Here is another way to manifest your career dreams: Put a “career vision board” somewhere in your home or work place where you can see it every day. A vision board is a collage and consists of images you want to “materialize” in your life. Whether they are symbolic images , such as “independence” or “creativity,” or concrete –such as your perfect office or a picture of others doing what you want to do; in looking at the images every day, consciously or consciously, you implant them within your brain. And you begin to create them within your life, without even necessarily being aware of it.

You can create a vision board with the elements you know you want in your career, even if you don’t yet know what that career is. Or perhaps you do know what you want to do. Paste pictures and images that reflect that career, or elements of it. If you did the last exercise, visualizing your perfect job, then you have connected with at least some of the elements that are important to you in a career. You can paste images of those elements onto your vision board. One way to do this is to buy a large piece of poster board, and cut and paste images and glue them to it. Or you can use a cork board and pin them up. Or perhaps you prefer a circular image? Or maybe you want to make a hanging "mobile"? As time goes by, when you find your images in magazines, on the internet, from books or other media, cut them out and paste them on your board. You may also paste phrases or sentences you like. You can paint or draw yourself if you prefer. This is YOURS and you can do it anyway you like! These images may change, and that’s fine too. Our lives, objectives and desires are dynamic. Many coaches suggest putting a photo of youself in the middle of the board, smiling, satisfied, and feeling complete and happy. Find a picture of yourself at a happy time, and add it if you choose to!

One other thing: as you look for pictures photos and images that are meaningful to you, pay attention to what catches your attention. The ones that affect you deeply say something VERY important about you, and what is important to you! Likewise, pay attention to the ones that have the opposite effect.

You can even make an electronic vision board! (What will they think of next?!). For example, what about using a vision board as your screensaver? There are several online links to companies that help do this, as an example see: http://www.squidoo.com/what-is-a-vision-board

I did my first vision board over 15 years ago, when I still lived in California. On my board were pictures representing freedom, travel, and images that symbolized meaningful and adventurous international work, in addition to some of my personal spiritual objectives. I had it in my home office propped on a bookcase. Somehow one day it fell behind the case, and I didn’t notice. I was very busy, and took a business trip or two. Months went by, and eventually I had the wonderful opportunity to do a work-project in Europe, helping build an office in Amsterdam for a large American telecommunications company. I was very excited! Before my trip I began cleaning out my house, and discovered that vision board behind the bookcase. Nearly everything I had put on the board (everything I had wanted in my life at that time) had materialized! I was amazed. (I eventually worked in nearly every European country and Asia for this company, and moved to Portugal where I still live.) After that experience I always kept a vision board, because it taught me that even when I wasn’t regularly looking at it –it worked! This is powerful stuff!

In workshops of various kinds I often asked participants to bring pictures and create a vision board. I usually do this as the last exercise, once all participants know each other well. Once they had done that, I have asked each of them to explain their board to the group. The participants have enjoyed doing that so much; it made me realize an important element which is not often discussed: SHARE IT WITH SOMEONE ELSE. Someone you trust. Explain your choices, and describe what each image means to you. There is enormous power in STATING what we want, and with the enthusiasm that comes from showing someone else something we ourselves have created, and which is a unique reflection of who we are.

In fact, if you have another friend, or group of friends, who want to do the project together –get together, have coffee and cookies, or wine and cheese, and create your image boards together! Sit together at a table or on the floor and cut and paste. Then ask each person to explain to everyone else the significance of each item on his/her board.

Have fun with this!If you have an interesting vision board story you would like to share, please send it to me!

With warm regards, Jill

*The vision board above was taken from Google images and the following website:http://judithmorgan.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/vision_board_1.jpg (vision board)

MAGIC...USING YOUR IMAGINATION TO CREATE A CAREER

CLOSE YOUR EYES, PUT YOURSELF IN A PLACE OF STILL AND QUIET*Use your imagination, imagine yourself working at something, or a variety of things, you greatly enjoy. You feel alive. You feel you are using your talents: this “work” comes easily to you, and yet you are called upon to stretch and grow. You look forward to getting up in the morning (or afternoon, or evening!) and doing this work, or traveling to another location. Time passes without you noticing it because you are so engrossed and interested. You think: "I am having so much fun I would pay THEM for this job!" Now stop for a moment and FEEL how good you feel! Hold that feeling as long as you can. Don’t censor what comes into your mind. You can use this as a guide if it is helpful:

STRUCTURE

+What is the “structure” or non-structure of this work? Is it fulltime? Part time? Do you work mostly during the day? Or night? Do you travel to your work, walk or cycle to it, live “within” it, or is it in a room in your home? Is your workday free-flowing? Or do you have many appointments? Is it work + travel? +How are you dressed? When you look at others around you, how are they dressed?

WORKING WITH OTHERS, ALONE, OR BOTH?

+Do you work with other people? Do you see yourself meeting with others? Or just chatting with others now and then? What do these others look like? Are they all about your age? Do they have a variety of nationalities, or are they mostly people like you? Male or Female? , What languages are being spoken? Babies, children or young adults? What are these others doing? Something similar to you –or different? Or do you generally work alone and occasionally with others? Or mostly alone?+Do you have a “boss” or a person to turn to with questions? Or do you consult with a group of people? Are there other “living” things around you? Animals? Plants?

TOOLS OF THE TRADE

+What are the “tools” of your job? Do you use a computer? Art supplies? Telephone? Are there books around you? Pens and pencils? Sports equipment? Any other media? Construction materials? Laboratory equipment? Kitchen Utencils? Plants? Vehicles?

LOCATION

+Where are you working? At home? In an office? Outside? What do your surroundings look like? Are they bright with lots of light? Are there colors around you? Or with low lights, calm and quiet? Do you have an enclosed office to yourself? Are you having meetings with others in a beautiful room? Are you outside? If so where? What is the view outside your window? Is there is a window? What is the weather like around you? Are you in a variety of places, or one?

SUBSTANCE

+ What are you doing? Do you see yourself speaking? Working quietly? Laughing? Are you creating something? Are working with numbers? Are you doing a variety of tasks? Are you moving from place to place or do you stay in one spot? Is your work detail oriented? Is it general and more conceptual? Or both? Are you building something? Maintaining something? Creating something new? All of the above? Are you solving problems? Or helping others solve them? Are you learning, or applying what you already know –or both? Are you sharing your knowledge with others verbally, or communicating it in some quieter way, for example through writing or creating something new? Are you on a team as a contributor? Or do you work happily as a solitary figure? Or is there a combination of solitary and work with others? If so, what is the balance of time in each of those areas? If you are learning new things, how are you doing that? Are you in classes? Learning from others? Do you have a boss who is guiding you? Are you studying on your own? Or learning from experience?What does the substance of this work look like? What is the subject matter? Is it something you have done as a hobby, something you are already doing in your career? Or is it something entirely new? Is it creating something new? Or perhaps adjusting and maintain lists, numbers, facts? Are you researching? Are you using your body physically? + Is there something new and novel and different about what you are doing? Is it different from what anyone has done before…or something unusual? Or is it something more traditional and well-established?Now “see” yourself, with whatever came up with the mental images above, thriving, happy, feeling as if you are "contributing" exactly what your unique skills and talents are.Your life and work has meaning! FEEL that satisfaction, contentment, joy –whatever it feels like – and hold that feeling as long as you can!

HOW DO YOU FEEL NOW?

If you have trouble envisioning any of these, don’t worry! These images build on themselves over time –try this exercise a few times and see how it grows! You have started creating a new career for yourself! Thoughts and feelings are “things” –energy that shoots out into the world and brings back like energy! The important thing about this exercise is that you get to the feeling place, and hold it as long as you can.We may not know what we want to DO --but we know how we want to FEEL about our work Try this exercise a few times…it is YOURS and you get to decide what it looks like! If you do it more times you will “build” upon it. You will also “flash” on it during your day –you will see other things you would like to place into your vision. Ask for “help” with it, from whatever Source of Energy you believe in. You will get that help if you ask for it. The point is, whatever you are envisioning, that you feel into it –over time make it less and less a mental exercise, and more a FEELING one. Then, and perhaps this is the most challenging part: release your attachment to the outcome! It will manifest in ways you could never have imagined --even though you did VERY WELL with your imagination! If we have specific expectations about how things come to us, we will limit the endless possibilities available to us (possibilities that go beyond our imaginations). Our careers can manifest beyond our wildest dreams! The irony is: we must create the feelings we want, and then let them go. You have "called in " your new career. Now sit back and allow it to happen!Have fun with this! With warm regards, Jill

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WHO WANTS TO BE A SPIRITUAL MILLIONAIRE?

A LIGHTED-HEARTED GAME SHOW ABOUT CAREER AND BELIEFS

READY?

FOR $100:MY LIFE AND CAREER IS CONTROLLED BY:
A. MY BANK ACCOUNT
B. MY UNGRATEFUL KIDS
C. MY BOSS
D. MY THOUGHTS, FEELINGS, ENERGY AND BELIEFS ABOUT MYSELF AND MY CAREER

FOR $250:HOW I JUDGE, HANDLE, OR FEEL ABOUT ANY SITUATION DEPENDS ONLY ON:
A. HOW I “SHOULD”
B. MY HORMONES
C. MY AWARENESS AND THE CHOICES I MAKE
D.WHETHER MY FAVORITE TEAM WINS THE CHAMPIONSHIP

FOR $500:MY CAREER HAPPINESS IS A REFLECTION OF:
A. HOW MY COLLEAGUES ARE BEHAVING
B. MY BEING A HARD-WORKING AND “GOOD” PERSON
C. MY ENERGY, MY THOUGHTS, FEELINGS AND BELIEFS ABOUT MYSELF AND MY CAREER
D. GOD’S WILL

FOR $1000:SOMETIMES I CAN “BLOCK” THE THINGS I WANT IN CAREER THROUGH:
A. SOME OF MY BELIEFS ABOUT MYSELF AND WORK
B. NOT HAVING ENOUGH MONEY
B. NOT HAVING ENOUGH EDUCATION
D. NOT HAVING A PERFECT BODY

FOR $5000:OF THE FOLLOWING, WHICH IS NOT THE CASE RELATIVE TO ALL MY CAREER EXPERIENCES:
A. SOME JOBS HAVE HELPED ME SEE WHAT I DON’T WANT
B. I HAVE CREATED EVERY ONE OF THEM FOR MY GREATEST GOOD
C. EACH JOB HAS BEEN A POTENTIAL LEARNING TOOL
D. SOME OF THEM WERE HORRIBLE AND I COULDN’T POSSIBLY HAVE CREATED THEM

FOR $10,000:THE ONLY THINGS MY BELIEFS ABOUT MY CAREER DO NOT EFFECT ARE:
A.THAT I AM CREATING ALL OF IT (WHETHER I REALIZE IT OR NOT)
B. HOW COLLEAGUES, CLIENTS AND OTHER PEOPLE ACT TOWARDS ME
C. MY PROMOTIONS AT WORK
D. MY SALARY

FOR $25,000:WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WOULD NOT APPLY TO WHAT WE ARE LEARNING ABOUT OUR BELIEFS AND CAREERS?
A MY LIFE AND CAREER REFLECTS MY BELIEFS
B. MY BOSS IS BLOCKING ME FROM “GETTING AHEAD,” IT’S NOT MY FAULT!
C. MY CURRENT JOB IS A RESULT OF MY BELIEFS
D. MOST OF MY BELIEFS CREATE ABUNDANCE AND HAPPINESS

FOR $50,000:MY SALARY AND ABUNDANCE IS A RESULT OF:
A. HOW MUCH MONEY I HAVE IN THE BANK
B. A RICH HUSBAND
C. THE APPRECIATION OF ALL ABUNDANCE I HAVE AND SEE AROUND ME RIGHT NOW, AND MY BELIEF THAT I DESERVE THAT ABUNDANCE
D. MY VISA CARD CREDIT LIMIT

FOR $100,000:MY ONLY ”REAL” JOB IN LIFE IS TO:
A. SHOW OTHER PEOPLE WHAT THEY ARE DOING WRONG
B. WATCH OUT FOR MISTAKES IN MY OWN BEHAVIOR
C. MAKE SURE I AM DOING EVERYTHING PERFECTLY
D. LIVE PEACEFULLY AND IN HARMONY WITH MYSELF—MY LIFE WILL REFLECT THAT

FOR $250,000:WHEN ENCOUNTERING A CRISIS SITUATION IN MY JOB:
A. I AM HAPPIEST WHEN I FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO BLAME
B. IT IS BEST TO JUST “BE JOYFUL”AND IT WILL ALL GO AWAY
C. I USE IT TO GROW, ACKNOWLEDGE MY FEELINGS, AND REMEMBER “ALL THINGS PASS”
D. ANALYZE THE SITUATION AND THINK ABOUT “WHY” IT IS OCCURRING

FOR $500,000:WHAT IS “SPIRITUAL INDIGESTION”?
A. EATING TOO MUCH TOFU AND BROWN RICE
B. FEELING OVERWHELMED WITH SPIRITUAL INFORMATION AND FORGETTING TO LIVE IN THE “NOW” MOMENT
C. A CONDITION OF THE LIVER
D. SEEING TOO MANY FOREIGN FILMS

AND NOW, THE $1,000,000 QUESTION:

READY?

I CAN CHANGE CAREER BELIEFS THAT DON’T SERVE ME BY:
A. STRUGGLING AGAINST THEM
B. BEING AWARE OF THEM, ACCEPTING THEM, AND NOT FIGHTING THEM. JUST THAT AWARENESS CHANGES ME!
D. GETTING OTHERS TO AGREE WITH ME SO I DON’T HAVE TO CHANGE THEM
C. IGNORING THEM

CONGRATULATIONS!
YOU ARE A SPIRITUAL MILLIONAIRE…BUT THEN, YOU ALREADY WERE!
“ You form the fabric of your experience through
your own beliefs and expectations." – The Seth Material*



·*The Seth material is channeled information received by Jane Roberts during the late 1950’s and 1960’s from an entity calling himself “Seth”. It is now contained in the Yale University archives. There are 25 books, the first of which is called Seth Speaks. Highly recommended for those interested in the physics of reality creation.
Have fun with this! With warm regards, Jill

Jill Coleman is a Career Counselor and Coach, with over 25 years in corporate recruitment for many Fortune 500 companies. She combines practical job search and career selection guidance with an emphasis on the "inner work" --finding your bliss! Please see her website at http://www.counselingjob.net/ or contact her at jill444@counselingjob.net