Marvelous Vision Board Workshop

by Tammy York

Picture Your Future

The Marvelous Vision Board Workshop is all about you designing your perfect future.

You can’t have your perfect life if you can’t see it. Together we are going to create a roadmap for you to achieve your dreams.

No woo-woo magic involved!

We are going to you to tap into your powerful mind to get what you want out of life. Just like superstars like Oprah, Ellen, Jack Canfield, Jim Carrey, and more have done!

This workshop is right for you if:

You want to create a life you are excited about living
You have had challenges achieving your goals
You know you are meant for more

Ready to be selfish for three wonderful hours and change your life?

Yes! You! Are!

Details:

Light snacks and refreshments provided. You are welcome to bring your own beverage. While we supply all the materials you will need, we do recommend that you bring magazines, catalogs, or printouts of locations, items, or people that bring you joy, happiness, and peace.

What do our students have to say?

“I thought the training was very engaging and helpful.”

~ Julie R., regional education manager

“I have been to a lot of goal setting workshops and I liked Tammy’s the best. I like the different perspective and how it relates to the workings of the brain. As a presenter, she is knowledgeable and was able to relay the information in an understandable way. I will be using this information right away.”

~ Randi G., interpreter

“Our staff needed this! It was the breath of fresh air our team members needed.”

~ Amy R., director

“Tammy is a positive and engaging force of nature. With her workshop, I was able to get out of my way and start writing my book.”

~ Nicole E., writer

FAQs

Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event?

You must be at least 21 years of age to attend the workshop and present your ID and printed ticket at the door to get in.

What can I bring into the event?

We recommend bringing magazines and catalogs that are of interest to you as well as photos of loved ones, places you would like to travel, etc.

What’s the refund policy?

No refunds.

Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?

Yes.

How a Vision Board Smashes Time Wasters

by Tammy York

Vision boards based in “why” help you stay focused on your goals.

One of the common traits for people getting nearing achieving their goals is to find other things to do instead.

It is procrastination, but it doesn’t look that way.

It looks like bingeing Netflix, playing Call of Duty, having people who are drama queens or vampires in your life, finding chores that need done – immediately – or the world will end, roaming social media, volunteering for crap you really don’t want to do, as well as emails, meetings, more meetings, errands, etc.

Time Wasters

Time wasters appear as important work or something you deserve.

But, in all likelyhood, it is busy work that can wait, batched, delegated, or ignored.

However, time wasters can appear as well in the form of too many projects and ideas all vying for your attention and none of them getting the attention they fully deserve.

Focus Your Priorities

You must focus. Believe me, that is super hard to do. I know.

I’m one of those people with a thousand ideas and like crabs in a bucket.

One idea that gets near the top gets close to breaking free of the bucket of ideas is pulled down by the next new shiny squirrel idea.

It was easier for me when I decided to quit my day job and start my business. The difference was I now had a single focus – to be able to spend more time with my children by doing freelance copywriting work.

Vision Boards Help You Stay Focused

Anytime – ANYTIME – I started to stray, I would look at my vision board with my children’s cute little faces. The result was, I could focus again on the things I needed to do.

Time is a Limited Resource

By being able to stay focused and go fulltime freelance I was able to be with my kids more, write a best seller, help businesses grow, and set my schedule and work life. I had time.

I had control of my time and how I spent it.

“What could and would you do if you had control of how you spent your time?”

Why Vision Boards Work

A vision board helps you stay focused and on track because it is a visual reminder of what your goal is and why you have that goal.

However, seeing your goal and the why behind the goal every day helps you avoid those pitfalls of wasted time and shiny squirrels.

Happiness: Are you willing to pay the price for happiness?

by Tammy York

Millstones for Happiness

This morning, I met a friend for a yoga class. She was not in a happy or even a good mood. Crossing her arms, she glowered at the classroom before throwing a mat onto the floor. Anger and frustration radiated from my friend as we took our seated staff poses.

For the next hour, the instructor led our class through a variety of restorative yoga poses from child’s pose to downward dog and from gate to baby cobra and finishing with corpse pose meditation.

After yoga class, it was easy to see that my friend’s energy had shifted dramatically – she was smiling.

I asked, “How are you feeling?”

“I was super angry and now I’m not,” she smiled. “I tried to pick the anger back up and get mad again, but I can’t… I’m too,” she sighed, “happy.”

Pick It Up Again

That phrase caught my attention. “Pick it up again.”

A perfect way to describe how sometimes we choose to be angry with someone or something. What we don’t realize is that we are literally CHOOSING to be that way. We are picking up the anger and lugging it around with us.

I was my own worst enemy because, for a long time, I carried A LOT of anger and resentment and pain. Each day I woke, and I chose to be angry, resentful, and in pain. I chose to carry those millstones around my neck and let them pull me down into the deep dark waters of depression. I allowed them to prevent me from living.

After much time spent in moving meditation, I came to the realization that I didn’t need to carry those stones. That indeed they were not my weight to bear. That was the day I set the anger, resentment, and pain down and walked away from them.

That day, I forgave myself for someone’s trespasses against me. I realized that I had to forgive myself so that I could free myself and move on with my life.

No one has the power to wave a magic wand and forgive someone else – the only person you can truly forgive is yourself.

“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”

~ Anonymous

Anger, resentment, pain, frustrations – those were emotions I was choosing to relive. The trespass happened. It was in my past but I was choosing to relive it day after day after day. I was allowing it to dictate my life by preventing me from living my life.

When I started to feel myself turning towards sinking into the dark waters of depression, I asked myself one simple question, “Is this my weight to bear?”

If the answer was no, then I looked in the mirror and told myself, “This is not your millstone. Sit it down and walk away from it.” I pictured myself sitting down a millstone (or five) and walking away. I know this sounds goofy but it worked.

If the answer was yes, then I asked, “Then what action can I take to alleviate, repair, restore?” Whatever the first answer was, I did. One day the answer was, “Take yourself to a movie. Be kind to yourself.” Another time the answer was, “Paint a heron.” I learned to not question the answers that came but to trust the answer would fulfill some part of me that needed to be restored or repaired. Little by little, I rebuilt myself.

Not every day was perfect, but over time and with practice I was able to free myself from a lot of other people’s millstones.

What Millstones Do You Carry?

Think right now of what millstones you are carrying that aren’t yours.

Maybe someone stole from you and you are angry about it. Maybe someone lied to you and you are hurt that they sacrificed your faith in them. Maybe someone physically or emotionally hurt you and you are mad at them.

All emotions are valid.

However, you must take action to move on, to live your life.

You can decide to not carry their millstone. You can set it down. You can walk away from it.

Once you realize you are choosing to experience the pain, anger, frustration, or hurt and that you can choose to not relive those emotions, you can be like my friend after yoga class – you can choose to not pick it back up again.

You can choose to live and be…happy.