Dear Vision Board Friends, I was moved by a story of homeless vets and I have made it my mission to help. Please see story below and either come to this event or donate online!

WHAT: Scottsdale AZ (06/24 /2009)-- Operation Gold Drop- To honor our Forgotten Homeless Veterans in time for Independence Day. Supporters, caring individuals and familys are encouraged to donate to our vets by reaching into their jewelry boxes instead of their pockets for any old, broken or unwanted gold jewelry, silver, platinum or scrap gold. With the growing need for philanthropic organizations to receive donations during these hard-hitting economic times, Scottsdale based Urban Treasures has created a way to assist our vets described as "Creative Giving". Just one broken earring can go a long way to help our vets off the streets. Efforts to raise $100,000 are being launched with this inagural event of many National Events planned.
For every donor, Golden Spoon will serve a complimentary yogurt. Raffle will include gift certificates from local 94th street shops including: Sway Apparel Boutique, Elements Massage, Scottsdale Spa and other retailers.
All Veterans will be treated to refreshments from South Beach Resturant.

WHO: Veterans from various Posts and the general public are encouraged to attend.

WHEN: Saturday, June 27th. starting at 9am until 5pm.

WHERE: 9375 E. Shea Blvd. Scottsdale AZ 85260 (94th Hundred Shops at the Regus Center)

Overview:
On any given night more than 200,000 of our veterans line our nation’s streets. 200,000. Essentially, the population of Des Moines, Iowa is sleeping under bridges. “After reading an article in the Arizona Republic, we were moved and felt compelled to help and take action’, says Michael Smith, Urban Treasures Executive Project Manager.

By donating old, broken or unwanted jewelry, you can help provide emergency, transitional and permanent housing to the homeless and displaced veterans. A piece of broken jewelry can help in offering an aggressive outreach to those vets living on the streets who otherwise would not seek assistance. A broken earring can help in providing employment assistance and connections. An outdated necklace can help in developing a model for other veteran groups across the United states. Through Creative Giving, we can create an environment that empowers, provides dignity and encourages self-responsibility. We can assist in providing clinical assessments and referral for physical and psychiatric disorders including substance abuse.

Visualization is the Key to Unlocking the Power of Your Subconscious Mind

The Power of Visualization Comes from the Subconscious Mind

Visualizations are the images that are always, everywhere, playing on the projection screen of your mind. Repeated over and over, these images fill your subconscious mind like rivers running into a deep lake.

If the rivers are polluted, the lake will be polluted too. If you play visualizations of “can’t,” limitation, and victimization, your “heart” (the traditional name for your subconscious mind) will be full of the same. Certain consequences follow: you will be unable, limited, victimized. You will be blind to obvious opportunities to help yourself and others by making more money, improving your relationships and making the world a better place. You will see the world as a low-wage, zero-opportunity prison where you are constantly victimized. You will think that what you do doesn’t matter. You will feel like a speck of dust being blown about by forces you can’t control. All because your subconscious mind is full of the dark pollution of “can’t,” limitation, victimization or whatever other negative images that may contaminate it.
On the other hand, if you hold in your mind images of love, truth, possibility and expectation, your “heart” (your subconscious mind) will be full of the same. It will be like a deep lake full of clean, nutrient-rich water. It will allow you to see worlds upon worlds of opportunity, all of them within your reach, a vast buffet of life, love, truth, possibility. It will allow you to act confidently and decisively to take advantage of opportunities that hang within your reach like varieties of sweet fruit.

How Vision Boards Work

If you’ve ever been to a motivational seminar, you know how quickly a burst of motivation can evaporate. If you jog for only one weekend or eat well for only one day, you can be off to a great start but it’s not going to help in the long run unless you can build good habits of exercising and eating well. Within a week of a motivational seminar, you may find yourself warming the couch again. But this isn’t the case with a vision board.

You look at a vision board every day so it motivates you every day. You make plans, find opportunities, feel emotional energy and take action. Because you’re taking action, you see yourself making progress. Your life changes to match the images on your boards. Witnessing concrete success adds more fuel to your self-help motor. And in a year or two or five, you’ve reached your goal. It all starts with an intense, focused, repeated and goal-oriented visualization. Remember, vision boarding is a practice, not an activity you do just once.

How Affirmations Work

Affirmations are based on the following principles:
Your present reality is a direct result of your thinking
Change your thinking, and your reality changes
Affirmations change your thinking