This post is about the power of intention setting, manifesting or vision boarding. The name is not as important as the activity. We recently moved back to Minnesota after living in Nevada for nine years, more on that experience in another post. We’d been back home for about six months when I finally had the time to tackle some unpacked storage bins. Now, these bins hadn’t touched in more than a decade. My husband “threatened” to throw them out more than once. Poor guy, he was the one having to lift these heavy things. AND they took up precious storage space in his beloved garage. However, he honored inner pack-rat and kept the bins. And boy-howdy am I glad he did!
I found a notebook filled with writing exercises from Julia Cameron’s “The Artist’s Way.” As I flipped through the notebook, the images below jumped out at me. They were from an exercise from Chapter 5: Recovering a Sense of Possibility. The prompt was to collect images representing ten things I wished to own but didn’t at the time.
![Intention setting Photos pasted in a spiral bound lined notebook. Photo 1) words handwritten on the top of the page Ch 5 #7 (referring to prompt in the Artist's Way), below that and to the left: "10 items I would like to own are" and handwritten above the magazine photo "A window seat!" The image is of a kitchen with a window seat under a window flanked by two shelves. there is a table in front of the window seat. Photo 2) handwritten words at the top "A fantastic outdoor space" The image shows fall colored leaves, a deck railing, the top of a bench and a Deck Pergola. Photo 3) Handwritten words at the top "A porch...not this one but a porch non the less." The image shows a large white house with a wrap-around porch on the main level and an additional porch on the top floor.](https://ccwithdrt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/38641/2023/11/Windowseatmanifesting.jpeg)
![Photo 2) handwritten words at the top "A fantastic outdoor space" The image shows fall colored leaves, a deck railing, the top of a bench and a Deck Pergola.](https://ccwithdrt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/38641/2023/11/Outdoor-space_manifesting.jpeg)
![Photo 3) Handwritten words at the top "A porch...not this one but a porch non the less." The image shows a large white house with a wrap-around porch on the main level and an additional porch on the top floor.](https://ccwithdrt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/38641/2023/11/Manifestingporch.jpeg)
Imagine my surprise and absolute delight when I realized that the first three things that I wished to own but didn’t are in our new home! My mind was blown. I had completely forgotten about this notebook and the images that I had collected. I am so thankful that I found this notebook to be reminded that the dreams I put down on paper 17 years ago…came true…AND even better than I could have imagined.
![Intention setting success! Photo 1) a window seat with a lace valance, a yellow blanket with waves covering the cushion, four pillows to the left of the window are two small square quilted pillows in yellow, blues, and white and to the right of the window is a large navy pillow and in front of that pillow is a flower pillow the petals are in light blue with a yellow center. To the right of the window seat is a quilt holder with a matching quilt draped over it in blues, yellow, and white patterned fabric. Photo 2) a paved path, with fall colored flowers to the right of the path, a driveway with a few cracks in it and beyond the driveway a number of trees in fall yellow and a couple of evergreens mixed in. Photo 3) paved walk way, green plants in front of a porch. the porch is open with a brown post, on the porch is a small table and an l-shaped outdoor couch with cream colored cushions.](https://ccwithdrt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/38641/2023/11/windowseat_dreamscometrue.jpeg)
![Photo 2) a paved path, with fall colored flowers to the right of the path, a driveway with a few cracks in it and beyond the driveway a number of trees in fall yellow and a couple of evergreens mixed in.](https://ccwithdrt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/38641/2023/11/myviewfallMNporch.jpeg)
![Photo 3) paved walk way, green plants in front of a porch. the porch is open with a brown post, on the porch is a small table and an l-shaped outdoor couch with cream colored cushions.](https://ccwithdrt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/38641/2023/11/frontporch_dreamscometrue-1024x703.jpeg)
Full disclosure: I never finished the Artist’s Way, but I will now, to see what else might surprise me! I would love to know – what ten items would you like to own, but don’t yet? Take action with me by setting an intention of your own. My recommendation? Set it and forget it! Share in the comments below or create your own collection of images and email me, I’d love to hear from you!
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