The vision board that got me the job I’d never heard of before yet turned out to be the perfect match for me.
Stuck in a rut
Stuck in a rut, I couldn’t figure the route out of it. I needed a vision, a life direction. But how would I find one of those when I don’t know what it should contain?
I turned to my own method – the Intuitive Vision Board – to come up with the answers. The crazy thing was I didn’t realise the vision board had done just that until years later I’d found myself recapping my story to a friend called Linda. That vision board was nothing short of a miracle.
Recapping my story
I’m driving back from Portsmouth one Friday evening with Linda in the passenger seat beside me. We’d been attending an Author’s event about writing a business-building book. I’ve been listening to other people share their book ideas and fascinating backstories as to how they came to write them – and mine feels as dull as a mud flap.
I’ve got a book plan in place. Eight chapters identified. But no content for them. Every time I sit down to fill in the gaps nothing happens. A classic case of writer’s block at the first gate.
Linda and I had been sharing experiences when she suddenly turns on me and says: “Mary, what has your Intuitive Vision Board ever done for you?” I immediately thought of the Monty Python line: “What did the Romans ever do for us?” except I didn’t find it funny this time.
I was livid and I took it that Linda was challenging the value of the process I’d created. “Give me a break” I thought “it’s 10.30pm at the end of a busy week and I’ve just driven you to Portsmouth and back!” Worst still, I didn’t have an answer for her. Thankfully I kept my mouth shut and stopped short of leaving her by the roadside and driving off.
Still livid and frustrated when I got home, I flung myself into bed. The next morning when I came to write my Morning Pages, I started writing big time ….
Despair
Instead of my usual three pages of longhand with whatever was on my mind, 10 pages emerged. I was writing to Linda. I was telling her in no uncertain terms about the forlorn woman I was three years earlier who unexpectedly found herself out on the street, with a disgruntled 16-year old and a lively Labrador dog.
Three lost souls. We’d lost everything and were struggling to find a foothold again. It took me 20 attempts to find a house to rent that was both affordable and would take the dog. I had to furnish it from scratch on a shoe-string. Then, with no money left at all, I was bouncing from one Universal Credit to the next. I felt desperate. My so-called family turned their back on us. It was all I could do to walk the dog each day and put a hot meal on the table I felt so low.
I drifted through those early days in a daze, barely speaking to anybody because I felt so ashamed to be in this situation. The towering brick wall that greeted me each morning outside my bedroom window, summed up exactly how I felt. “Christ”, I thought, “how on earth did I end up in this place and how the hell am I going to get out of it?”
Hope
One morning, waking up to the same brick wall, it came to me: ‘It’s time to create a new Intuitive Vision Board. Remember? The process you used to teach?” So I grabbed a handful of magazines from my workshop stash, a Pritt stick, a pair of scissors and the largest mount board I could find at Hobbycrafts – and I settled back into my chair.
I allowed myself be drawn to pictures in without stopping to analyze why. The colours, places, body language, expressions on peoples’ faces – anything that caught my attention. Very soon I’d gathered up a big pile of images – some were cut out, some torn – and I began to arrange them into a collage. I wasn’t attempting to create anything in particular. I was letting the pieces move around the board until they found their rightful place, my intuition guiding me not my logic.
When it was finished I placed the vision board on the mantelpiece and was thoroughly uplifted by it. It was fascinating to see there was not a trace of the darkness or angst I was experiencing at the time. I could only hazard a guess as to what the images were about. Some were a complete mystery. But I do know they gave me hope when I contemplated them.
I was particularly struck by the woman floating on her back in the middle of a lake, in a state of bliss. She looked so peaceful and at one with herself in contrast to how I felt. I’d surrounded her by four images of ocean scenery. And there was Daniel Craig, coming out of the sea towards me…
The vision board that got me the job – and a breakthrough
In the weeks that followed little appeared to change on the surface of things but much repair work must have taken place beneath, with the inspiration on my vision board working quietly away on me. I was feeling happier in myself and felt able to go dancing again, something I always loved to do. I was drawn to a tango workshop where I was paired with a stranger called Chris. We struck up a conversation in the break and I found myself asking him did he know of anybody who needed some part-time work doing. He didn’t – but he did have his own company, liked the sound of me and was willing to try me out.
It was only later, looking at my vision board with the floating woman surrounded by the images of the ocean, that my jaw dropped. The name of his business was Ocean Float Rooms.
Synchronicity? Intuition? Precognition? Or a mixture of all three? Whatever it was, it was remarkable because I’d chosen those images six months before I met Chris and before I ever knew what a float room was. My new boss even had the looks and body of Daniel Craig, although he only once showed up at the office in his swimming trunks.
Chris manufactured floatation rooms and my job was to sell them to wellbeing centres and private individuals around the globe. In the three years I worked for him, I not only crawled out of the financial hole I was in. But also by talking to people around the world and selling float rooms at £25,000 a shot, restored my confidence no end.
When I left Ocean Float Rooms, I was ready to take my own business to the next level and could afford to create a website. The Intuitive Vision Board had helped me resolve some serious life challenges with solutions I’d never heard of before. I was left in no doubt, if it could do this for me, it could do the same for others who found themselves at a crossroads wondering which road to take.
Reconciliation
The fascinating thing was I never realised any of this backstory until I found myself pouring my heart out in writing to Linda that morning. I’d been so preoccupied with surviving, I hadn’t stopped long enough to piece it all together or link it back to the original vision board.
My frenemy Linda, who I’d almost left by the roadside, turned out to be my Fairy Godmother. She’d pushed my buttons so hard, it had transported me to a new place entirely. Without her, I might not have found my mojo to write and publish – Awaken Your Intuitive Vision. Or, have the same commitment to the Intuitive Vision Board workshop that I’ve been storming ahead with ever since.
I did write to Linda and thank her and we laughed about it together.
When my daughter came home that day after Tango there was fresh salmon on the table rather than tuna out of the tin. “Honey, your mother’s got a job and we’re celebrating.”
Mary Nondé
Mary is the originator of the Intuitive Vision Board. She has inspired many to live their best lives ever with her ground-breaking intuitive process. She teaches online and offline workshops accompanied by intuitive readings.
Mary Nondé is the author of Awaken Your Intuitive Vision.
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