board.

The new website is www.visionboard.co.nz

If you want to become a Vision Board affiliate click here

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In the visualization process, for example when creation a Vision Board, creativity is one of the key factors. Creativity in sourcing your dream images, creating powerful affirmations and selecting the most inspiring music for your visualization. Really finding those elements that makes you feel completely excited about your goals and driven to achieve them. It also makes it a lot of fun and creates real satisfaction about your end result.

So how do we increase creativity and stay away from fixed ways of thinking?

In his classic “The magic of thinking big”, David J Schwartz discusses how to think and dream creatively. “Personal enemy number one”, he says, “for the person who is interested in a creative personal success program, is Traditional Thinking. It freezes your mind and blocks your progress”. He describes an interesting way to create more creative power, which I thought would be valuable for you to try. It is:

Be an experimental person

He suggests: “Break up fixed routines. Expose yourself to new restaurants, new books, new theaters, new friends; take a different route to work some day, take a different vacation this year, do something new and different this weekend”

I love this idea, as I think it can be quite easy to slip into a set way of thinking about things and to follow certain routines day in day out without consciously thinking about them. This really shuts down your creativity and minimizes the possibility of improvement. So I think this is a great practice, as it forces you to think outside the square. This will keep you open and inspired for ideas, people and ways of thinking that might be completely different from yours.

So start a totally different hobby, do something new with your family, take a different route driving home from the office or just try something different for lunch. You might just like the change !

Have a powerful week!

Linda Boertjens

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The positive voice is the one that creates the positive feelings and therefore will help you to attract the dreams and goals you have set for yourself by virtue of the Law of Attraction. It will help you to get ahead in life. The negative one creates negative feelings of jealousy, fear or frustration and will therefore sabotage your efforts to try and create the life of your dreams. It will only create more negativity in your life.

Key is: give more attention to the positive voice than to the negative one. In fact, try to give as little acknowledgment as possible to the negative voice. I suggest having a bit of fun with this. In your mind, create a mental image of your positive voice and your negative voice. Your positive voice could be represented by a fun little cheerleader, jumping around all happy and excited on your left shoulder. The negative voice could be a grumpy little old man, sitting cross armed on your shoulder with an angry little face. Now every time you hear yourself saying something negative to yourself or others, notice the little old grumpy dumpy sitting on your shoulder… That was him talking. On the other side is the fun cheerleader: what would she say? Would that be more constructive to say in this situation?

Just give it a try… by being and talking more positive to yourself and others, you will be able to apply the teachings of the Law of Attractions a lot more effective. Talking and speaking positive will attract more positive empowering things to you! If you are serious about attracting your dreams and goals in life, listen to your cheerleader and let the grumpy one crumble away…!

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After the interview, we received numerous request of members who couldn’t make it to the call, but who would love to listen to the interview. Well, fabulous news! We have now uploaded this interview to the VisionLounge Resource, section “Music and Audio”, for everyone to benefit from.

Make sure to go to the Resource section now and listen to this valuable information! In the interview, we discussed Eva and Jeanna’s new book, which is an amazing book that gives the real “how-to” of the Law of Attraction. It’s called Life Lessons in Mastering the Law of Attraction — 7 Essential Ingredients for Living the Prosperous Life and it’s written by Jeanna and Eva in collaboration with Jack Canfield, founder of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.

In this new book, which was just released this May, Jeanna and Eva share real life stories from over 35 different people who used the Law of Attraction to overcome obstacles and seemingly impossible odds in order to create the life of their dreams. But that’s not all. Jeanna and Eva distill these stories into specific “life lessons” we can apply to our own lives, showing us how we, too, can use the Law of Attraction to move past our own circumstances and create a by-design, no-limits life!

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I wanted to share with you a way to apply these principles in an extremely powerful way: by visualizing your dream life like being in a movie. A best seller hit movie called “My dream life”! Close your eyes, and start “acting” as the star in your own future! The time frame of your movie could be 5 years from now…

So image your life, 5 years from now. You have achieved the goals and dreams you had set for yourself and you are truly living the life you wish to manifest.

Describe as detailed as you can:

* Where do you live; at the beach, in the mountains?
* What does your house look like?
* What will you look like; healthier, fitter, and younger?
* Who will you be spending time with, how much time will you be able to dedicate to this person or these persons and what will you be doing?
* To whom or what will you be able to contribute today, how does that make you feel?
* What is your level of happiness, and your level of gratitude and excitement?

Really get into this. Give yourself permission to dream BIG! See yourself living a wonderful life of balance in health, wealth, spirituality and social activities. Really FEEL like you are living this amazing life and know you deserve it. My recommendation is to do this every night. Why not spend the last 5 minutes of your day in your future dream life…. If you do this every night, with power and belief, and you take the necessary actions: one day you will find yourself living this dream life for real!

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To offer our members even more benefits, we have invited a number of carefully selected experts who have a lot of knowledge relevant to our community, to become a VIP member. They can be found on VisionLounge via “VIP Members” in the “Members” section.

Meet our fantastic VIP members so far:

* Vic Johnson – host of TSTN’s Goals 2 Go and founder of www.Goals-2-Go.com
* Eva Gregory – CPCC, Master Coach, Speaker and Author
* Ruben Gonzalez – 3-time Olympian, Award Winning Speaker, Best Selling Author
* Daniel Gutierrez – International Business Consultant, Author and Speaker
* Kathryn Cassidy – Vision Coach and professional astrologer
* Melissa Bult – Spiritual teacher and Angel Coach
* Laura Donker – Life Coach with a special interest in LOA and Weight Management

These VIP members will share value resources with our members such as inspiring articles, empowering video’s and other educational resources meant to assist them on their journey. Ans many more will be joining soon, like Lee Brower and Greg Reid. Check out the Resource Section on VisionLounge now!

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I came across the following meditation from Louise Hay in her book “Mediations to heal your life” that I thought was really profound, so I wanted to share it with you. To me, it reflects the idea that all things happen for a reason and that we are all on our own unique journey towards our prosperity and happiness.

I especially resonated with the sentence “I can open myself to this divine power and receive what I need, whenever I choose”. It reconfirms that it is important to choose and then let the Universe know our choices by “sending them out”, something our Vision Board software helps you to do on a daily basis!

Here is the meditation:

Divine Guidance

“I really know that there is a power far greater than myself that flows through me every moment of every day, and I can open myself to this power and receive what I need, whenever I choose. This is true of everyone. We all are learning that it is safe to look within. It is safe to enlarge our viewpoint of life. If things aren’t going the way we expected in some area, it doesn’t mean we are bad or wrong. It is a signal that we are being redirected by Divine Guidance. When this happens, find a quiet place where you can relax and connect with the intelligence within you. Affirm that the supply of wisdom is inexhaustible and available to you, and that whatever you need to know is revealed to you in the perfect time/space sequence.”

Have a powerful week!

Linda Boertjens

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The first recommended technique is to really see yourself as a millionaire and feel yourself already being a millionaire. Focus on wearing clothes that make you feel prosperous and doing the things a millionaire does, such as looking at amazing houses and going out for lunch. Really focus on wealth and abundance instead of on lack or limitations, not having enough etc as that is what you will keep getting otherwise. If you think you “need” money, that is exactly what you will be attracting to your life: more “needing”! If you feel broke, guess what… you will attract more “brokeness” to your reality.

On the other hand, if you focus on an abundance of money flowing into your life and you really feel this abundance in every fiber of your body, you will create “money attracting vibes”! The interesting thing is, that the more you focus on abundance in your life, the more the “standard” in your mind shifts towards having money. Combined with the right action you will eventually attract that wealth into your reality. Your ideas and feelings shift from “I don’t have money” to “I am receiving more and more money” to eventually actually having it.

Another technique is to visualize your actual fortune. If your goal is to become a millionaire, then write out a a check made out to you for 1 million dollars and hang it somewhere in your house where you will see it often. Better still, make copies and hang them all around your house! Visualize a stream of money flowing into your life, like a river. Or visualize your bank account with a million dollars in it. You could even print out a bank statement, white out the amount and replace it with a huge number. See yourself with a full wallet, happily paying diner for a group of friends. Or anything else that you wish you could do if you had the money. Becoming a millionaire is great, but I assume you have this goal because you have some ideas as to how to spend it once earned. So really see yourself already wealthy! What you see in your imagination, is what you will eventually see for real with your eyes! This method is called “vivid visualization” and is extremely powerful. By practicing it, you will find that your self-image begins to conform to these new images in your mind. You are literally growing into the new successful person you intent to become.

A key factor here is to stop worrying about HOW it will come to you. The universe will take care of that, you just need to believe and focus on positive feelings and vibrations. This will attract the events, circumstances and people into your life to make your goal a reality. Look at your million dollar check and feel the feelings of having that money right now. How would you spend it? How would it feel to spend that kind of money?

A final important point to know, is that if you don’t have enough money right now, it means you are blocking the flow of money into your life, with your thoughts. Your wallet speaks very clearly about the vibrations you are sending out into the universe about money at this present moment. So have a really good look at your own beliefs about money. If your beliefs are limiting and scarce, you will need to address this before you can attract your true fortune. You can work on a more positive and abundant belief system by using affirmations. Use affirmations like “I am so happy and excited that I am now attracting a flow of money into my life” or “I easily attract money like a magnet”.

Combine the vivid visualization technique with empowering affirmations and the action steps you need to further your goals. This creates a powerful process, and gets you on your way to becoming a millionaire!

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Since the start, OrangePeel has been dedicated to empowering people on their journey towards their goals and dreams. Our first project was the creation of a computer application that enables the user to create a dynamic Vision Board on their computer screen called “Vision Board”. The process of creating and perfecting this tool has been extra ordinary, and we have received a lot of positive feedback of users about the positive effects this tool has had on their lives.

What we learned along the way is that there are a few things that could be very valuable to offer in addition to our Vision Board product: the ability to easily and freely share your Vision Board online and to connect with like minded people and grow even more than you can on an individual basis. We also also recognized a need for additional support resources and communication to learn more about all aspects of visualization, Vision Boards, Goal Setting etc.

VisionLounge is set up to be an empowering free online community for people with a common aspiration to achieve their Goals and Dreams, to connect and grow with like minded people. Please see www.visionlounge.com for more info!

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