It’s easy to make New Year’s resolutions but tough to keep them. According to Psychology Today, the average American abandons New Year intentions within six weeks of the beginning of the year. This year, instead of vowing to do better, I’m reimagining a new vision board for the new year.

I haven’t read Rhonda Bryne’s book The Secret (it came out in 2006), but the idea of the best-seller revolves around the law of attraction. Online sources tell Russian occultist Helena Blavatsky first used the term “law of attraction”  in print in 1877. The idea is by focusing on the positive results; you can manifest those same thoughts in real life. I like to think I’m doing that with my vision board.  (more…)