When You’re Ready to Take Charge of Your Life, Create a Vision Board

The almost, only tool you need to get excited about your life

Frances Hickmott
Curious
Published in
5 min readFeb 16, 2022

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Photo from Author

One Tool to rule them all, One Tool to find them,
One Tool to bring them all, and in the light, you’ll bind them

Shamelessly adapted from Lord of the Rings, there is one terrific tool that used correctly can take you out of feeling dark and hopeless and excited about your life. It’s so powerful, you can use it repeatedly. It won’t break and it costs you nothing.

You will however have to take full responsibility for what it uncovers and for taking the next steps.

Ready?

One Tool to Find Them

“Them” are the building blocks of what constitutes a life you feel satisfied and happy to live. The easiest means of getting to those blocks is a cool little tool used by coaches the world over. It’s called a Wheel of Life.

Picture from Author’s book — Journey to Joy

The idea is to do a fun little assessment of how satisfied you feel in each of these areas. The inner-circle represents a state of being completely unsatisfied…

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Frances Hickmott
Curious

Writer/Speaker/Author-” Journey to Joy,” writes about mental health, self-improvement, and resilience.