Vision Boards Unlocked Her Dream Career Through Neuroscience

Published 2025-03-24 16-55

Summary [fiction]

A skeptic discovers how vision boards actually work through neuroscience, leading to career breakthroughs that match exactly what she’d imagined—just like her teenage friend predicted.

The story

Ever roll your eyes at vision boards? I did. When my friend Maya covered her wall with Olympic medals and scholarship cutouts at thirteen, I thought it was ridiculous.

Fast forward: Maya’s swimming on a full scholarship while I’m stuck in dead-end jobs, her words echoing: “The mind conceives, believes, achieves.”

After another rejection, I stumbled across something about the Reticular Activating System in an old textbook. Turns out our brains filter out 99% of what’s around us, only showing what we’ve programmed it to notice.

So I tried it—created a digital vision board with corner office dreams and speaking gigs. I visualized these daily.

Weirdly, opportunities I’d never noticed before started appearing. Six months later, an article pitch earned me a promotion. Two years in, I was speaking at a conference from the exact corner office I’d imagined.

Not magic—just my subconscious [which processes information 20,000 times faster than conscious thought] finally tuned to spot opportunities aligned with my goals.

Makes me wonder what else we could achieve if we truly understood this connection between imagination and reality. Maybe Maya was onto something profound all along.

[From Chapter 6 of “The Journey – I Wish I Knew This Before I Was 21”]

This post was inspired by Chapter 6 of my “The Journey – I wish I knew this before I was 21” book, at
https://attilahorvath.net/the-journey.

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Keywords: motivation, vision board psychology, neuroscience manifestation, career visualization techniques