I am soooooo excited!!! I’ve been this way for months and it’s finally here, I can hardly contain myself… one of my dreams is coming true! I am going to the City of Lights for adventure, discovery and romance and will be able to live my dream of living and speaking as the French do! Since I was a teenager, I’ve wanted to visit Paris. I love everything French.
I enjoyed listening to my father speak his native tongue to his aunts on the phone (Alberta francophone slang which unfortunately did not transfer well to the French I was learning in school) . I enjoy the beautiful, flowing language and find that I am good at it. Yet I have not become fluent because I haven’t had the opportunity to speak it for any length of time.
One of my dreams has always been to immerse myself in the language by living in Quebec or France for a period of time. As a teenager I applied for an exchange program but did not secure one of the few available spots. I had plans to travel there with a friend after highschool but she backed out and I never went. As a flight attendant, I flew everywhere around it but never to France. Then life happened and it did not materialize.
A couple years ago I learned about creating a Vision Board. The information has been around for a long time but I first learned of it through the film The Secret. In one of my favourite books Simple Abundance, Sarah Ban Breathnach suggests creating an Illustrated Discovery Journal. Abraham-Hicks suggests a Creation Box. Last year I purchased a beautiful fabric-covered box that says Paris all over it. Inside I drop papers or objects that represent things I wish to accomplish. Last November I was in Vegas and asked a friend to take a photo of me with the “fake” Eiffel Tower behind me so that I could put it in my Vision Book (yes, I have a Vision Scrapbook… that should be no surprise)! Another friend created this collage of me that I could view on my computer.
Just 6 weeks after my return from Las Vegas, Mark and I were having dinner with friends who announced they were going to Paris and asked if we would like to come. My husband, without even looking at me said, “that sounds like fun.” I did a double take! Okay, you’re saying, that’s not a big manifestation. Well, yes, it is!! First, I’ve had many opportunities to travel in my life and the circumstances to go to France didn’t seem to line up. Second, my husband has never been to Europe. It’s not that he was opposed to going but it was never first on his priority list and I was beginning to think it would be in our retirement that we would finally get there. Vacations are usually south or centered around golf (I am an active participant so I’m not complaining, just stating a fact).
Which brings me to my most important point… Mark plays around 170 rounds a year. So to get him doing anything BUT golf in the middle of Spring is highly unusual. I’ve suggested other activities and usually he says, “in the winter, when it’s not golf season.”
Dreams do come true if you dream it and believe it will come. Do not place your attention on the not having of it. Twenty-some years later I am getting to Paris in the Springtime… thanks to The Universe who kindly lined up everything to make it the right time to go. Because if it wasn’t his golf buddy who invited us, I’m not sure that I could have gotten Mark there on my own in the middle of June. AND, we’re not bringing the golf clubs. For all of this, I am grateful.
Voilà la vérité (that’s the truth of it).
QUOTE FOR YOUR SCRAPBOOK: “Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” Henry David Thoreau
CHALLENGE TO YOU: Have some fun in your scrapbook and create a page of your goals and dreams for your future. The real fun begins when you have the opportunity to look back on this page and recognize all that has happened. My example above is only one of many that have come true for me.
Scrapbooks for the Soul
Thanks for your post, I enjoyed reading it . That is sooo cool.
I have been to a few magazine parties myself to make my own vision board, but more recently I use the Bob Proctor lifesuccess vision board, have you seen it?
I simple love it – easy to use and they have lots of resources. Well worth looking at.
Also I am now member of vision lounge. There are many like minded people on visionlounge.com that come there on a regular basis to read and write blogs and participate in the groups there, maybe it is something you may be interested in.