What is a Vision Board and do you have one!!!?

I'm a goal setter, and I have always liked to journal my progress!! It seems like everytime I take a break from writing things down for me to see, is when I fall of the wagon and forget where I'm wanting to be! Just recently going through boxes I came across journals from as far back as 1998!! YIKES!!! It's so interesting to see how your thoughts change over the years, and how what I ate changed with the fads....low carb, low cal, a few meals a day, many meals a day...One thing that has never changed is that I have ALWAYS been focused on diet and exercise...and to a fault in my highschool years...maybe I'll tell you more about that one day ;)

ANYWAY, most of my journals have little clippings glued in of recipes and models that I aspire to work toward, diet and exercise advice from magazines etc. About a year and a half ago, I decided to take some of those clippings as well as cutting out more and make myself a vision board!! I wanted my aspirations to be up front and centre so I could see them on a daily basis and keep my motivation going strong!!!

HOW DO YOU MAKE ONE?-Get some poster board, and magazine clippings to motivate you and paste away!!! Put it up somewhere you will see it everyday!

I'm thinking of revamping my vision board and starting over for the new year...to document #myjourney!! This is the new focus of the #mompowerteam in January!

My last vision board has a lot of babies on it (we were wanting to have a baby pretty badly at the time without quick success so if was first and foremost on my mind ) We focused on it, took the steps we needed to to make it happen, and now we have our beautiful daughter!! :)

I also hved pictures of holidays on it, which we took (luckily we were able to combine my working trips with some great trips to Mexico so it didn't cost an arm and a leg!)

My dream car is there (a Toyota Tacoma...I know, not much of a DREAM car, but I've always wanted one) Over the time I've had the vision board, I've saved enough to afford one, but with the baby here, my priorities with money have changed. I need to stockpile a little more before I'll take that jump....expecially with gas prices now adays!!

My vision board also has a picture of Alicia Marie (a fitness model) that I've been saving for YEARS!!! I've never really applied myself as much as needed to even make it close to getting on stage, so this is going to be my FOCUS this year! Along with quality time with my family, and a couple of trips. The first one is to Palm Springs this month....and then maybe the WBFF in Vegas in August??? (Just to watch ;) I'm also going to focus on promoting my social media pages, ie(facebook, my blog, and try to figure out the rest, HAHA) Maybe even start a youtube channel to document my journey to the stage???? (help deal with my fear of being centre of attention LOL ) Maybe that would help others who are trying to train on their own :)

TWITTER-@competitionlean
Pinterest-smackid
Instagram-smackid
Facebook-www.facebook.com/OperationCompetitionLean

ANYWAY!! That's enough babble, my point is, having your goals up front and centre and seeing them everyday makes you more likely to achieve them!!! With the power of positive thinking, and the constant reminder of what you want, NOTHING can stop you!!! Want to join me in planning your own journey for 2013 by making a vision board??!!

Let's Talk About Goal Setting!!!!

GOAL SETTING

 

 

by Road to Eating Clean and Living Lean on Friday, November 23, 2012 at 9:25pm ·

I wanted to talk a little bit about goal setting...I used to work at Lululemon and they were HUGE advocators of goal setting. We chose BHAD goals (big, hairy, audatious, goals, lol) and set out ways to make it there. We chose five year goals first, then worked backwards and set three year goals and one yr goals to make it to that end picture. I found it really hard to pinpoint where I wanted to be in fives years, but I'm definitly using it for my current goals!!
My BHAD goal at this point is stepping on stage in MAY....but in order to make it there I have lots of little short term goals within that big goal, and I try to stick to them as close as possible!!! Planning, and sticking to that plan is KEY!!

My Monthly Goals are:
1. Research all the things I will need to get prepared for within the next 5-6 months...Posing, walking in heels, tan, suit selection, makeup, hair, cutting weight those final weeks, carb cycling, etc. And start rotating the practicing of all these things into my weekly and daily goals as time goes on and I know what need more or less work!
2. Go through all my journaling, and decide what's working, what's not, and decide how I need to change my plan to keep seeing progress.
3. Buying something I'll need or paying registration fees one month at a time, so it's not overwhelming in those last couple of months. I've already purchased shoes, and bikini bite. This month, I'm going to pay for the membership fee and entrance fee for the first competition in May...In december, I'm going to start looking into a suit selection...etc

My weekly goals are:
1. to make a plan for diet (making a couple daily meal plans that fit into my predetermined macronutrient breakdown i.e. Pro/Carb/Fat) I record my meals BEFORE I actually have them and only eat what I have planned...rather than recording what I eat. This keeps me from taking extra snacks here and there.
Those extra calories add up!!
2. Cook meals in advance every three days. (It gives me food on hand so I'm not reaching for junk, but it's not sitting in the fridge too long, and tasting stale) Eating before I go to get togethers so I don't fall off my diet because I'm famished.
3. Plan my workouts ahead of time, and check them off while I go! Recording all sets and weights so I can see improvment or lack thereof!!!
4. Take Pictures every Monday to judge how my progress is going. (recording what happened in my diet and workouts that week so I can see how that affects the way I look with the pictures. :)

My daily goals are:
 1. to eat every two to three hours
2. drink a gallon of water a day
3. Make every rep count in the gym
4. Get as much sleep as I can
I'm sure I'm missing a lot of stuff in these lists, but at least you get the gist of what I'm doing!!!

REMEMBER!!! - Make sure your goals are SMART goals

Specific ,Measureable, Attainable,Realistic,Timely I hear a lot of people saying they don't have a SPECIFIC goal, they just want to be healthier...if that's working for them, that's great! I know from my own experience though, until I made this VERY specific goal, I was just coasting along, being somewhat healthy, but never feeling like I was REALLY making any progress. I never REALLY set my mind to it because I wasn't keeping myself accountable in any way and wasn't working toward anything SPECIFIC! TIMELY is one of the aspects that I find is the most important...If I don't give myself a timeline for my goals, I don't take myself seriously.
So there you have it! Make a big goal, it can be anything....
Run/walk a 10K, Enter a triathalon, Doing unassisted chinups, Compete in a mud run, learn an extreme sport, start your own business, buy your dream house or car, earn a degree, take a dream vacation......whatever you put your mind to, and plan for it!! Decide what you need to do to achieve that goal. Break it down into "baby step" goals to get you there! Trust me, it works!!!!! :)
PS, Last but not least, tell people about your goals....having people know what you are planning to do, makes you more likely to follow through!