Comments on: Vision Boards Open Your Mind to Possibilities http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/visionboards/ Practical tips for small biz owners Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:19:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ricardo James http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/visionboards/comment-page-1/#comment-25257 Ricardo James Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:54:21 +0000 http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/?p=1147#comment-25257 You're very welcome and Thank you very much. No prob on the emails everything is OK. Have a beautiful day You’re very welcome and Thank you very much. No prob on the emails everything is OK.

Have a beautiful day

]]> By: Karyn Greenstreet http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/visionboards/comment-page-1/#comment-25252 Karyn Greenstreet Sat, 11 Jun 2011 17:37:55 +0000 http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/?p=1147#comment-25252 Hey, Ricardo, you made my weekend! I'm so glad that you found the quotations and the articles inspiring and helpful. Huge congratulations to YOU on making your dream come true! Good for you! P.S. If you're getting 2 emails from me and you only want to get 1, just unsubscribe from the email that goes to the address you DON'T want me to use anymore. :) Hey, Ricardo, you made my weekend! I’m so glad that you found the quotations and the articles inspiring and helpful. Huge congratulations to YOU on making your dream come true! Good for you!

P.S. If you’re getting 2 emails from me and you only want to get 1, just unsubscribe from the email that goes to the address you DON’T want me to use anymore. :)

]]> By: Ricardo James http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/visionboards/comment-page-1/#comment-25251 Ricardo James Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:14:26 +0000 http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/?p=1147#comment-25251 Hi Karen, I've been meaning to tell you for the longest time that you were a big inspiration for me starting my business and a lot of it also had to do with a vision board example in my office cubicle with print outs I made from your newsletter articles. I remember doing a search and finding your company on the web where I signed up that same day (7/25/05) to receive your newsletters. On the right hand side of those newsletters were inspirational and motivational quotes from different people. I would copy those quotes, enlarge them and paste them all over and I mean all over my cubicle. People would walk in and say holy cow what is going on here. Things like we always knew you were a positive person but you've taken this positive stuff to another level and I would just laugh with some of the statements that were made from co-workers. My manager hearing about this walked in and read every single quote. After he was finished he looked at me and smiled and walked right back out. Absolutely no words were exchanged but that smile was worth a thousand words. I was so driven that I would stay back late researching and doing due diligence on what it would take to start a business. At times doubt would come in, to not take the risk, to just to stay in my comfortable cubicle, to not be bothered with the amount of time and effort it would to take to get it going and to keep it going, etc. But I would start reading those positive quotes and get my mind right back into gear. Nine months later I started the business and I can't believe it took me 6 years to say THANKS for helping make my dream become a reality. I've always had the passion but your passion for business helped my passion and drive become that much greater. While things have been up and down which was expected and as things are looking brighter for the company, there is no better feeling of gratitude and accomplishment knowing that my "self employed" at the time company (we've now grown) is providing solutions to help other small businesses succeed. YOU ROCK !! If you look in your database you may see my name listed with two different email addresses. I signed up with my gmail in '05 and for some reason not sure why I did but signed up a few years ago with a different email. Have a wonderful weekend Hi Karen,

I’ve been meaning to tell you for the longest time that you were a big inspiration for me starting my business and a lot of it also had to do with a vision board example in my office cubicle with print outs I made from your newsletter articles. I remember doing a search and finding your company on the web where I signed up that same day (7/25/05) to receive your newsletters. On the right hand side of those newsletters were inspirational and motivational quotes from different people. I would copy those quotes, enlarge them and paste them all over and I mean all over my cubicle. People would walk in and say holy cow what is going on here. Things like we always knew you were a positive person but you’ve taken this positive stuff to another level and I would just laugh with some of the statements that were made from co-workers. My manager hearing about this walked in and read every single quote. After he was finished he looked at me and smiled and walked right back out. Absolutely no words were exchanged but that smile was worth a thousand words.

I was so driven that I would stay back late researching and doing due diligence on what it would take to start a business. At times doubt would come in, to not take the risk, to just to stay in my comfortable cubicle, to not be bothered with the amount of time and effort it would to take to get it going and to keep it going, etc. But I would start reading those positive quotes and get my mind right back into gear. Nine months later I started the business and I can’t believe it took me 6 years to say THANKS for helping make my dream become a reality. I’ve always had the passion but your passion for business helped my passion and drive become that much greater. While things have been up and down which was expected and as things are looking brighter for the company, there is no better feeling of gratitude and accomplishment knowing that my “self employed” at the time company (we’ve now grown) is providing solutions to help other small businesses succeed.

YOU ROCK !!

If you look in your database you may see my name listed with two different email addresses. I signed up with my gmail in ’05 and for some reason not sure why I did but signed up a few years ago with a different email.

Have a wonderful weekend

]]> By: Karyn Greenstreet http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/visionboards/comment-page-1/#comment-25247 Karyn Greenstreet Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:53:02 +0000 http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/?p=1147#comment-25247 That's a great idea, Dawn! I wonder if my local High School would be open to me coming in an teaching the students how to create Vision Boards? That’s a great idea, Dawn! I wonder if my local High School would be open to me coming in an teaching the students how to create Vision Boards?

]]> By: Dawn http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/visionboards/comment-page-1/#comment-25246 Dawn Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:38:22 +0000 http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/?p=1147#comment-25246 A few years ago as a non-profit program director for a women's center, I brought in a speaker who showed us how to do vision boards. The women served there were often facing a gambit of huge difficult challenges. The whole group that evening had so much fun creating our first one. I've created a number of boards for myself since and showed my niece who is now also creating vision boards. As a student of psychology, I even know what's operating behind the curtain so to speak and it's still no less magical! I started years ago by writing out my visions, looked back and what I had written had happened. Like John Assaraf it was almost startling how much I had specifically accomplished within a few years. (I later read a great resource by Henriette Anne Klausner's Write it Down, Make it Happen - "Ah, so that's why" I said) and the visual option has been great as well. There should be a short course on this in high school or college. A few years ago as a non-profit program director for a women’s center, I brought in a speaker who showed us how to do vision boards. The women served there were often facing a gambit of huge difficult challenges. The whole group that evening had so much fun creating our first one. I’ve created a number of boards for myself since and showed my niece who is now also creating vision boards. As a student of psychology, I even know what’s operating behind the curtain so to speak and it’s still no less magical! I started years ago by writing out my visions, looked back and what I had written had happened. Like John Assaraf it was almost startling how much I had specifically accomplished within a few years. (I later read a great resource by Henriette Anne Klausner’s Write it Down, Make it Happen – “Ah, so that’s why” I said) and the visual option has been great as well. There should be a short course on this in high school or college.

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