- Hello, hello, hello my friends.
Kaitlyn here and it's that time of year again,
time to lay out your hopes and dreams for the future.
Let's work on this year's vision board.
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Hello, before I dismantle last year's vision board,
I wanted to take one last look at it
and kind of reflect on what I feel like
I was able to accomplish.
Well I would say that the first thing that we can notice
is that this vision board started
in a completely different apartment last year
and has ended in a new one,
which I am very, very happy for,
and I think that had a lot to do with these two,
the speak your truth, or speak truth,
and be your own hero,
because I felt like I did a lot of work
to disentangle myself from my past relationship,
and that meant getting a new apartment on my own.
So yeah, affirming words like fearless,
and tell your story, and stop pretending
everything is okay if it's not.
Over here, we've got imagine, dream, inspire,
which is kind of the tagline for my YouTube channel,
and we've got unicorns and cats and kind of space-themed.
Also, this little animation, or this little drawing
by Mari Andrew where it's your passions are the sun
and you are orbiting it,
but when, in reality, you are the sun,
and your passions are planets that are orbiting you.
I don't want YouTube, my life to be revolving
around YouTube and video making and creative stuff,
I want the creative stuff to be revolving around me.
Got some pictures of Finn in here, here and here
and this was kind of like the thought
of incorporating Finn more into my channel
but I also feel like it was bringing Finn
to live with me which I'm very happy
that I was able to do this year and he's over here
peeking his little head out the window looking at me.
What are you doing?
You having fun?
You're silly.
And the last theme for last year was worth of love
which was really a journey of loving myself
which is something I've always had to work on
and I will continue to work on this year.
Got like purple hair, so I didn't fully dye my hair
a color but I did put in colored extensions,
which was sort of an out of my comfort zone.
Here's my kinda shrine to accepting my body
the way that it is.
Last year was definitely about loving my body
the way that it is right now,
which is not the way that it was when I was like 16
or 22 when I first started dating my ex and that's okay.
I am a 28 year old woman, almost 29 year old woman
and it's not gonna be the same
but I have to come at my body from a place of love
and acceptance and not of a trying to change it
and make it into something that TV says it should be
or men say it should be or something like that
and I do feel like I started that journey
and am still definitely on it
but I made some progress this year.
Alright there it is.
There's last year's vision board.
I'm sad to take it down but I'm also excited
for making a new vision for this year.
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(sighs) woo! (laughs)
You enjoying watching this?
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Woo! Oh my gosh!
That was an intense upper shoulder workout.
Holy cow.
So this year I'm doing something a little bit different
again because I'm always trying to innovate apparently
and I made three lists, a hard and fast to-do list
of specific things that I want to accomplish this year,
then my emotional goals or things I want to work on
in my mental space and then finally my creative goals
or creative practices I wanna cultivate
and then as always some images and text
that I feel like reflect and inspire those goals.
So let's put it together.
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No, no, no, no.
No, no, no, stay there.
Finn!
Oh my gosh.
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We're so close.
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I think I'm done.
Wow, wow, oh, I am tired.
That really gets to your shoulders
and like my fingernails from putting
those little pins under it.
Okay let's talk about what my vision board means
and what all these pretty pictures that I put up there
have to do with what I wanna get done this year.
First we've got the things I want to do.
I definitely need new business cards,
I need to update both of my websites
and I need to update my LinkedIn.
Just a lot of updating.
I really, really, really want to
book a photo shoot for head shots.
I need to Marie Kondo my life and apartment.
I need to pare down extraneous stuff
and selling all the clothes that I have.
Not all of them obviously I still have to wear some.
I really wanna make merchandise like t-shirts and stuff
for iIMAGINEblank and I still wanna start a podcast
and I just need to do it,
which come over here, to emotional goals.
Number two is stop waiting to do the things I want to do.
Because that is a problem.
I say I want to do stuff and then I'm like,
oh but I need permission or oh I need to have,
like know how to do all of it before I can do any of it
and just no, I need to go ahead and start.
Reflecting more and distracting myself less.
This is definitely like not just spending
a whole bunch of random time on my phone
and then finally creative goals.
I need to get back into journaling.
I was really good at it in 2017, 2016,
and then I was terrible in 2018.
And I'd ideally like to write every day
but I don't know if that's a feasible goal.
I got a ukulele last year, I took a couple of classes
because it was part of something that happened at work,
then I like didn't touch it the rest of the year.
So I wanna get back to learning the ukulele
and I think maybe that maybe that just means
I need to take a class this year.
And the last two have to do with writing.
At least a couple people have mentioned
have you ever thought about writing a memoir
because you have experienced so many things
with relationships you might be able to teach
some people things and so I wanna look at
if I could maybe write a memoir
from you know my experiences.
Now let's look at all the pretty pictures and pieces.
On the creative side I've got some color pallettes
because since we're talking about updating websites
and brand graphics and stuff like that.
These purples and then also this like galaxy.
Galaxy cats are kind of the thing that I really want to do
and I really wanna have Finn as a cat in space.
That's, that's like my theme.
I've got quite a few words of encouragement
and different things that I read throughout this past year
that I feel like inspired me and I wanted to continue
that inspiration as I work on some of my emotional goals.
This is some more art by Mari Andrew,
which I had on my vision board last year
and I just, I really connect with her
and so awards that nobody gives out.
For the screen play you hope to write one day,
for the book that's in your head,
and this is like so, so me.
It just goes to that actually doing what I want to do
rather than just being like oh maybe I should do that.
It's more galaxy and space themed girls up here.
Here's some Tessa Violet,
you can see her sprinkled throughout.
I'm actually going to see her in concert in New York City
when I go visit Alann a and I'm so excited.
Just all kinds of things that really make me happy
and make me feel encouraged for the year to come
is really what I'm kind of doing with this board this year
and then having some you know, specific reminders
of things I wanna accomplish.
So, yeah, I'm really excited for this.
Do you have to be involved?
Hm?
You need to be involved in everything?
You like my new vision board?
Are you inspired Finn?
Well thanks guys for doing another vision board journey
with me again this year.
I hope it's inspired you to make your own vision board
in whatever way works for you.
You're so cute!
Yes you are.
You just wanna get up there
and tear down my board, don't you?
Yeah, yeah.
I've talked about this on some previous videos,
but it doesn't have to be like a giant corkboard like mine,
it can be like a Pinterest board
or a desktop background or just like an 8.5x11
sheet of paper or whatever really works for you.
I'm just kind of extra and an over achiever,
so I have to make a giant board, is really what's going on.
The goal really is to just have something
to help you visualize what you wanna accomplish.
Let me know down on the comments
some of your visions for the future
and how you're trying to bring them to fruition.
And as always, remember that you can check me out
on these other social media sites
and if you haven't already,
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And I'll see you guys next Thursday.
Bye!
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