Lindsay: 0:07

Welcome.

Ben: 0:07

Welcome, lindsay just said to me you're introducing right and I was like okay and then you paused and didn't say anything. I did, I did. Well, you know, we're getting more professional.

Lindsay: 0:16

It's episode 45 we are. We've got our shit tied down.

Ben: 0:20

Yeah, as you can tell by the intro of that.

Lindsay: 0:22

Cut the noise well, that's simplified. The noise Well, that's simplified. I'm Ben. This is Lindsay.

Ben: 0:27

Welcome. Welcome to our podcast episode, you know.

Lindsay: 0:31

I've been thinking about it anyway, like I just like the more informal approach and I think, from what I've heard, people do as well. Right, I mean, it's just a conversation. That's what's going on here.

Ben: 0:41

I hope it's what's going on, and I do think so because we get a lot of feedback from people that it's like it just feels like we're sitting in your kitchen, you know, having a conversation with you, and so we are like this goofy stupid sometimes mess up, sometimes want you know. I think the thing is like.

Lindsay: 0:56

I mean, we have enough people telling us what to do right, so we want a conversation. Yeah, and, and this is like, these are our observations, stories we can share and things we've learned along the way. So why would that feel like anything other than you guys joining us for a coffee or a tea?

Ben: 1:12

Yeah, and I think, if anybody knows either better I individually or together like that's just what you get. You get silliness, you get laughs, you get stupid sometimes.

Ben: 1:24

And sometimes serious, very, very serious. You should see his face. It's not very serious, but I think that's what makes it fun though, because, you know, even though sometimes we do come in with the hard hitting, you know truce, or we talk about things that are very serious, it's not in our nature to be super serious people ever, so I think that that's what makes it really fun, and I think that's the thing about this whole kind of health journey as well.

Lindsay: 1:50

Like we, we've been talking about this a lot because obviously it's the beginning of 2025 and people are looking at what they want to try and accomplish over the course.

Ben: 1:59

They're being bombarded.

Lindsay: 2:01

That was come back to. You know, like we've got to find a way to eat that we love. It gets us the results we're looking for, right? Yeah, we've got to find a way to move our body that we enjoy, because not only will it help us get the results. It also will give us joy, and if we're joyful and actually get something from movement or the food we eat, then we're just going to stick to it.

Ben: 2:22

Yeah, on the food we eat, then we're just going to stick to it. Yeah, and we're going to be happy, because there's nothing worse than going after your goals and being miserable because you are starving or you hate going running or whatever it is.

Lindsay: 2:32

There's no joy in that whatsoever cringe when you use running I think, if we did an audit of all of the podcasts we've ever done.

Ben: 2:40

You've mentioned running more than I have I think so, but you, but you know why. It's because people, for whatever reason, feel like that's the pinnacle of health, and they often say to me I actually had two clients say to me this week that I'm never going to run. And my answer is always of course you're not. If you don't like it, why would you ever think that you have to?

Lindsay: 2:58

Running is a ridiculous endeavor.

Ben: 3:00

Okay, it is ridiculous, and even if you love it, that's one thing which Ben does, but if you don't, don't do it, it's like you're not eating mushrooms if you hate mushrooms, like it's just. It's this idea that we're being told we have to do these things in order to right. In order to be healthy, you have to run. In order to be fit, you have to no, it's what works best for you. In order to be healthy, healthy, you have to eat liver. Oh god, if anybody saw ben's facebook the other day, we have this order that we put in for and I actually have a pretty reoccurring order that I put in for groceries and they decided to replace our beautiful, lovely, absolutely delicious era chair a steak with what?

Lindsay: 3:44

it was sliced beef liver.

Ben: 3:46

Sliced beef liver. And just remember, we live in Mexico, so it came in Spanish and I was just like, oh, whatever, we didn't even translate it because I've never seen liver before.

Lindsay: 3:55

in Spanish I'd never actually learned or come across that word. I don't really use it that often why? So I was like oh it's some form of comparable meat I knew was beef to be fair, it was really really red and bloody looking.

Ben: 4:08

It was like almost like purpley.

Lindsay: 4:09

It was gross, almost like a, an organ I had already.

Ben: 4:13

I had already been like no, I'm out, before I knew what it was so I'm not all about, and this is actually.

Lindsay: 4:18

This can kind of tie it to it. I once I found out that it was uh liver, I just decided well, I'm to try it, because I know from like 30 plus years ago, I don't like liver, I don't like kidneys, I don't like any organ meats at all, see, and I, on the other hand, decided right away that I was not going to try it, and that's okay as well.

Ben: 4:37

So I decided to try it, I prepared it and all of those things and just learned that it's yeah, it's still the same.

Lindsay: 4:43

I absolutely despise it.

Ben: 4:45

The dogs ate well.

Lindsay: 4:46

The dogs ate like queens.

Ben: 4:47

Yes, and even our new stray dog outside had so much liver.

Lindsay: 4:52

Oh, my God. But I guess the point is, you know, give things a go and if you have a perception, maybe it's not true, but in the case of liver it is very much true, it is.

Ben: 5:00

I mean a lot of things with liver. I mean a lot of things about liver.

Lindsay: 5:02

In actual fact, I've spent too much time talking about it.

Ben: 5:05

Yeah, I was going to say yeah, I've heard him talk about it with almost every client. We've talked about it with my daughter's friend because she was here and she tried it too.

Lindsay: 5:15

And then almost vomited on the floor.

Ben: 5:17

just so we're clear Every single one of my clients has asked me about it, but I think I just imposed it on them. So we're not talking about liver today. Guys, this is, this is a sidetrack that we got on, but what we are talking, just thinking about the liver. It smelled the kitchen so bad too. It was so gross, and then the girls were like ew it's got like legs.

Lindsay: 5:35

Before we change the subject, the consensus I'm getting is from my little facebook post is the majority of people don't like organ meats right, that's.

Ben: 5:44

That's that's they're so good for you. But again coming back to what we said just because they're good for you doesn't mean you have to eat them.

Lindsay: 5:52

Absolutely Okay. What?

Ben: 5:54

are we talking about today? So we're talking about the power of vision boards. Okay, and why we're talking about that is because this is something that I have done with my clients myself. I've taught workshops. I feel like vision boards are something that are really, really valuable.

Lindsay: 6:09

Back up a moment. You know what a vision board is.

Ben: 6:12

Yes.

Lindsay: 6:12

I know what a vision board is Right. A lot of people might have an idea of what it is. But can you, before we go into this, because you know when you get excited, you talk fast. I love it. So the word you use is vision boards.

Ben: 6:24

I don't think it was that fast, but okay. So a vision board, if you don't know, or just from a plain perspective, is taking images and putting it somewhere. So back in the day, back in my day, hold on, just listen, back in my day, we used to cut pictures out of magazines and paste them onto a bulletin board or a piece of paper. That's why I mean by putting them somewhere. In more recent years, in the last kind of five to 10 years, I would say I do it more digitally. So I do it in Canva, which is just a form that creates pictures and you take things that you're looking at accomplishing for 2025, things that are there for you to help support and motivate you.

Lindsay: 7:08

So just stop there for a moment. So basically the objective, the purpose of spending what like an hour 45 minutes.

Ben: 7:15

I mean, it doesn't even have to be, it can be longer. So what do I get from this exercise?

Lindsay: 7:18

Because I would imagine there's a lot of people, and you can pull me up on this if this isn't correct. There's a lot of people, and you can pull me up on this if this isn't correct.

Ben: 7:30

There's a lot of people that look and say what a pointless exercise. Yes, there's also a lot of people that probably turn around and say I've done that before and nothing came of it. It's, it's okay, so, okay, let's. Let's talk to science for a second. Okay, so again, if you're not into science, um, I'm sorry, just bear with me on this, but I actually find it really, really interesting. So, the science behind a vision board, the very first one and you may have heard me talk about this in the past, you may not have is called your ras. Okay, your ras again. Remember, we're getting scientific key for a second here.

Ben: 7:54

So that is your reticular activating system. Okay, that's. So. That is basically the bouncer in your brain. Okay, so, if you, so, if you imagine you go into a club and there's a bouncer at the at the club and he's saying you can come in, you can't come in. You can come in, you can't come in. Okay, I don't know when the last time I was at a club, that's probably not a good analogy, but I'm thinking when was the last?

Ben: 8:14

but everybody understands the concept if not a tsa agent. Okay, good, a tsa agent. They say you're allowed to come in, you're not allowed to come in whatever. So the, the, the res of the brain, is what allows information to come in. So, for example, our brain and our, our environment, hundreds of thousands of trigabytes a day. So all of that can't come into our brain trigabytes.

Lindsay: 8:37

Was that a lindseyism or was that like just a lot of information, a lot of?

Ben: 8:41

information bigger than a gigabyte. That's right, right, right. Terabyte. You know what I meant. It's close enough. I actually read somewhere the other day that whatever the next level of a terabyte is is something I've never heard of before.

Lindsay: 8:54

This is infinite.

Ben: 8:56

No, whatever the word. Anyways, it doesn't matter. So, so many Trigabyte, right? Okay, what is it? A terabyte? A terabyte. So we get all of this information around us, whether it's looking at social media, whether it's our environment around us.

Lindsay: 9:11

News, figures, colors, the wind, everything Stimulus.

Ben: 9:14

Our brain can't take that all in. It can filter it, it can try to figure out what's the most important of it, and that's what the RES is right.

Lindsay: 9:21

So of it, and that's what the RES is right so the TSA agent, the bouncer, so what does it do? Does it just decide what's important to you?

Ben: 9:30

Exactly. There's four things that make it make make the list. The first one is your name. You'll always hear it if you ever feel like somebody said your name and you're like what? And it's funny because we always laugh here in, in Spanish, in Mexico, uh, people say ven a lot, which is like let's go come, let's do it, and Ben's always like what.

Ben: 9:44

It's close enough. So your name is the first one. The second one is, if you feel like you're in danger, you know that kind of feeling in that pit of your stomach, that's your brain doing it. Uh, sexual innuendos, sexual attraction, that's coming in. And then the fourth one, which is the most important one, is what it thinks is important to you.

Lindsay: 10:03

So just, you just said something that I was going to ask you that question. You said what it thinks.

Ben: 10:09

Yes, so your RAS is the it, but you are the driver.

Lindsay: 10:14

So do you tell your RAS what's important to you?

Ben: 10:16

Exactly so if you were like I don't know, I don't believe this, lindsay, anybody who has ever gone to go buy a new car and they walk into the dealership and they look at the absolute gorgeous beauty of the 4Runner Toyota that is gray in color and charcoal. This is Ben's favorite car that we've ever owned. So when you walk out and you haven't bought said car, or even if you have, you're going to notice very quickly how many charcoal gray forerunners are on the road.

Lindsay: 10:46

So you're like opening up that window.

Ben: 10:47

You are opening it up because your brain now knows that a forerunner charcoal Toyota is something that's important to you, right? Okay, so that's a really brief. So how does that tie into a vision board? Okay, so, so we create the vision board because we're specifically looking at our goals for 2025 in this case. So the RES will help us notice those opportunities and those resources around us once they know it's important.

Lindsay: 11:10

We have to call it out first.

Ben: 11:11

Okay, so I'm just saying. The science first is that once you have put into place your vision board, your RAS now knows that that's important.

Lindsay: 11:21

So basically, it's bringing attention to the things that you want to prioritize.

Ben: 11:24

Yes. So if you have a picture of a trail run on your vision board, your RAS is now like oh, this is important to them. I'm going to show them evidence of trail running, trail running shoes you know you might get, if you're listening to this and your phone is close by you might get advertisements now of trail runners.

Lindsay: 11:42

I'd just like to point out Lindsay mentioned running again there several times.

Ben: 11:46

Trail running is my thing too, though I'm allowed to say that. I'm allowed to say that, okay. So the other thing that a vision board is really, really important and helps with is it strengthens our neural pathways. So visualization is basically looking at things and letting it come into our brain again.

Lindsay: 12:03

So, for example, if you are, you know, looking at something and maybe it's a vacation, it's a beach holiday, and you have a beach holiday on your vision board, it's going to strengthen the neurons that, the neurons that say beach is important, beach is exciting I love that because I mean, when you look at visualization, right like it's so mainstream now in sports, like if if anybody follows athletics or football or soccer or any of these sports where there's repetitive things that go on penalty kicks or conversions or whatever like these athletes are the 100-meter sprint, they're visualizing the result that they're looking to achieve, not the day of when they're sat in front of the ball waiting for it. They've been doing that for six months. What is it going to feel like when I cross the line? What is it going to feel like when I win the race? What is it going to feel like when I win the race? What is it going to feel like?

Lindsay: 12:54

So visualization is is science right, it's not periphery science anymore.

Ben: 13:00

No, and so if you imagine it's like a mental rehearsal so, for example, if you are very interested in um, climbing a mountain, okay, and climbing a mountain is Ben's like, hands up, yes, visualizing what it's like to climb the mountain, take the steps. In Ben's case, you don't lose your oxygen level because it's so high up there. Feel what it's going to feel like when you are struggling to take one step at a time. That mental rehearsal is actually going to build confidence and familiarity with those goals, which makes it easier for when, the when it actually happens, the day of.

Lindsay: 13:36

What's interesting about visualization, though? It's not just the result right, it's the steps.

Ben: 13:40

Right, you're also visualizing the steps.

Lindsay: 13:43

And I think that's really important when we kind of go further with this whole vision board piece right.

Ben: 13:47

Yes, absolutely, cause this is the other thing that it does and again we're still on the science based things is that it increases your motivation and focus. Ok, so, if we're coming back to visualizing the outcome, we're also visualizing the steps it takes to take to get to that outcome, and so those feel good neurotransmitters that boost us, the motivation, that boosts us, the encouragement. That's the vision board staring back at you. The vision board staring back at you and you're, you're sitting there, and now you're thinking about sitting on the beach with your bathing suit on you know, the sun on your body, enjoying the beautiful time, maybe reading your book, all of those things, and just for clear that right there is like, ah, that's how I feel as soon as I say it. That's what I'm talking about, about increasing that focus and motivation you look like you got a little bit teary then Not teary, but I definitely that's yes.

Lindsay: 14:35

I think it's important to point out. Then, just to kind of jump in and I know you've got some things to talk about still but you know we're very much focused on wellness, health, fitness, food, mindset, those sorts of things. If you've been listening to this, you know that, right, like that's what we talk about all the time. But I mindset those sorts of things. If you've been listening to this, you know that, right, like that's what we talk about all the time. But I think it's really important is when we talk about vision boards in particular. We can, definitely you could build a health vision board that purely is based off what you want to try and accomplish, for sure, but like a lot of things we speak about, it's everything it's everything and I'm going to tell you a little story.

Ben: 15:08

So I would say nine, maybe 10 years ago now, I created a vision board. Doing a vision board, it was actually a virtual vision board workshop. I got everybody to bring their own magazines and their paper and all that stuff and we sat on Zoom Remember I've been doing this a long time, well before COVID kind of thing and we created our vision boards. Now I actually went a step further, because I was the host and I was making it big and I went to like Michael's, which is that store where you buy all the crafts and stuff, and I got stickers and I got all of this stuff. Anyways, beautiful vision board, and right in the center of it, first of all, there was a picture of me, because vision is important to connect for yourself, and the second thing and I have a picture of this was a massive sticker that said Mexico.

Ben: 15:52

It said Mexico.

Lindsay: 15:54

Dang, it said Mexico, I've been manipulated.

Ben: 16:00

I had this vision board in my office space for probably three years before we even made this move to Mexico. But guess what? Every time I looked at it and I saw that big sticker and that beautiful flag, I was like Mexico.

Lindsay: 16:08

So obviously there's no hard and fast rules to this in terms of timelines right it's putting your energy and intention on something, and calling it out Like this is important to me and I want to put my energy behind it.

Ben: 16:18

So in some respects it took two years for that to manifest Totally, and I use the word manifest or you, you know, manifestation is a lot of it's about taking the action and the steps I was going to say.

Ben: 16:29

That is something that we definitely need to make sure that people are aware of. Right it's. You know, it's funny. When the secret, the movie, the book, all of that first came out, this idea was I just need to think it and it will happen. Right? Or in what dreams may come, is that movie was like build it and they will come. That's actually not true and I hate to say that. It's part of the process. But if you don't take some action, steps right. If somebody says, oh, I tried building my vision board and it didn't work, well, it's not that the vision board necessarily didn't work, but maybe part of what you were doing wasn't taking the right action it's like one percent.

Lindsay: 17:01

99 percent comes from the action I mean, we've seen that as well, I mean we we've heard in the past that we've certainly heard more recently as well somebody had called out on social media. They had pretty much said I did a vision board last year and it didn't work right and I think you have to keep in mind too.

Ben: 17:16

I mean, I do a vision board. We actually do one as a family every, every year and individually individually and a family and I used to always laugh because years ago again, my daughters put a vision board and individually they both put two dogs on their vision board and I was like, ah, there is no way we are getting another dog. Yeah, we have three now.

Lindsay: 17:34

So I mean, it's, it is, it happens, but you know, what I love, though, actually going back to that and obviously this is kind of taking us off track a bit, which which I love to do and I'm very good at. So what I wanted to say about that is what's really cool about that exercise, where we do it individually and then do one as a family is when the girls do theirs often I'm a little surprised.

Ben: 17:54

Yeah, it's really eye-opening.

Lindsay: 17:56

I didn't know that was important to you right, so it's really interesting in terms of just reconnecting you to well, to maybe what's important to you. Like you know, back in the day I was like what the hell is this mexico?

Ben: 18:08

really you were and you should put it on your vision board as well, but I mean that's Hint, hint, nudge, nudge.

Lindsay: 18:14

That's like the idea is. If nothing else, it gives you clarity on what's important to other people in your direct circle and also sitting down and figuring out what's important to you, yeah, and I think it's important.

Ben: 18:26

So, you know, having a successful vision board, there's multiple things, right? Not random pictures of just being like well, I think I should have money on my you know vision board or I think I should have you know a salad on my vision board.

Lindsay: 18:39

It's not random things, it's things that actually mean something to you To you, because often you know, for example, we'll say to the kids when they do this oh Lindsay, oh myself, what does that represent?

Ben: 18:49

Yeah, what does that even mean?

Lindsay: 18:50

so it's like whatever it's a symbol, for example um, it doesn't matter what it represents to anybody but you, but you will be able to turn around and say, oh, that represents blah, blah, blah and this is what it is right and it's like very clear to you.

Ben: 19:05

That's the trigger right for that aspect yeah, years ago again, this is just before we, just just after we got, got to Mexico, I think um, the girls would have been only eight and 10 at the time and and Maddie had put a beautiful white smile, perfect teeth, and you know, not that I had never thought about braces for her before, but it was like when we sat down and talked about it she's like, yeah, I can't wait to get my braces on and have, you know, my teeth whitened and all these things and all these things, and it is something that you know.

Ben: 19:32

We've been here almost seven years now and her braces came off last year and you know there's still work in progress for that. But the thing with that is that with vision boards and with your why and with your goals, you can't just do it and forget about it, right? So one of the things that we talk a lot about and, as I said, for me, mine's on my phone and it's my screen, not my screen, my backdrop for my computer. So every time I'm changing tabs or doing whatever, boom, it's right there in my face. Because the whole idea think back to the RES, think back about motivation and happy neurons in our head is that we have to be able to see it, for us to be motivated and challenged and excited about it.

Lindsay: 20:09

We have to be able to know it as well as an even begin step and, excited about it, we have to be able to know it as well as an even begin step Because often you know this is a really great exercise in driving out what it is. You want to try and focus on Right.

Ben: 20:18

A lot of people are like.

Lindsay: 20:19

I don't know.

Ben: 20:20

Right.

Lindsay: 20:20

That's the first step. Well, how are you going to move something forward that you haven't identified as important to you? And then, once you have identified it is important to you, how do you then connect it to the steps we're talking about?

Ben: 20:34

now, right and and just so you guys are clear, go back and listen to a few of our most recent podcasts, probably in the last four weeks, because one we did uh, how do you decide what you want to do for the whole year? We backtracked, we talked about that. We also talked about how new year's resolutions aren't great and how we can change that. So, so when you, when you get to this place I'm hoping that you've already listened to the other episodes and you're like, oh my gosh, okay, this is what I want and this is what I want to accomplish. And now, once I have that, how do I make it a visual?

Lindsay: 21:02

Yeah, there's no coincidence, like just in observing clients that you and I have both worked with over the years the clients that are most successful, the clients that accomplish their goals and objectives, have a vision.

Ben: 21:15

Have a vision and it's doable daily and it's clear.

Lindsay: 21:19

Yeah, and it's very clear and they're connected to it. And I think one of the things I love about a vision board, even over goals, is that if you mount it somewhere like I often take a photo of mine and then I actually put it on my screensaver of my phone or the screensaver of my computer and it means that every day when I click on my computer, I'm looking at it, Because what happens with goals that are written down sometimes is they get put in a drawer or they get lost in a book.

Lindsay: 21:45

Somewhere or they get lost somewhere and you're not connected to it. So I'll often say to people what are your goals? It so I'll often say to people what are your goals? Like I know what their goals are, but what are they? And they can't even tell me their own goals clearly and kind of succinctly. So if you can't tell me that, how are you working on that on a day-to-day basis, whereas people have a vision and have done a vision board. It's more visual and it's mounted on their phone or their laptop or whatever. They're more connected to it because they're seeing it regularly, and I think even that simple step alone changes the game a little bit changes the game for sure.

Ben: 22:17

Well, and so I. I've told you that for the last 10-15 years, I've done these workshops, I've done this. I know the power of this. I am somebody who talks about it on a regular basis.

Lindsay: 22:26

This year, I did something different would you, just before you, tell us what that is? Do you say you're passionate?

Ben: 22:35

no, not at all. At the very beginning of this podcast he's like I know you're excited, I know you're passionate. You just need to slow them down. Those of you who know me again know when I get excited.

Lindsay: 22:47

It's like yes, I'm very passionate not quite this bad bad, but you know, early 2025, Lindsay handed me my vision board.

Ben: 22:55

No, I never did that. However, this year I did something a little bit different.

Lindsay: 23:01

Can I just say I have not done a vision board this year.

Ben: 23:04

I know we need to talk about that. Actually, maybe you need to come to the workshop. What workshop? So this year I did something different. I want to. I want to tell you how important this is, because I literally cannot tell you and I can't even express to you how powerful this change has been. I'm going to, I'm going to try and, if you can, if you could see me right now, I'm just like all smiles, I'm super pumped.

Ben: 23:31

So, love it or hate it, I used an AI tool that has created the most powerful vision board that I have ever done in my entire life.

Lindsay: 23:41

Why is that?

Ben: 23:42

So let me just first tell you what it does. So it takes me as an individual, as an image, and I can input it into every single one of my vision board dreams and I can put it on my vision board.

Lindsay: 23:56

Give me an example of one.

Ben: 23:57

Okay, so one of my ultimate goals for 2025 is to lead a retreat where I am taking some beautiful, amazing women up a mountain. Okay, I can put a mountain, I can put me climbing, I can put all those things. I put random retreat photos on my vision board or random photos of mountains. Or random photos of mountains. What I did is I created myself and I brought that dream to life.

Lindsay: 24:22

So basically in a photo, right In a photo.

Ben: 24:25

So now my vision board is stacked with me doing the things that I want to accomplish. So I am on a beach in Spain, I am on a retreat, I am in front of a group of people leading a conference. I have put myself in a position of the body that I want. Now I'm going to talk about that at my workshop a little bit more, but let me just tell you why it's so positive, powerful. Are you a little emotional right now? Oh, I am telling you that it is the most powerful thing.

Ben: 24:55

So, as Ben said, my vision board is on my computer, which means every day, multiple thousands of times a day, I see this vision board and I see myself looking back at me doing the things that I want to accomplish. So it's not even that I'm saying I want to accomplish. It's already been done on my vision board. I am leading the retreat, I have goosebumps I mean you can see me, I am so excited about this. I am leading the retreats, I am on the beach, I am doing those things, and it's no longer just my RES saying, oh, this is important to her, it's my body and my brain saying this is already accomplished so let me break it down from what I understand so that, like everyone listening can understand is the power is in the fact that it's putting you in those locations, in those positions not just not just like you, a generic image or something that relates, but it's actually you physically in a photo, putting yourself in a place that you want to get to in 2025.

Ben: 25:55

Yes.

Lindsay: 25:56

And it's. I mean, if you guys have seen AI right now, it's super powerful, Like the images. I don't want to kind of give the ins and outs too much because it's kind of irrelevant, but you basically load the AI generator with like 30 photos of you and it basically compiles photos that are clearly you, so it's not like generating kind of soulless AI. This is you, just you, in different places, so it puts you in those places. So now, when you're focusing and visualizing, it's an aid yeah, so let me.

Ben: 26:28

Let me give you a really easy example to understand. Okay, so let's say on my vision board and this is not me, by the way at all, I could give a shit about cars, but let's say my dream car was a white porsche with red interior. Okay, so on my vision board I have a white porsche with a red interior. And every time I look at the vision board I'm like oh, white p, white Porsche, red interior.

Lindsay: 26:47

Does anyone dream a white Porsche though? Like a Porsche for sure, but a white one yes.

Ben: 26:51

Actually, I'm using this as an example because it's true. Okay so, white Porsche, red interior I see it on my vision board. My RAS knows it's important. I see Porsches around Now. I take my AI and I put myself sitting on the top of the white Porsche with a huge smile on my face. And instead of just a white Porsche with red interior, I see myself sitting on the Porsche with a huge smile on my face, and it's not just I'm going to, it's I already have.

Lindsay: 27:18

So give me an example. I mean that's a good example. But like, let's talk some health specific examples, like what kind of things could we capture on there?

Ben: 27:26

Okay, so an, and you're gonna laugh at me because I'm coming back to running. Well, so let's say, your goal was to run a 5k.

Ben: 27:35

Okay, so we put on our vision board to walk a fire okay, so let's walk a fire, it doesn't even matter, it's just moving your body for 5k and that's something that you want to do. So, again, I could put on the the race I wanted to do name of it. I could put on running shoes. I could put on a person I wanted to do name of it. I could put on running shoes. I could put on a person running a race.

Lindsay: 27:52

These are generic examples.

Ben: 27:53

This is I cut it out on a vision board, out of a magazine, or I used Canva. Now I'm going to place myself at the finish line with a medal around my neck and a huge smile on my face saying that I have finished this. So the power of seeing myself at the finish line with the metal around my neck versus a pair of running shoes, it's massive. It's massive. So it has come to this, where I've created this vision board for myself and I've started talking to my clients about it. And then it was like I have to tell the world about this, because I am so passionate about vision boards already, and now I've taken, say, a 10 out of 10 to a hundred out of 10 of how powerful this thing is, and Ben was saying that I'm pretty emotional about it.

Ben: 28:41

It is because I see myself looking back at me every time I open my computer and I'm basically saying to myself you've already got this, you've done this already. And then visualization, manifestation, all those things that we didn't even cover when it comes to a vision board, is being set into my head, into motion. It's not. It's basically taking your dreams and bringing them to life very cool, very cool, I mean amazing you can probably hear that this is passionate, so I have a question.

Ben: 29:08

You are going to be running a workshop on this yes, so so just give us the high level on the workshop in terms of the dates okay and how people register okay, so the date is next thursday if you're listening to this real time, january 16th, at 5 pm central, 6 pm eastern how long is it going to take?

Lindsay: 29:24

it's an hour workshop okay, so I have a question for you. I've never done a vision board before, but I'm liking this idea. Yes, could I show up and do it with a magazine, of course. Could I show up and do it with generic pictures from the internet? You could and can I show up and obviously really harness the power and do it?

Ben: 29:45

I'm never going to take away the power of vision board because, really, when you think about it, this.

Lindsay: 29:49

This thing you're doing is next level awesome. Next level awesome, but there's also power in the others as well.

Ben: 29:55

Right, so, and that's what I'm saying, I'm just thinking, if someone said this sounds so amazing, but I'm technically just just not not into it. What the hell is Canva? Absolutely, absolutely. So again it. You can come, you can learn, you can do a paper cut of. You know, go to the Goodwill and buy a bunch of magazines. That's how we used to do it. You can do that Absolutely, because I know the power of a vision board.

Lindsay: 30:17

I know, realistically, the idea is you want people to jump in this with both feet, absolutely.

Ben: 30:33

That's where the AI tool. I'm going to show you how to work with it and then I'm going to show you how you can put it into a vision board, so it's not just you can come and do it, but you also can learn, because I'm recording it. You can rewatch it, check it, try it again.

Lindsay: 30:47

I think it's super important just to call out. We always say this as well, but you know, we just happen to be in January.

Ben: 30:51

It happens to be a natural time to do it, but if you listen to this in July or August like there's, there's all, today is always a good day to do this totally, and I mean, the one thing I love about this AI tool that I that I'm going to talk about too, is that once you've trained and activated what we're talking about doing, you can change and add anything. So, for example, if one of your goals was to, you know, take photographs in Venice next summer, and you didn't even realize it, you could literally just go into that tool, update, you know, photographs Venice, and up it pops, so it becomes your dream for ever.

Lindsay: 31:29

You can do it anytime july, january, december at any time, right? I mean, like we already called out, that lindsey had been. I think he'd been planning mexico for longer than two years, but maybe that's the first time I hit the vision board yeah, absolutely, but I think, uh, like that's the idea is it's not like magic, you have to put the work in, but it allows you to focus the mind and bring attention to that thing that you've called out as being important.

Lindsay: 31:50

That's the power, and then this next piece is what Lindsay is talking about, and you do need to register to make sure that, because I only have 100 seats and it's already halfway sold out.

Ben: 32:11

So it is going to be amazing. And so I always say, like, if you haven't had any AI experience, come and check it out. See what it's all about. If you have lots of AI experience, come and check it out, because it's amazing. What's the workshop named? It is called AI Vision Board. Who the hell is that? It's called AI Vision Board? It's so fancy. It's so fancy. But anyways, we will put the registration link in the show notes. Take a look at that. Also, it will be all over my social media and Ben's social media. You can take a look there. But just know that if you can't come live which a lot of people have said, I can't make it, I can't make it. That's fine. The recording will be out and ready until the end of January, so you can always go back and rewatch it and figure it out if you want to do this yourself.

Ben: 32:49

Or if you just want to see me do it cool. That's fine too.

Lindsay: 32:52

Are you going to do one?

Ben: 32:53

I'm going to do another one. Yes, you are Okay.

Lindsay: 32:56

So we will do two things. First of all, I'll come back and edit this particular example of the podcast with the link to the video. So I'll do that. Once the video has taken place, we'll upload it here.

Ben: 33:11

Perfect.

Lindsay: 33:11

So if you're listening to this now, you know for the next what is it? Seven or eight days? It won't show up because we haven't done the event yet, right, but I will bring it back here as well, and then we'll also, if you miss it or you happen to be listening to this in six months time you can still send us a message.

Ben: 33:28

Yeah, just send us a message.

Lindsay: 33:29

Yeah, for sure, if it's not here for whatever reason it should be, or if you need some help, because I mean, as you can tell, I'm pretty excited about it. It doesn't matter, it's happening on a particular day, because this is something poor kids have been indoctrinated by ai um visions of their, I think generally like the the I mean they come out of their board, I think generally I mean they come out of their rooms or have themselves off their own. You know their own decision and have built these in Canva in previous years.

Ben: 33:58

I think both the kids haven't done it.

Lindsay: 33:59

This year have they.

Ben: 34:01

I think Gemma might have, but I'm not sure if Maddie's done because she just got back from Spain.

Ben: 34:05

Yeah, and that's why, you know, people often say to me you know, don't you have to have your vision board done at the beginning of the year? No, you actually don't. So if you're not listening to this real time, you can do it anytime. If you don't have a vision board today, you can. You can create one for next week. If you don't have a vision board in July, you can create one for the next day. It doesn't have to be the beginning of the month.

Ben: 34:23

You through your goals amazing all right, I'm done, I I could talk forever, yeah no, you know. No, yeah, of course. No, it's so nice actually, I mean it really is.

Lindsay: 34:31

I mean this. Lindsay's truly passionate about it and and if you spend any time with her or if you work with her as a client I've had any exposure to her you know she's no bullshit in the sense of this is legit this is legit me shaking excited like I'm a little dodgy right now come along and watch somebody get hyper excited for 60 minutes. To give you that lift, come along as well.

Ben: 34:53

Yeah, come and join. Come and join, anyways. As always, we appreciate you. Thank you. Share this with anyone who might be excited about vision boards, like I am or AI. We'd love to share the news and we will see you next week.

Lindsay: 35:06

Yes, we will Speak to you soon.

Ben: 35:07

Bye.