Back when I was creating commercials and infomercials, I used a storyboard as a layout.  The storyboard is also used in many video and film mediums, including movies and television.  It is simply a visual representation of a script.  (By the way, storyboards is the modern version of ancient languages.  Even in my mother’s native language of Japanese, the characters are taken from pictures.)  The Disney Company first used this method back in the 1930’s.  If you were to look at storyboards, there is a similarity to a cartoon strip or comic book.  In a sense, a storyboard is like a large comic strip.

My friend, Andrea Arlington, brought forth an idea of using videos to help create a person’s best possible life that they want.  It’s looking into the future and creating a video of it.  I think it’s a great idea.  She’d add different phrases that would represent that future and the components it would take to get there.

Storyboarding that is essential in order to get it right.  Many people use vision boards of their dreams and goals.  Storyboarding goes beyond that.  You are in essence, creating your future, step-by-step.  Each panel represents one part of your story.  I had been working on a scrapbook idea that was similar.  I think the storyboarding process is even more powerful.

The story of your life is laid out in visual images.  You can even turn it into a movie.  Or simply keep it as a path of what you could be.  While things can and do change, you can make adjustments.  The storyboard is a visual representation of your life’s future script.  And as you move into each panel in your real life, you can see how powerful a storyboard can be.
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I came across a storyboard creator that will help you get into the flow of creating your own personal storyboard. It’s called Storyboard That and it seems pretty easy to use.

If you’ve read plenty of comic books and funnies growing up (or still do), then you simply take the same concept and apply it your own life in helping to reach your dreams. You don’t have to be a good artist either. What you need is a good imagination. Heck, draw stick figures. Create your own storyboard of the life you want and are willing to make it happen.

I wish you the best as you move forward. It’s your life.

Cheers,

Bob Choat
America’s #1 Mind-Body Transformation Expert and author of Mind Your Own Fitness