Vision Boards Are Bull Sh*t

And a perversion of the law of attraction

Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
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2 min readOct 3, 2021

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Self-help BS artists like Tony Robbins, and just about every snake oil salesperson in the MLM industry, foster the myth that the law of attraction supports that creating a vision board to help one focus on their goals will lead to achieving those goals. I think the law of attraction is generally misunderstood and misused, because, for example, positive energy also attracts negative energy and that is why narcissists, aka emotional vampires, easily hunt and prey upon empaths, but in this short piece I just want to focus on the vision board hogwash.

These con artists encourage people to cover their boards with their desires, and people cover them with pictures of big houses, fancy cars, expensive clothes, yachts, etc. These are all attachments that do not provide happiness, and thus vision boards are an obvious perversion of a spiritual concept for material gain. As Yvette Brand recently wrote:

Happiness is found within yourself. And even though some external things can make you feel happy for a short period, it won’t last. It’s great to finally be able to buy that car that you’ve always wanted or to go on that well-deserved vacation. Or to score a date with that person you’ve been eyeing for a while. But once you have it, you still have the feeling that something is missing. You’re always craving for more. Or something different. That initial happiness feeling coming from something external is not durable and soon you’ll be looking for the next thing. That’s your ego trying to make you believe that you need material things to be happy.

In fact, studies have shown that money does not buy happiness. See also.

Moreover, in my opinion, people should not pursue happiness. People should seek contentment. Happiness, like sadness, is a fleeting emotional state. I seek contentment, which is not settling but a hopefully high-altitude baseline, coming from within and connection to without. It doesn’t stem from the acquisition of attachments but awareness of connection to the world and the universe as a living, breathing, and heart-beating organism and from the alignment of mind and soul and discerning my why — my drive — from discovering who I am at my core.

In Rama I create, with soul-energy surging through my body, inspiring me and breathing wind into my sails,

Marcus

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
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Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.