Her #visionboard #dreamboard Came True! Italy, Man w/ gifts, Dog, 6 figure salary #itwasonmyvisionboard #thesecret #thelawofattraction

She made a vision board after watching the secret. Here's what she said happened: I remember these specifics:

• Passport image. At that time, I had yet to leave the country except for Canada. Those were the good ol’ days when Americans didn’t need a passport to visit their continental cousins.
• Man bearing gifts image. I was going through a “cheap men” phase back then. In fact, I had been stuck in that phase for my entire adult life. I am not a “thing” person, but I am a woman, and like all other women, I believe that it’s nice when a man makes you feel special. And doesn’t expect you to pay “half the time” in the name of “equality.” With your oh-so-lucrative early childhood music teacher’s salary. I had an engineer tell me that once. I explained to him that there was nothing equal between a teacher’s salary and an engineer’s salary.
• Woman with a dog image. My little Italian Greyhound was still alive (RIP Sweet Woof), but for whatever reason, I was drawn to the scene of a woman walking her scruffy terrier in the loveliest of garden communities. The scruffy terrier with strawberry blonde and white fur pictured in the image was the radical opposite of my sleek, blue fawn Iggy.
• Teacher revealing her shocking $104,496 salary image. I began my educational career as a Montessori teacher back in 1995 and made a whopping $19,000 a year. Woot! In order to pay for my survival — things may not be important, but food and shelter are — I decided to entrepreneurialize my teaching career and designed my own performing and visual arts curriculum for children ages 3-10. I brought in a whole lot more than $19,000, but a whole lot less than $104,496.

I could kick myself for not keeping the ’07 vision board. Thankfully, I did have the common sense to save the “teachers who earn the big bucks” image.Abracadabra, zippety zoard, look at what manifested from my ’07 board!

• My first trip abroad. To Italy. I’ve never been the same since. You wouldn’t be the same either if you had lived your very own version of Under the Tuscan Sun. *sigh*
• An Italian bearing gifts. The Boyfriend Formerly Known asRomeo Mio (refer to bullet directly above) made the least amount of money than any man I’ve ever dated, yet he was the most generous. He also ranked up there in the fun, personality, accent, and passion (for everything!) departments. That romance was amazing while it lasted. (cue the violins) Hey, have I ever told you that my Enneagram personality type is Type 4, which is sometimes called “The Tragic Romantic”? Heaven help me. (cue the violins again) Anywho, when The BFK as Romeo Mio visited me in Arizona, his suitcase bursted with thoughtful, meaningful gifts from Italia. I could cry just thinking about it. If you want to see what he brought me, you can dig into the archives here.
• World’s Most Precious Pooch. Woofie passed away after 14 years of faithful service as Girl’s Best Friend. I wasn’t ready to bring another dog into my life. Nope. I was too busy creating acurious, time-intensive blog project. And then… when I was minding my own beeswax… Bella picked me. Just like it’s supposed to happen, according to the rescue advocates of the world.
• The Big Bucks. Here’s our Real World Lesson of the Day, Boys and Girls: When you’re a teacher and make a difference in the world, you work your tushie off for the little bucks. When you sell your soul to the corporate educational sales machine, you are bored to tears while earning the big bucks. Oddly (or perhaps tellingly), while I was in the corporate world, whenever someone asked, “What do you do?”, I answered, “Well… I am a teacher, but right now I’m working in sales for an educational publisher.” I responded that way hundreds of times over the course of five years. Interesting, right? Once a teacher, always a teacher. And this teacher made more than $104,496 for a spell.

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