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Have you ever visualized your ideal life?

What if there was a way to turn those dreams into a visual representation, a constant reminder of your deepest desires and goals?

That's where a vision board comes in – a powerful tool that can help manifest your goals into reality. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the steps to create your very own vision board.

Since we use our phones everyday, we’ve decided to make our vision boards digital ones that can be seen daily on our mobile devices.

What is a Vision Board?

A vision board is a collage of images, quotes, and items that visually represent the goals and dreams you wish to achieve.

By placing these items on a board, you create a tangible representation of your aspirations, serving as a constant source of inspiration and motivation.

Although we will be creating our boards on our phones, you can create physical board as well to hang in your room, office or home.

Materials You’ll Need:

• A board (corkboard, poster board)

• Magazines, printed images, quotes

• Scissors and glue

• Markers, stickers, or other decorative items

• Personal photos or keepsakes

• A phone or tablet

Step 1: Reflect on Your Goals
Before you start cutting and pasting, take a moment to really reflect on what you want in different areas of your life.

Think about categories like career, personal growth, health, relationships, and hobbies. Write these down – it’s important to be clear about your intentions.

We’re picking 4 areas, but you can have as many or as few as you like.

Step 2: Gather Your Materials
Collect magazines, images, quotes that resonate with your goals.

We are doing the digital version, so we will be screenshotting images on our phone, taking pictures and saving them for our collage.

Don’t rush this process – the more aligned these items are with your true desires, the more powerful your vision board will be.

Step 3: Layout Your Vision Board
Start arranging your images and items on your board.

There’s no right or wrong way to do this – some people prefer a neat, organized layout, while others enjoy a more free-form style.

The key is to make it visually appealing and inspiring to you.

Step 4: Assemble Your Board
Once you’re happy with the layout, start gluing your items down.

Feel free to add personal touches with markers, stickers, or any other decorative elements that make your board feel unique.

We suggest using Instagram’s layout feature or any collage imaging app to create your digital vision board.

Step 5: Find the Perfect Spot for Your Board
Whether it’s in your bedroom, office, or a digital version on your phone, regular exposure is key to keeping your goals at the forefront of your mind.

Place your vision board somewhere you’ll see it daily, we suggest using it as your phones wallpaper.

How to Use Your Vision Board:

• Spend a few minutes each day looking at your board.

• Visualize achieving these goals and how it feels.

• Update your board as your goals evolve or as you achieve them.

Creating a vision board can be a fun, creative, and empowering process.

It’s more than just a craft project – it’s a visual representation of your future.

As you look at your board each day, let it remind you of where you’re heading and motivate you to take the steps necessary to get there.

Now that you know how to create a vision board, why not start today?

Share your vision board with us in the comments on our social media account, we’d love to see what you’re dreaming up!

If you don’t know, now you know, a Native. 

Diné weaver collaboration with Ralph Lauren

Article via Apple News

In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, Ralph Lauren this month announced its partnership with Diné (Navajo) textile artist Naiomi Glasses. The seventh-generation weaver became the brand’s inaugural artist-in-residence and debuted a collection that reflects her Native American roots.

With her first of three capsule collections within the Polo Ralph Lauren x Naiomi Glasses label, the 26-year-old designer offers an arguably youthful take on traditional design. The designs incorporate Diné symbols such as four-directional crosses and Spider Woman crosses into luxe garments including sweaters, wool wraps and embroidered jeans.

“It’s something that I’ve dreamed of since I was a teenager — to one day work with Ralph Lauren,” Glasses, who’s based in Arizona on the Navajo Nation, told Yahoo News. “To see those dreams come to fruition, it just feels so unreal, especially given where I’m located. I’m located in the middle of nowhere, nowhere near New York. And I'm like, how did this happen?”

Native Representation

While brands partnering with artists is hardly new, what’s groundbreaking about this particular collaboration is that the campaign is infused with Native representation throughout. Per Glasses’s request, in addition to her designs, the modeling talent, photographers, filmmakers, stylists and writers behind the promotion of the campaign are Native.

“When I was approached two years ago, I already had the dream of exactly how I wanted everything to be represented,” Glasses said. “I told them, I think it’d be really cool if everything that I did with this collection had Indigenous representation throughout.”

The team at Ralph Lauren was receptive, according to Glasses, which was something the designer said she’d never experienced before at that level with another brand.

“The closest I’ve gotten to it was one other campaign,” she said, adding that in that instance there had been only a single Indigenous photographer — not an entire squad of Native faces and names.

“An important part of our Artist in Residence program is making sure the communities we are collaborating with are meaningfully involved in telling the stories of their heritage,” David Lauren, chief branding and innovation officer, told Yahoo News via email. “The first drop of this collaboration is a love letter to Naiomi’s home on Navajo Nation. We all agreed that working with Native talent in front of and behind the camera would be an important way to honor and bring that inspiration to life. We were also supported by our external Native and Indigenous Advisory Council, with members from a range of fields and tribal affiliations, who advised us along the way on the campaign.”

For a truly IYKYK (if you know, you know) experience, the campaign features many familiar faces in the Indigenous creative community. Those include model Quannah Chasinghorse (Hän Gwich’in/Oglala Lakota), Prey producer Jhane Myers (Comanche/Blackfeet), Myers’s son Phillip Bread (Comanche/Kiowa), Here’s to You creative director Hud Oberly (Osage), along with Glasses, her brother Tyler and her parents, to name a few.

And that’s just in front of the camera. Ryan RedCorn (Osage), also a screenwriter on Reservation Dogs, served as a photographer along with Daryn Sells (Diné), with behind-the-scenes footage from Lonnie Begaye (Diné), while filmmaker Shaandiin Tome (Diné) shot the promotional short film and Cece Meadows (Yoeme/Nʉmʉnʉ) from Prados Beauty handled makeup.

“There’s just an element of having Indigenous people behind the scenes and in front of the camera that makes people feel comfortable,” Glasses said. “We’re all able to joke in this way that we all just understood, and it just felt really special to be able to share “auntie” laughs behind the scenes, basically joking about things, and it was just this great sense of community.”

‘From inspiration to collaboration’

For Native designers, whose artistry has often been appropriated by prominent fashion houses, this collaboration represents a noticeable pivot in terms of visibility. Ralph Lauren itself has even acknowledged its need to reexamine who is included in its fashionable vision of Americana, and this program is part of “the Company’s broader efforts to shift from inspiration to collaboration with communities that have inspired Ralph Lauren,” according to press materials.

The company previously collaborated with historically Black colleges Morehouse College and Spelman College for a collegiate-themed collection that launched in 2022 and has committed to working with many diverse creators in its artist-in-residence collaborations to come.

Taking the campaign a step further, Ralph Lauren said it will donate a portion of the proceeds from sales of the first capsule collection to Change Labs, a Native-led organization on the Navajo and Hopi Nations that supports Indigenous small businesses and entrepreneurs.

As a young designer, Glasses understands that other young Indigenous artists are looking to her as a role model and inspiration for what they can also accomplish.

“I’m hoping to show them to follow their dreams, even if it seems wild, because I had these dreams at 16,” she said. “And it’s truly something that dreams are made of.”

Amber Midthunder - Lakota

Amber Midthunder was born on April 26, 1997, in Montana, USA, she was influenced by her father, David Midthunder, a respected actor and cultural educator, which shaped her early interest in the performing arts.

 Her career in acting commenced in her childhood, with her debut in "Sunshine Cleaning" (2008) at the age of 11. This early start in the industry fueled her passion for acting, leading to more significant opportunities. She achieved a major career breakthrough with her portrayal of Kerry Loudermilk in the FX series "Legion" (2017-2019), a show based on Marvel Comics, which was met with critical acclaim and significantly raised her profile in the industry.

 In addition to "Legion," Midthunder has been praised for her performance in "Roswell, New Mexico" (2019-2022), where she played Rosa Ortecho, and for her role in the critically acclaimed film "Hell or High Water" (2016). Her versatility as an actress is evident through these varied performances.

 A significant highlight of her career is her lead role in the 2022 film "Prey," a part of the Predator franchise. In this film, she plays Naru, a skilled Comanche warrior. Her performance in "Prey" was widely acclaimed for its intensity and depth, further establishing her as a talented and versatile actress.

 Midthunder is also known for her activism, especially concerning the rights and representation of her people in media. She advocates for authentic and respectful portrayal of Native characters, contributing to the movement for better representation in Hollywood.

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