Sunday, 1 December 2013

Step 3: Focus Areas

 Vision Card for "Travel" Focus Area

What is a focus area?  

Each Vision Card represents a different focus area in your life. These are fairly broad strokes, things like relationships, home, self-care, money, creativity. A Vision Card may also be made for a particularly large and important project, something with a lot of steps like, "becoming a yoga instructor" or "starting my creative business". What you want to avoid though is focusing on anything too small, anything that is more of a 'to do' (e.g. buy a new coat, get my haircut)  Vision Cards thrive with a clear focus on a big theme.  

Discovering your focus areas...

As you pay attention over time, you'll notice that though some priorities shift and change, there are over-arching themes that tend to remain consistent in your life, themes that become recognizably yours. These are focus areas you can work with again and again, creating new Vision Cards yearly or seasonally. My constant focus areas are: home, work, creativity, relationships, self and spirit. For me, additional topics have included travel, romance, wealth and well-being.

Today, you are going to choose three focus areas that you will use to create your Vision Cards. Through the visualization you may already be clear on what those are. If you have a general idea but are looking for the right language or if you're just not a visualization type of person, I've created a list of some popular themes for you to consider below. I highly encourage you to let your heart  decide on your three areas. It's one of the reasons I created the visualization for you, so you could bypass the "shoulds" and get to what is inside your heart. Choose three theme areas that truly mean something to you, three areas that if infused with some magic would really make a difference in your life.

Potential focus areas...

Home. Creativity. Self. Wellness. Money. Spirit. Business. Play. Romance. Family. Self-Care. Travel. Self-Expression. Community. Learning. Art. Connecting. Work. Fitness. Nesting. Independence. Pleasure. Wealth. Writing. Nourishment. Magic. Beauty. Safety. Adventure. Success. Education. Joy. Parenting. Love.

Name your focus areas...  

Now is the time to name the focus areas for each of your three Vision Cards. On the back of each of your cards write your focus. (You may want to write it at the top or bottom because we'll be doing more writing here later.) Be clear and specific as you set your intention for each Vision Card.  

Claim your focus areas...  

Be sure you choose three focus areas before moving onto the next lesson. You can always make more Vision Cards, but for here and now be clear and choose. In fact, take a moment and say aloud (even if it's only quietly)...

Today, I choose to focus my attention and energy on.... (name your focus areas). 

You can also take a moment and write this in your journal. There is power in making a decision and magic in declaring your choice. Once you've named and claimed your three focus areas, you can move on to the next lesson.

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