I always get nervous when a platform describes itself as "anti-censorship," so will be interested to hear your experience when you do get in

And if you're in Edinburgh, our next completely free walk is on Wednesday 11 February at 1 PM - more details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1975108327...

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A wonderful thing about a labyrinth is that even if you think you're going backwards or moving away from the centre, there's only one path - so you're always moving in the right direction. Now there's a thought, as my coaching teacher used to say.

An unexpected pleasure for me was an actual, honest-to-goodness-its-their-day-job artist in the group saw my board and said "Wow! Are you a graphic designer?" Reader, I am not, but what a delight to receive that compliment. What surprising joys might you find in your vision board?

You don't have to be a great artist, you just have to find some images that spark something in you and put them together. Here's one I made earlier on Mel Larsen's Future Seed event! Can you guess what my big vision is for next year?

Maybe you're not a fan. Maybe you find it too woo-woo. Maybe you think it's wishy-washy. Maybe you're not a 'visual person' or you don't think you're creative enough for this kind of thing. But there's plenty of science to back this up too: envision it and your brain will start acting on it!

In other words, to connect with your unconscious desires, beliefs and motivations and bring those into the light to figure out what your performance goals might be! Enter stage left: the vision board.

You can also use more open-ended self-reflective visioning as a way of connecting with something that's important to you without language and analytical thinking.

Loads of research shows that works as a concrete method for performance improvements. This has measurable effects on future performance even if you're a skeptic! We'll be doing this on my upcoming yoga/coaching workshop next weekend... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/focus-on-y...

There are lots of ways to work with visualisation - one of my favourites is a future-visioning exericse where you envision or write, in the most specific detail you can, as though it's already happened, a future success that you want to happen.

So far: nil rejections, 4 submissions (plus 8 December sumbissions I haven't heard back from yet.)

Why not just 100 submissions? I hear you ask, gentle reader. Well, 100 rejections means that each time I get something accepted I still ALSO have to do another submission...so there's no hiding, I just have to keep putting the work out there! 💪📚🚀