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Got a Vision?

December 16, 2020 by Heather Filed Under: Art & Design, Creative process, Inspiration & Education, Planning & Goals, Productivity, Wellness & Mindset Leave a Comment

It’s been a challenging year and allowing ourselves to plan for the future still doesn’t quite feel natural. So for those of us use to planning, this state of uncertainty feels uncomfortable and possibly even scary. Yet, there are a lot of different ways to plan for the unknown. One way is to envision where you are headed. This type of planning is less rigid than sitting down with a calendar and deciding on goals, penciling in when you want to achieve them, and mapping out how to get there. A vision board is a wholly different kind of map.

Over the past five years, I’ve led quite a few vision board workshops at conferences, meetings, and art studio’s, one thing they always have in common, they are so much fun and unexpectedly powerful! Everyone from Oprah and Ellen to life coaches and artists uses vision boards as a creative tool to help gain clarity on setting intentions and goals. Have you created a vision board before?

When I create a vision board and lead a workshop I begin with helping you get clear about what you want to see happen in your life. Our imagination gets lazy and when that happens we sell our-self short of amazing possibilities! Imagine bigger, brighter, easier outcomes that are more joyful! Imagination is a muscle that requires regular exercise.

Think of making a vision board as a fun workout for your imagination!

The process of creating a vision board is a powerful tool for setting our intention and creatively visualizing that outcome. For some of us, these might be “goals.” For others, it might be an “intention” or a “feeling.” Through words and images, we can map our vision. This process helps us find clarity about what we are creating in our day-to-day lives through the choices we make. Our vision boards become a powerful touchstone to bring us back to our intentions when we feel we are off course or unclear.

When we get stuck or overwhelmed in the process of working through change in our lives, it can be refreshing to get out of our thinking mind and into our creative body. By asking ourselves what we want things to look like and how we want to feel, we embrace and tap into our creative connection with the universe, god, whatever that might mean to each of us.

So I am offering an online vision board workshop on Sunday, December 27th from 1-5 pm EST. It’s a pay what you can and I am inviting the first 12 people who sign up (here) to join me. If you can pay something (suggested $26), great but it’s not required. I want to see more powerful positivity manifested in 2021, this is my small contribution.

Even if you can’t join this time, I will offer the workshop again online soon. For those of you who want to do this on your own, the following instructions will get you going!

STEP 1: Gather : Flip through magazines and cut images and words that “speak to you”. Collect anything that delights or calls to you and have fun with the process.

STEP 2: Sort : If you run out of magazines or feel like you have “enough” begin to sort through setting things aside into three piles:

KEEP/LOVE!-These images and words feel right, bring you joy, you feel connected and they make your “heart sing”- trust your intuition.

MAYBE-These have an element that has attracted you but don’t quite excite you as others.

DISCARD- on second thought, something doesn’t feel quite right about these, it’s okay to put them away for later.

STEP 3: Arrange : Group images and words together as you begin to place them on your board. As you do this, you’ll get a sense of how the board should be laid out. You can follow a more aesthetic look or go about this in a random manner, there’s no right or wrong!

STEP 4: Attach : After you’ve arranged all the items in a way that works for you, paste everything onto the board. Take your time, attach smaller pieces to larger, think in layers.

STEP 5: Display : Hang your Vision Board in a prominent place where you’ll see it regularly, like the laundry room a closet, or inside a door.

The vision board process can help us find clarity and communicate our ideas in an effortless and creative way by tapping into our intentiohns, dreams, and envisioning them. The process doesn’t have to be exact or precise to work either! We can manifest how we want to feel, where we want to live or what we want our days to include. Vision boards can work in many areas of our life. I keep a small sketchbook that I create two-page spreads based on categories I dream about such as love relationships, home, travel (on hold for now;) and more.

Please give this a try and share your results with me if you like! Email me photo’s of your vision board or share via social media with #hkpscreativevisioning

Envision Epic Achievements

February 8, 2020 by Heather Filed Under: Art & Design, Inspiration & Education, Organize, Organizing Projects, Wellness & Mindset

As we embark on a month focused on Self Care I want to share a fun tool I use to set my intention and get going on the right footing for the new year (or at the start of new projects) to help me envision epic achievements! Anytime I get to pull out scissors, magazines etc it takes me back to my days as a designer. In both my Art classes and in my industry job I often found it helpful if not essential to create “mood boards” or gather creative ideas on paper (sketchbook or boards). If you’ve never done this, don’t worry…there is no wrong time or wrong way to create a vision board!

As we head into the next month, I will be shifting focus towards spring cleaning, purging, de-cluttering, simplifying. This can be a great time to create a vision board for how you want your home to look and feel. You might consider giving your vision board a boost by working with a word of the year. It’s not essential to the process of creating a vision board but it can give you some guidance and focus. Your vision board can be as broad or as specific as you like.

Creating an Vision Board is something I started doing back in 2011. It’s one of the annual planning tools I have the most fun with! Some people call these Vision Boards others call them Action boards (for those that feel the word “Vision” is to woo-woo).

Some people like to do a digital vision board, others prefer to use all images but I love to sit down with all these fonts, colors, words and phrases and just start allowing them to come together and create a flow of juxtaposition. So much magic happens when I sit down to create my vision board…and the magic just keeps happening throughout the year.

Vision boards can take a good bit of time. Give yourself a total of 3-8 hours to complete yours, from gathering ideas and supplies to getting everything in place. How much time it takes you will depend on how large your board is and how detailed you want to be.

Select a type of vision board (personal, creative, images, words, a hybrid of both) that will be a touchstone and inspiration for creative progress throughout 2017. Your focus can be on home life, creative life, career, pets, family etc-whatever is important to you and where you may want more guidance and support.
Gather a supply of magazines/resources to select from to embody your personal expression. This can include books, printed images, catalogs, scraps of paper or fabric, stickers, embellishments or anything else you like.
Gather other supplies, including poster board or foam core (my personal favorite is the kind with one sticky side!), scissors, a glue stick and tape. You may also want markers.
Set your intention for this board, you’ve decided on your “type” and your intention is a more focused way of deciding what you want to include or not. You may want to list words or images you would like to include.
Flip through your resources and tear or cut out images and words. You can do this while listening to music, watching movies, listening to podcasts, anytime really. At this stage you are looking for words and images that capture how you want to feel.
Start to lay out your images and words on your board. There’s no right way here but I’ve found that starting with the larger elements first can help. As you sort through everything you have cut out, be sure to include your most important ideas, set them aside and allow other ideas that don’t seem to fit to fall away. Deciding what NOT to include can be just as important as what you add.
Once you are happy with your arrangement overall (still not glued down-just loose), snap a picture with your phone and then start to remove each area and glue things down. You can work one area at a time or in layers. Having a picture to refer back to can be fun because it’s never going to be exactly the same but it give you a little “map” to follow for your puzzle.

There is really something incredibly powerful about “visioning” a rich and creative year (or anything) to come! It can be fun to do a quick vision on a small sheet to brainstorm smaller projects or time frames too!

Finally, you may be asking how does this help you get organized? If you feel there are areas in which you would like a different outcome in your life try creating a vision board to activate and attract what you want to accomplish and how you envision it in your ideal reality. Use images and words that feel the way you want to feel about your space and your life.

However you want to create your board and whatever you call it, just know that by being very clear about what you want to manifest in your life and putting it down in a concrete way you are more likely to draw attention to theses aspects of yourself (actions, thoughts, etc). It’s all about the law of attraction. When I look back at the last years vision boards I’m truly amazed at the ways in which the specific wishes, desires, dreams and actions have been attracted into my life!

How do you envision the next quarter, year, project, career or home? What do you want to attract and are you creating any type of vision board to activate the process? If so, please please share it with me on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook with the hashtag #powervision17!

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Vision Board Workshops

Do you know what a Vision Board is? It’s a way to manifest your dreams.

When you attend one of my Vision Board Online Workshops, you get clear on what you want to attract in your life, your business, and your relationships!

It sounds pretty simple! It’s also super POWERFUL and so much FUN! Sadly, most of us never make the time. We let our busy, distracted lives keep us, well, busy and distracted. 🙂 It’s time to change that.

There’s a lot of buzz going around about creating a vision board! (Oprah, Ellen Degeneres, and Katy Perry all swear by them!). I’ve led small intimate workshops for a few and large conference workshops for over 70 attendees. Every time, people walk away excited and inspired! Isn’t that how you want to start your year?

In this workshop, I share my unique process for making your Vision Board more powerful. I will also share a daily practice to keep actively manifesting your dreams for your life!

Seeing your vision board daily aligns you with the outcomes you most want to attract.

I combine my experience as an organizer, artist-designer, and productivity expert to help you gain clarity, tap into your creativity, and formulate your vision.

“Simply put, Heather’s vision board workshop is nourishment for one’s mind + soul. Her gentle guidance encourages mindfulness through both contemplative art and contemplative movement. It’s the type of activity that can enrich your life.”

Geralin Thomas, Metropolitan Organizing, LLC
Author of From Hoarding to Hope: Understanding People Who Hoard and How to Help Them and Decluttering Your Home: Tips, Techniques and Trade Secrets

Here is your chance to discover a creative visualization tool for setting intentions that is hands-on, interactive, powerful, and FUN!

It can be refreshing to get out of our thinking mind and into our creative body by using our hands and imaginations. By asking ourselves what we want things to look like and how we want to FEEL, we embrace and tap into our creative connection with the universe, god…whatever that means to each of us. Seeing your vision board daily aligns your brain with the outcomes you most want to attract. (Oprah, Ellen Degeneres, and Katy Perry all swear by Vision Boards!)

Yes, there is a process to make your Vision Board more powerful! So why doesn’t everyone create Vision Boards?

In my experience as a creative Organizer, Productivity Coach & Artist, most of us never make the time. We let our busy, distracted lives keep us busy and distracted. 🙂

It’s time to change that; click here to register.

You will leave each workshop with a Vision Board of your creation that will become a powerful touchstone to bring you back to your intentions when you feel off course or unclear.

I would LOVE for you to join me for my upcoming In-Person Vision Board Workshop!

NEW DATE Friday, January 13th, 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM, EST

$75 tickets are available through January 13th at 1:30 PM (ET)
Limited to 10 people; register soon!

Please register, share with a friend and gather your vision board materials early!

Join me for my next In-Person Vision-Board Workshop Friday, January 13th, 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM, EST

This evening immersion allows you to focus on your authentic life, core clarity, and ideal outcomes. If you know a friend who’s also ready to jump into the life they envision, please send this to them! Spots are limited so register now!

I’m also available to host private vision board gatherings in your home or business, don’t hesitate to contact me for more details, and I’ll send you all the information!

Email info@hkpowerstudio.com to get information about upcoming workshops.

Year-Ahead Planning Resources

December 14, 2019 by Heather Filed Under: Organize, Paper management, Tips & Resources, Uncategorized 2 Comments

“Where I’m headed is a direct result of the ideas, goals, intentions and plans I create space for in my life.” -Heather K. Powers

I’ve come to love a few tools that I use over and over routinely. I’m including a round up of them below along with some new tools! Planning begins for me by selecting a planner. I went back to paper a few years ago. I’ve used quite a few planners over the years, including the Franklin Covey system, Filofax, Danielle La Port, and more!

Schedule time for an end-of-year review and year ahead planning in the last weeks of the year.

I try to keep it simple and don’t go all out Bullet Journal. I use a Moleskin planner and customize it. This includes categories and intentions, goals, tasks, and events on a daily/weekly basis. My regular habit of Journaling helps me get a lot of ideas out of my head and on paper. During that process I can move more concrete ideas to my planner. This works for me. I’m always re-evaluating and making small adjustments. Overall, I’m happy with this and can easily go back through my year to see my accomplishments. If you’re searching for some great planning tools, the first few below are ones I’ve personally used and love! The last couple are new additions. But I deeply trust the sources and can recommend them with full confidence you will find them helpful!

Susannah Conway guides us to reflect on your year in Photo’s (on Instagram) with December daily prompts. She has a beautiful tool called “Unravel your year”
The word of the year is a process that both Christine Kane and Susannah Conway share tools for discovering. I’ll be revealing mine early next year.
Ali Edwards shares beautiful tools for her One Little Word discovery. She also offers a year-long creative exploration you can join. She’s one of the first people I discovered the word of the year with!
Check out this free toolkit from Do What You Love
Moleskine Planners are still my favorite. Although I’ve tried digital planners and other newer planners, I keep going back to this great staple. I love the flexibility, lovely colors various sizes, and layouts.
Danielle Laporte offers her free Soulful Habit Tracker. She also sells a gorgeous planner and other great tools for inspiration for planning. I’m a long time reader and fan of Danielle’s!
Vision boards! This is such a fun project/tool for creating a visionary map of what you want to create in your new year. It’s a practice I began about 7 years ago and I’ve continued to make them and teach them almost every year! Join me for my next workshop here.

How do you do year ahead planning and reflect on your accomplishments? I’d love to hear your favorite tools and routines in the comments below! I know there are a lot of options out there so I’m only sharing what I know, trust, and have seen results from:) Happy, almost, New Year!

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by CreativelyOrganizedSpacesWhen we have functional systems in place we are more successful, productive and free to express our creativity and follow our dreams! For some of us, balancing creativity and business can feel overwhelming. Sometimes we don’t know where to begin, other times we have a vision but just don’t have the time or resources to make it happen! That’s where we can help!

Below are SOME of the Art Organizing & Design Services we offer to support you in living your most successful, productive and creative life! We can also create customized solutions based on your individual or business needs.

We love to work with…

Artists, Art Collectors, Art Galleries, Historians, Educators and others in the Academic Art and Business world who need assistance with organizing systems and project management. Heather is inspired by fellow creative community influencers and connectors and is always working to give back to the creative community.

Art/collection archiving:: Organize and Archive your most cherished memories and legacy collectibles (art, fine crafts, antiques and more). We can get you started with with an archive system (Artwork Archive or others) or we can create a customized system for you.
Craft/art studio organization:: Create a space to do what you love, whether it’s a hobby or your profession!
Inventory systems for risk management:: Don’t wait until it’s too late! Let us help you create a comprehensive collections archive and inventory system, compatible with your insurance and individual needs.
Space planning or re-design:: Let me help you design a space that’s more functional and beautiful.
Product sourcing::looking for products to meet your functional and aesthetic needs? I can help you find the perfect solutions.

Heather’s background in Global Textile Design has given her over 15 years direct experience with custom design and design/project management. Your consultation and work with us will be confidential and professionally managed. Through her one on one services and workshops, she hopes to both inspire and teach others to use their hands and create from their hearts. For more information on Heather’s design background see this design page.

Team building Vision Board workshops::Heather has used vision boards aka mood boards for over 20 years and has studied with Coach and Author Christine Kane to facilitate & guide you through the process of using vision boards to establish your goals and see them manifest amazing results in your life! Learn more here.
Indigo & Textile workshops:: Using her SCAD background and knowledge of textiles and dye process, Heather teaches students how to use indigo and other textile techniques to transform ordinary textiles into extraordinary works of art for everyday fashion and home use.

how does this work?

Creatively organized and functional spaces are easy to maintain when we learn skills to eliminate clutter, reclaim space and create systems to maintain our home and business life.

We are committed to engage in this from process from the head and heart to understand your specific needs and concerns. Together we can make amazing transformations, you deserve nothing less! Ready to get started?

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