A Vision Board is a visual representation of goals and dreams that becomes a guiding map to get to your destination.

Your Vision Board creates a clear and compelling vision of your Future. It seems like it would be such a fun thing to do, right? For many people it IS fun and those are the people who get the most out of creating a Vision Board.

Over the past decade I’ve been sharing exactly how I create a Vision Board in the Business Vision Board Workshop.

It’s super fun! It makes you take a good look at where you are right now and where you want to go. People have taken my course and have created amazing things in their life.

Some people think that setting goals should be hard, boring and tedious. I don’t agree. I believe the more fun and joy you put into the process of goal setting and planning, the better your results.

Unfortunately, I’ve also found an incredibly interesting thing that stops MOST people from even wanting to set and go after dreams and goals.

It’s called Goal Shame.

I started recognizing this when coaching clients. When I asked clients to set their BIG goals, many times there was massive resistance.

It became evident to me that this massive resistance to EVEN setting goals happens, in part, when you’ve shared your goals and dreams in the past and people around you tell you exactly what they think about your big goals. Things that reinforce natural self-doubt and lack of belief.

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Goal shame - when you set a big goal and instantly feel inadequate or ashamed about your belief and your ability to achieve it.

Things like:

“Who do you think you are?”“Yeah, right, that’ll never happen.”“Hahaha, good one!”“Maybe you should keep your goals a little more ‘realistic’.”“Why can’t you just be happy with the way things are now?”

That last one might be the most insidious comment from other people (including your own brain).

Being happy with your life now IS a very beautiful thing.

AND you are still allowed to want to:

● make a bigger contribution to the world● fulfill more of your incredible potential● be more of who you really are● blow your own mind

Those things are NOT mutually exclusive.

In fact, when you can appreciate everything in your life now, while wanting to create more… well, that’s when the fun really begins!

Before I explain what’s going on in your brain that creates an environment ripe for Goal Shame, I want to tell you that you are not alone - I get Goal Shame too!

It happens to me EVERY single time I set a BIG goal for myself.

Fear and self-doubt are normal because your brain can’t yet recognize your big goal as a reality because it has not been, in fact, your reality - YET.

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Symptoms of Goal Shame - Resistance to goal setting. Hiding goals from other people. Apologizing or having a disclaimer for your goals and dreams. Not wanting

to set goals at all because you might get disappointed

Everyone, no matter how successful you think they are has some version of Goal Shame because we all share a very similar thing.

Our primitive “toddler” brain.

The great news is that when you become aware of Goal Shame and how it happens because your brain is trying to protect you, that awareness ALONE can change everything.

This is the Triad of Motivation.

Dr. Doug Lisle found that our brain evolved over the last 50,000 years to be motivated by 3 things.

1) Efficiency.2) Avoid Pain.3) Seek Pleasure.

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The brain’s triad of motivation is why it feels SO darn hard to grow, change and evolve.

Let’s look at each one of these 3 elements more closely.

First, your brain is wired for efficiency to preserve energy at all costs.

This includes preserving energy by thinking the same thoughts over and over. It takes energy and effort to think new thoughts.

Neural pathways are how your brain preserves energy and runs like an efficient machine. Your brain wants neural pathways to be deep and extremely strong in order to be efficient.

As soon as you set new goals OR you begin toactually go for your goals, your brain tries to getyou back to efficiency by telling you things like:

“Oh you don’t need to get that done right now”“You’re tired, you need to rest instead.”“Why don’t we get in bed and binge on Netflix?”“Let’s see what’s in the pantry.”“But your friends are going to happy hour!”“We can always start tomorrow.”

Second, your brain is wired to avoid pain - in all forms.

Even though there are probably NO tigers around the corner waiting to eat you alive, your brain is wired to self protect at any sign of danger. This includes protecting you from emotional pain.

What does going for your dreams ALWAYS involve?

It involves the pain of rejection, the discomfort of new situations and learnings, the pain of falling short over and over, the disapproval of others AND the fear that is a requirement of courageous action.

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To grow and evolve, emotional pain is not optional. It is REQUIRED.

Third, your brain is hardwired to seek pleasure. This is a HUGE problem now.

As humans evolved, pleasure wasn’t quite so easy to obtain as it is today.

The important drive for pleasure kept our species moving forward with the desire to procreate. When there was an abundance of food - which wasn’t that often and required hard work to get - humans also found pleasure sometimes.

Today, “pleasure” is in abundance and easily available24 hours a day 7 days a week.

When our brain not well-managed and left to its own devices, the easy access to instant gratification pleasure turns into into numbing.

Now our primitive toddler brain can “avoid pain” by getting as much “pleasure” as it wants!

So when the motivational triad of our primitive toddler brain is working EXACTLY as it evolved to do, it makes it difficult to move forward on our goals and dreams in this day and age.

Why?

Because any goal you set is something you have not already achieved. Your brain will do anything to avoid the emotional pain and discomfort of making that effort.

You: “Here’s my new goal!”Your brain: “Bad idea! We’re probably gonna die!”

Instead, your brain will do anything to distract you with instant gratification “pleasure”.

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After doing that a few times, many people simply stop setting goals altogether.

No one teaches us how to manage our brains, so people feel like nothing will ever really change.

Which is terrible because instead of being disappointed by trying to achieve a goal and falling short (but possibly getting halfway there or very close), most people are disappointing themselves in advance because they never EVER really try.

So what is a well-intentioned human who REALLY wants to fulfill more of your potential to do?

Now that you know about the primitive toddler brains motivational triad, you can do something about it. You can train your adult brain to take over.

The prefrontal adult part of your brain can consciously take over with what I call the Visionary Triad.

1) Generate Energy.2) Embrace Emotional Pain.3) Delay Pleasure.

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One of the BEST ways of generating energy is to set clear, specific, measurable goals. In addition to being effective, it’s fun! To join me in the Vision Board Workshop where I show you exactly how, click here.

Below are some Prompts to begin generating new energy.First, think about the version of you who has ALREADY made a specific goal happen. Where are you? Look around. What is surrounding you? Imagine you’re watching a movie of the Future You.

Prompt 1: What are some of the thoughts the Future You would be thinking on a daily basis?

Prompt 2: What are some of the emotions the Future You would be feeling on a daily basis?

Hint: These will NOT be your current thoughts and emotions because you are not yet the future version of you who has achieved that goal.

Now that you know what the Future You would be thinking and feeling, how and where can you begin to live from these thoughts and emotions right now?

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Supplies: For my exact supplies, see the Vision Board list on Amazon here.

Something to hold your Vision.● Cork board, poster board or other flat surface for your finished

Board● Pushpins or tacks to attach your goals and dreams to your

surface

Something to cut and stick things together with.● glue ● tape● or scissors

Something to write, draw and/or paint. (What I affectionately call Magic Wands!) ● watercolors● acrylic paint● paint pens● sharpie markers● colored pencils● colored markers ● or even crayons

Don’t be afraid to dream BIG. Because if not now, when?

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What hurts my heart is the fact that there are SO many people who don’t want to set big goals anymore because of Goal Shame.

The goal isn’t the prize.

Who you become by going after the goal is the TRUE PRIZE.

Even if you don’t reach your big GIANT goals, you’ll be a LOT further along toward them than if you never set your big goals at all.

If you liked this PDF Guide, you will LOVE LOVE LOVE the Business Vision Board Workshop. Click here to find out more and join me.

In the workshop, I walk you through the step-by-step process to fun and inspiring goal setting and goal getting.

If you’re wanting to start or grow a business, you’ll love it.

I’ve had a lot of people who don’t have businesses take it and LOVE it too which is soooo cool!

This year, there are 2 brand new lessons.

New Lesson 1) How to Get It Done -Building your Vision Board is an INCREDIBLY fun and clarifying process Even so, sometimes people get stuck between the dreaming and the action phases. This lesson will help you get more done than you may think is possible right now.

New Lesson 2) How to Coach Yourself - I’ll teach you a powerful process that will help you become aware of the unconscious thoughts, beliefs and emotions currently keeping you from the results you want.

Join me for the Business Vision Board Workshop Here.

I can’t wait to see you on the inside!With Love and Appreciation,Maritza

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