It gave me an opportunity to categorise and elaborate on all my ideas that I have going around in my head for years. 

I was able reflect and see just how far I have come, and it also gave me the ability to clearly define my priorities for the future, which in some way all relate to my first theme, which is the juggle of the work life balance. 

The realisation of setting short, medium and long terms goals is something I will re-assess in greater detail personally as I wasn’t in a positive mindset for the past 12-18months. By keeping myself accountable for the goals I set, revisiting them quarterly to ensure I set myself up for success. 

Planning and setting goals are a beneficial way to maintain a fresh outlook on work and life providing direction and a point of reference in times of feeling overwhelmed or lost. The other important aspect this exercise has uncovered is identifying what’s relevant to me in a world where time only allows for so much. I will ensure my time is spent more productively by using my goals as stepping stones, measuring success by ticking off goals I have achieved and taking time to reflect on how far I’ve come and the path I have ahead.  

For me, I know that whilst I do enjoy having nice things, my inner happiness is what means most to me. I am content in my industry, although I always want to improve, but I try to focus on a holistic approach to improving myself; if I take care of my mind, my body and my happiness then I am able to be a better friend, partner and employee. 

My vision board shows images of friends, family, and pets. I suppose this theme could be summed up as ‘relationships’ in general. Humans are social creatures, and I’m no different from that. These relationships provide support and strength, and a means to express yourself and show off who you really are by sharing interests and other traits. Pets are loyal beyond anyone else and give unconditional love, which I very much welcome. Very cute, too.

The vision board illustrates the most focused and concerned current thoughts in my mind. It has been surprisingly helped me to pull out thousands of my inside concerns into one single canvas.  The attached images to the vision board represent a verity of my primary impressions at present. Also, these are can be introduced as my future goals to be accomplished. I highly believe that this vision board activity is extremely suitable to see through our minds and prioritised the most wanted future accomplishments into one document in a positive mode. 

(The main idea of this theme is I should be healthy to look after my family and myself)

(Photo of the vegetable and fruits background)

As most of the people even I concentrate to look after my family. It is the key reason to stay in healthy with eating vegetarian healthy food. I do everything that I can do to protect my husband and only one daughter. Before my marriage I was fat and was eating many junk foods. As well as I got some diseases such as diabetics, headache, low and high blood pressure. But after mu marriage I got a baby I thought to live healthy because I have my own responsibility to look after my husband and daughter. Now I am a slim and beautiful mother. In the future I need to continue my health life to live long and healthier. The theme is directly linked to two main factors such as identity, responsibility, energy, and self development.

Identity:

(Map photo of Sri Lanka and food on banana leaf photo)

I am very proud to say I am a Sri Lankan Buddhist woman. As a Sri Lankan I was encouraged to be a vegetarian woman. I Sri Lanka one of traditional eating way is eat on a banana leaf. If you eat on banana leaf it will be very delicious and healthier. Being a healthier, slim and pretty, wife and a mother is the most significant factor of my identity. Most of the Sri Lankan people used to eat healthy rice and curry using more ingredients that provide more nutrition for three times per day. That is why they are more powerful and intelligent.

Responsibility:

(healthy vegan shopping list photo and good nutrition will prevent 95 per cent of all disease photo)

As a wife and a mother my main responsibility is look after my family with serving healthy food. Food is one of the main needs of human needs. I am responsible for protecting my family from diseases. So I should feed my family good healthy food. Besides it is expensive to be unhealthy. If we are healthy we can save money. Childhood eating habits usually develop and continue into adulthood. It essential teaching children the importance of eating a healthy diet as my responsibility.

 

Energy:

(Background photo and fruits and vegetable body photo)

Eating a healthy diet decreases mental physical health because healthy eating allows us to be energetic. Starchy vegetables and whole grains are better for energy in the long run as they are digested slower. Water is essential for transporting nutrients, and dehydration can source energy shortages. Iron deficiency can cause fatigue, burns and low energy. When we eat healthy food, we can get energy and we can do daily tasks more efficiently.

 

Self development:

(Apple photo and exercise photo)

Food can affect on our mood and mood can affect our choices of food. When we are sad probably we tend to choose unhealthy food. But when we are happy we are encouraged to choose healthy food. Additionally Food has capability to effect on our thinking. If the body has low glucose, the brain does not receive the energy it needs to stay focused. Healthy foods such as berries, tomatoes, nuts and avocados contain some minerals and vitamins that are good for our skin. Eating a balanced diet helps for a healthy immune system. If our diet includes fruits and vegetables it helps to control body weight, cholesterol and blood pressure.

 

My comment

When I do this assignment I could feel more active and interest. I enjoyed very well throughout the time. When I find photos of food I could experience an incredible interesting because food is the most essential need of human. I found the overall result surprising with gaining more knowledge. I think I could complete this assignment successfully. The goal was my theme is to show the importance of eating healthy vegetarian food and I successfully accomplish the goal.

 

I am a person who is highly passionate about the things I do , by putting my vision board in a place that I can see it everyday makes me visualize about my life . at first I will group my vision board in to themes such as success , family , travel ,goals ,  self development and briefly describe them . 

 

( photo of man jumping off a cliff and graduation ) 

 I want to follow my passion and build confidence to be successful in life . Getting a first class and graduating from my university will be the first goal for me to accomplish in my life . After graduating my bachelor degree, work is the main key object in life and I would like to build up my career in business . one of my dream goal is start one of my own business and become a millionaire . when I was 8 years old , becoming a millionaire was my dream goal .Because  money is powerful in this world , I  thought it can satisfy our desires but it can never buy things like love , time and knowledge . Every new day I have new opportunities to start with . I decided that I will attain my future career in one of the highest positions in a business company . All my future goals will remain as dreams if I didn’t work for it .I have to study hard and get the scores that is necessary to get the highest in my degree and after I graduate from my university I will definitely  find a good job and  for that I need to work hard and make a lot of effort to make my self perfect for the job . 

 

 

Family is the most important part of the life and my life is full of dreams and I will do my best to make my dreams turn in to a reality . I mostly plans things ahead and most of the plans are for my future family because it’s very important have a beautiful happy life with a family we love . without succeeding in my education and work ,  its hard to make a living on low income . I want to find my ideal woman and get married to her as well as share all my sorrows and dreams with her. Its always important have someone who can rely on .I want to give a better life to my future family and I want my kids to have the greatest life and also I will have a healthy and happy relationship with them. when I grow up , my parents gave me everything that I needed and like them , I want my kids to have more than what I had as a kid . 

 

One of the best things I love is travelling , I love adventure and going around the world and it gives me a excitement . I want to take a long road trip around Australia and I always wanted to see the aurora event  in Iceland .i would love to travel with my family and spend time happily . I will try to travel at least once a month  and find new places . 

 

I have been imagining about having a huge house with a huge pool  since I was a little boy . its one of my main goals to achieve in my life . I always imagined to have large windows to make my house bright and I want to have a big garden surrounding my house and I don’t like living in apartments or flats or near the city . I want to have my future dream house located outside from the city . I’m a person who adores nature so I would build my house somewhere peaceful . 

 

I want to have plenty of cars at my place , I’m very passionate about cars and the one I want buy first is the newest range rover edition by that time . everything we do is for a reason and having our own vehicle is a common goal for human beings . since I was 15 years old , I wanted to go the electronic festival called Tomorrowland , it’s the largest music festival in the world , because I’m a huge music lover , I want to go there someday . 

 

 

Without a right plan no one can achieve their goals in future . I want to discover new things in life and plan to make impossible work possible . To become successful I will have to dream big , even if my goals become hard , I want to keep trying to achieve them without giving up .  because I’m going to do my career in business , thinking big ideas and dreaming big is very important , sometimes people will laugh at me when I imagine things that is impossible but I’m not going to make it a excuse for my future life . For everything I want to do , having a  healthy and fit body is important . 

 

After doing this assessment of making a vision board , it gave me a huge motivation and a surprising  connection that motivates me in to my future goals . what I understood is that this assessment is just not about the pictures , it makes me understand about my vision and clarify what I want in my life . it really helps to figure out all the big dreams inside my head and it made me think more deeper and focus more in to my future .  

 

My name is Akeel Zakir. 

A Vision Board is a tool which will help us clarify and concentrate on our goals or a specific life goal. In my vision board I’ve included all my dreams in life which in other words is my life goals in one collage. 

This vision board gave me the opportunity to put in all my goals, needs, wants, more or less everything I would like to achieve in one picture and made me thrive to achieve it along with giving me the motivation to work for it. 

As figured out in the previous assignment, I am said to be a visual learner which I already know that I like to learn through visuals than listening.

Having said this, I am so glad that I got this opportunity as an assignment towards the end of 2019, because this vision board is a motivation for me for what I need to achieve in 2020 in order to achieve my end goals which is portrayed in my collage. 

My collage consists of mainly my long term goals and not goals only for 2020 because only then I believe I would be able to achieve it slowly and one day I can tick it all done.

I enjoyed doing this assignment because this isn’t only an assignment but one of my life pathway if done honestly hence I did it with my fullest concentration which allowed me to focus on what I need to achieve in life, what needs to be changed right now in order to go in the correct path, what do I lack, a guide to achieve my goals and last but the most important a constant remainder of my goals because I have kept a frame of my vision board in my study table where I will come across it several times a day. By doing this I believe that I won’t lose motivation to achieve what I need in life. 
I know my goals aren’t achievable in one night or from my comfort zone but I definitely know that if I work for it I can achieve it and that’s what I am going to do from now onwards as per my plan

The collage below is my vision board which consists of several pictures which In simple is my dream and goal to succeed in life completing my degree successfully and taking over my Dads business which is a Shirt Manufacturing company in Sri Lanka in order to make it even more successful in front of his eyes as per his wish. 

While achieving this I always want to keep my family happy and keep my religious activities up to date too because without the help of God there is no success in life.

Lastly, as any individual would have their own wants so in my case it’s to buy my favorite sports car and build it according to my wish, to build my own house and my most favorite hobby which is to travel all around the world whenever I can afford it.

Once again I am so glad that I got this opportunity to create a vision board for myself by letting me start 2020 with motivation.