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How I Visualised My Dreams Into Reality: Maria Rahajeng (Transcript)

Here is the full transcript of Maria Rahajeng’s talk titled “How I Visualised My Dreams Into Reality” at TEDxYouth@SWA conference.

In this TEDx talk, Indonesian beauty pageant titleholder Maria Rahajeng shares her experience of visualizing and manifesting her dreams into reality. As a visual learner, Maria created a dream board at 16 years old to visualize her desired life using the law of attraction. Despite her father’s traditional upbringing and her initial studies in broadcasting journalism, Maria pursued her love for fashion and worked hard to achieve her goals.

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TRANSCRIPT:

Growing up, I was always a visual person. I grew up with a visual learning style. This meant that I preferred seeing something on a chalkboard rather than the teacher saying it with their words. And I preferred reading something from a book rather than listening to it.

I’ve also read that visual learners, amongst other things, are known to be, one, very quiet and shy, two, we love to scribble and draw when bored, and three, we love to make lists and plans for the future.

Now growing up, I would say I was all of the above. I was so quiet and shy. I actually loved going to school and was a good student. But I had a hard time speaking up in class, and I especially hated public speaking. So something that I’m doing right now, speaking in front of a large group of people, that was not my thing at all.

I hated all that attention on me, and I would be so nervous. And I would forget everything that I was about to say, and I would just embarrass myself in front of everybody. Now I also really loved to sketch and draw. I especially loved fashion design, and I would do this every single day. I was obsessed with fashion.

I would take home all of the fashion magazines, and I would look at all of the beautiful models and photo shoots. And it would transport me to a completely different world and completely different reality.

Now on to the third point, love making lists and plans for the future. I actually didn’t write down what I wanted to be when I grew up. But I would draw what I wanted to be when I grew up. And I would call this my dream board.

I want to talk specifically about a dream board that I made when I was 16 years old. But before that, what exactly is a dream board? Well, a dream board or a vision board is a collage of images, pictures, and affirmations of one’s dreams and desires designed to serve as a source of inspiration and motivation and to use the law of attraction to attain these goals.

Now as a 16-year-old girl, this is roughly what I drew. I wanted to work in the fashion industry. I had the words passion for fashion written on it, and I wanted to have a house of my own to travel the world. And I wanted to become a TV presenter, so I drew myself with a microphone.

Now as a 16-year-old girl, I never thought in a million years that any of these things would come true. But I put that photo in my room, and I would look at it on a regular basis, and looking at these dreams and these affirmations on a daily basis, it would eventually change my life because I learned that change begins with yourself.

It begins from within, and when looking, trying out for this dream board, you know, there are specific questions to ask yourself. Now beforehand, I’d also like to mention that what I love about this dream board, the notion of it is that it begins with you. It completely begins and ends with you, not what your parents want you to do, not what your superiors want you to do, but what you want to do.

Now these are important questions to ask yourself, and what I asked myself, how do you visualize your life? What do you wish to achieve in life? What inspires you? What motivates you? Because at the end of the day, before we even begin to achieve anything in life, we must first and foremost have the courage to dream and to visualize it.

Now going back to the definition of a dream board, it also talks about the law of attraction. Now I’m a huge believer that what we think on a daily basis, our thoughts, what we focus on, these are all things that help us to attain what we want in life. The ability to attain things based on what we’re focused on. So in other words, if we’re focusing on the good, then positivity will come, and if we focus on the bad, then negativity will come.

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Because the law of attraction is one of the most powerful laws in the universe, because it is happening every single day. It’s happening every single second, and it’s happening right now. We are all in control and creating our realities with each and every single one of our thoughts, which in other words, either consciously or subconsciously, we are all creating our futures with each and every single one of our thoughts. Now please keep that in mind.

Keep in mind the power of visualization and the power of the law of attraction. Now this is what I had in mind when I was 16 years old. I wanted to work in the TV industry. I wanted to have a house of my own, travel the world, and I wanted to work in the fashion industry.

And so I let this vision just guide me in my life and in my career. And so the next year, I was 17, I went up to my dad and I told him, I want to study fashion design. And at that time, fashion design courses, they didn’t offer a bachelor’s degree.