The vision board or collage to the left was chosen by Joyce Schwarz to be included in her book "The Vision Board" which will be published by Harper Collins in late 2008. Joyce asked me write about this collage which is called 7 Wonders of the World. I remember the first day of my philosophy class in college. Our professor, Mr. McCarthy, an ex-football star who looked like Clark Kent, but with broken glasses tipped to one side, asked us all to write down what we wondered about. At 18, it was an exciting question and catapulted me into an inquiry of the meaning of life. More than 20 years later, and the search is over. Having spent many years traveling throughout the world propelled by curiosity and desiring to experience everything firsthand, I came to realize that the answers to the questions I was seeking lay deep within. The real journey didn’t require air travel or a passport. Today my wonders aren’t places to travel to, but states of being that inspire me, give me a sense of purpose and meaning, bring me joy, and the hope needed to continue my work as a media producer, photographer, and future activist/philanthropist. My 7 wonders are verbs: dream, dance, sing, inspire, explore, love and serve. I created this vision board with the intention of illustrating the feeling I wanted to operate from going forward. This year I realized that what has me stopped from fulfilling on my biggest dreams is that I have mastered the art of doing, but not the art of being. And it is in being, not the doing that the Laws of Attraction are activated in magical ways.