How to: Create your own personal manifesto

New Year, new crafty goals? Most of us start the year with grand ideas of world domination within the next 12 months but tend to lose sight of our goals at some point as real life gets in the way. The solution to losing sight of the goalposts is to make yourself a personal manifesto with a little help from Gwen Bell.

Gwen suggests a few ways to create your manifesto and I've picked out a couple of the craftier ones:

A Vision Map - a flurry of magazines, scissors, glue and marker pens which creates a laminated map of things you want to get done. Stick it up on a wall or somewhere you can see it daily to give you an extra shove.

A Life List (pictured above) - Just what it says on the tin, the Life List, is a huge list of 100 goals/dreams/projects that you want to do before you kick the bucket. Gwen's whiteboard method makes the list very hard to ignore.

In both cases creating your list in a way that means you can cross off those you achieve gives you a sense of accomplishment for every one too.

It's all very well bursting with crafty ideas and ambitions but it definitely helps to plonk them all where you can see them. You can see Gwen's other suggestions here.

Crafting your manifesto also ends up being a project in itself, so you can cross that one off when you're done and you've made a start already.

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