E-Book Review: The Complete Guide To Vision Boards

Following on from my recent posts on vision boards (1 and 2), here are my 5 favourite things about Christine Kane’s free e-book The Complete Guide to Vision Boards: How To Create and Attract the Life You’ve Always Wanted, which you can download from her blog.

1. Christine’s style of writing: You know how some people can write in such a way that, as you read, you begin to feel as though the pair of you are sat on the sofa together, sharing a big pot of tea while enjoying a really good blether?  Well that’s how Christine writes.  It’s easy to relate to what she says because it is delivered with such warmth and openness.
2. My love for magazine has been renewed: I used to love magazines and regularly bought a ridiculous amount of them.  Over the last couple of years, however, I’ve grown steadily disenchanted by them; they just repeat the same stories over and over, they focus on materialist consumerism, and I feel they’re invested in endorsing cultural stereotypes.  Christine has given me a new purpose for my magazine collection – tearing them up in the search for inspirational images for my vision boards.  Fabulous – creative consumption wins out over mindless consumption!
3. Christine takes on the skeptics:  She call them out; she encourages them to give it a go.  As she says, if her experiments with spiritual and success principles ‘didn’t work, the worst thing that could happen would be me feeling stupid. So be it.  But if they did work, the best thing that could happen is me feeling happier.  It felt like a pretty good risk to take’.  This is something that I experience a lot!  Some people probably think I’m a bit (or even very!) gullible when it comes to things like this, but I’m willing to give it a go, because the worst that can happen is that I come out of it looking stupid.  Believe me, there are a lot worse things in life than that!
4. Alternatives offered: I really like that Christine offers alternatives to the vision board by detailing options such as a vision journal, written vision board, vision index cards and digital vision boards.  I like the flexibility that this affords, but most of all, I love that it has sparked my creativity.  I can’t wait to get started on some more vision board projects now!
5. You need to act!: It’s not just enough to create the vision board; as Christine points out, you have to be willing to act.  She clarifies, ‘Taking action means being open.  It means listening to your guidance.  it means keeping a keen eye out for opportunities and moving towards them.  It means, above all else, showing up‘.

Well those are my top 5 reasons for loving this e-book – what are yours?  Do you have another inspirational resource you would like to share?  Have you made your vision board yet?