Paint Your Dream Life by Cyrille C. Catel is a transformative guide to intentional living. Combining personal stories, visionary tools, and actionable exercises, it empowers readers to design the lives they’ve always dreamed of using the revolutionary framework of Intentional Vision Anchoring.
Drawing from decades of experience in executive coaching, business consulting, and artistry, Catel introduces the life-changing practice of creating vision anchors—artistic representations of goals that act as daily reminders and subconscious motivators. Through relatable stories like Livia’s inspiring journey, readers learn to harness mindfulness, neuroscience, and creativity to overcome challenges and achieve aspirations.
This book provides step-by-step strategies to:
Manifest love and meaningful relationships.
Navigate major life transitions with clarity and purpose.
Achieve financial freedom and professional success.
Strengthen family bonds and foster shared values.
Unlock potential using visualization and goal-setting techniques.
Packed with reflective questions, real-life examples, and practical exercises, Paint Your Dream Life is a tool for personal transformation and a roadmap for resilience, creativity, and growth. Whether redefining your career, deepening relationships, or seeking purpose, this book will inspire and guide you.
Are you ready to create your masterpiece and live intentionally?
Paint Your Dream Life by Cyrille C. Catel is a transformative guide to intentional living. Combining personal stories, visionary tools, and actionable exercises, it empowers readers to design the lives they’ve always dreamed of using the revolutionary framework of Intentional Vision Anchoring.
Drawing from decades of experience in executive coaching, business consulting, and artistry, Catel introduces the life-changing practice of creating vision anchors—artistic representations of goals that act as daily reminders and subconscious motivators. Through relatable stories like Livia’s inspiring journey, readers learn to harness mindfulness, neuroscience, and creativity to overcome challenges and achieve aspirations.
This book provides step-by-step strategies to:
Manifest love and meaningful relationships.
Navigate major life transitions with clarity and purpose.
Achieve financial freedom and professional success.
Strengthen family bonds and foster shared values.
Unlock potential using visualization and goal-setting techniques.
Packed with reflective questions, real-life examples, and practical exercises, Paint Your Dream Life is a tool for personal transformation and a roadmap for resilience, creativity, and growth. Whether redefining your career, deepening relationships, or seeking purpose, this book will inspire and guide you.
Are you ready to create your masterpiece and live intentionally?
Every morning, you wake up and, without even realizing it, begin to absorb the world around you. Whether through your smartphone, the news, billboards on your commute, or conversations with others, your mind constantly processes an avalanche of information. Some of these inputs are positive, but many are parasitical distractions—influences that steer you away from your true desires, pulling you into thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that are not aligned with your goals.
Think about it: How much of your day is spent reacting to external stimuli rather than consciously creating your reality? When you scroll through social media, are you in control of what’s entering your mind, or are you being bombarded with images, ideas, and comparisons that make you feel inadequate, restless, or unsure of yourself? Most of us live in an unconscious reaction, constantly pulled in different directions by the influences around us.
But what if you could reverse that? What if you could take back control and use your environment to anchor yourself in the vision of the life you truly want? What if, instead of being acted upon by the world, you could design your world to act upon you in ways that align with your deepest desires?
This is where intentional vision anchoring and mindful living come in.
The Power of Visual Influence
Your environment is far more powerful than you may think. From the moment you wake up to the moment you fall asleep, your mind absorbs and processes the images, sounds, and messages surrounding you. These inputs shape our thoughts, influence our emotions, and drive our actions. The problem is that most of us don’t choose what we’re exposed to. We’re bombarded by external messages that don’t serve us—advertisements, social media posts, negative news stories—and these parasitical distractions infiltrate our subconscious, slowly steering us away from the life we want to live.
Parasitical distractions are sneaky. They seem harmless at first glance, but they work their way into your mind and become a part of your inner dialogue. Think about how often you see advertisements that make you question your appearance, lifestyle, or financial status. Or how scrolling through social media can leave you feeling like you’re falling behind while everyone else is succeeding. These distractions gradually shift your focus away from your desires and make you feel like you’re living someone else’s life.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. Intentional vision anchoring is a tool that allows you to take control of your environment by filling it with images that represent the life you want to create. Instead of letting random inputs shape your reality, you can consciously design your physical and digital space to reinforce your dreams and desires. Every time you see these intentional images, you anchor yourself in your vision, rewiring your brain to focus on the future you want to manifest.
The Role of Mindful Living
Mindfulness is being fully present and engaged, aware of your thoughts, feelings, and surroundings without judgment. It’s a state of intentional awareness that allows you to step back from everyday life's constant mental chatter and distractions and focus on what truly matters.
In intentional vision anchoring, Mindfulness is vital for connecting to your goals and desires. However, more than creating a vision anchor alone is required; you must also cultivate the habit of paying attention to the present moment. This lets you notice when distractions pull your mind away and gently guide it back to your vision. Practicing mindfulness creates the mental space needed to engage meaningfully with your vision anchors, ensuring they remain powerful tools for transformation rather than just background noise.
Mindful living encourages you to approach your day with intention, bringing conscious awareness to your thoughts and actions aligning with your vision. It helps you recognize when parasitical distractions derail your focus, allowing you to pause, breathe, and realign with your goals.
In essence, mindfulness and vision anchoring work together. Mindfulness grounds you in the present moment, allowing you to notice and manage distractions, while vision anchoring pulls you forward, helping you stay aligned with your long-term goals.
The Subconscious: Your Silent Partner
We must first understand the subconscious mind’s role in understanding intentional vision anchoring's power. According to neuroscientist and author Dr. Bruce Lipton, the subconscious mind governs approximately 95% of your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. This means that most of what you do daily is driven by unconscious programming—beliefs, habits, and patterns ingrained in your mind over time.
Most of this programming happens without you even realizing it. From childhood, you’re exposed to countless influences—parents, teachers, media, societal expectations—and these inputs shape your beliefs about yourself and the world around you. When you’re an adult, many of these beliefs have become so deeply embedded in your subconscious that you don’t question them. You live according to the script you’ve been given, reacting to life based on these unconscious patterns.
But here’s the good news: Your subconscious mind can be reprogrammed. Neuroplasticity allows your brain to form new neural connections throughout your life. This means that with intentional practice, you can reshape your subconscious mind and align it with your conscious desires. You can create new mental pathways that support your vision for the future by feeding your subconscious with positive, goal-oriented imagery.
This is where intentional vision anchoring becomes a game-changer. By surrounding yourself with images representing the life you want, you’re feeding your subconscious with the cues to focus on those goals. Over time, these visual anchors help rewire your brain, shifting your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to align with your desired outcomes.
Parasitical Distractions: The Hidden Enemy
Before we dive deeper into the process of vision anchoring, it’s essential to recognize the enemy you’re up against parasitical distractions. These distractions are pervasive and subtle and often disguise themselves as harmless or beneficial. They come from various sources—social media, advertisements, news outlets, even well-meaning friends and family members—but their effect is the same: they drain your focus and energy away from your actual goals.
Social Media: The Comparison Trap
Social media is one of the most insidious forms of parasitical distraction. While it can be an excellent tool for connection and inspiration, it also bombards you with a constant stream of curated, idealized images of other people’s lives. Every time you scroll through TikTok, Instagram, or Facebook, you’re exposed to a carefully filtered reality—perfect vacations, bodies, and relationships. These images trigger feelings of inadequacy and comparison, making you question whether your life measures up.
But the truth is, these images are designed to manipulate your emotions. Social media platforms are built to keep you engaged, and they do this by feeding you content that provokes strong emotional reactions—whether it’s envy, insecurity, or even outrage. The more time you spend in this comparison state, the further you drift from your vision for your life.
Advertisements: Selling You an Empty Promise
Advertisements are another form of parasitical distraction. Everywhere you go, you’re bombarded with ads telling you what to buy, what to wear, how to look, and how to feel. These ads create a sense of lack, convincing you that you’re not enough as you are and that buying a particular product will solve your problems. But here’s the catch: the promises made by these ads are often empty. They offer temporary satisfaction at best, leaving you constantly chasing the following product or solution.
The News: A Cycle of Fear and Negativity
News outlets also contribute to the parasitic distraction cycle by bombarding you with constant negativity. Headlines are designed to provoke fear and anxiety, keeping you glued to the latest crisis or disaster. While staying informed is essential, overexposure to negative news can skew your perception of reality, making the world feel scarier and more dangerous than it is. This can lead to helplessness, making it difficult to focus on your goals and aspirations.
Information Overload: Drowning in Data
Finally, there’s the problem of information overload. In today’s digital age, you’re constantly bombarded with information from all directions—emails, texts, news updates, social media notifications, and more. This never-ending data stream can overwhelm your mind, making it difficult to focus on what’s truly important. The more you try to process, the more scattered your attention becomes, leaving little room for intentional thought or reflection.
The Mindset of Abundance
One of the most important principles within the Law of Attraction is the concept of Abundance. Abundance, as defined in this context, is the belief that there is more than enough for everyone—love, success, health, or wealth. The universe, according to this principle, is infinitely generous. It doesn’t operate from a place of scarcity or competition but offers endless opportunities for growth, fulfillment, and prosperity.
In contrast to the scarcity mindset—which makes you believe that resources are limited and you must fight to get your share—the abundance mindset encourages you to trust that your desire is already available. You don’t need to struggle or compete to get what you want. Instead, you must align your thoughts and actions with the belief that everything you need is already within reach.
The idea of abundance also applies to your interactions with others. When you operate from a mindset of abundance, you’re not threatened by other people’s success. Instead, you recognize that there’s more than enough for everyone, and you can celebrate the victories of others without feeling diminished. This mindset shift can profoundly impact your personal and professional life, opening you up to opportunities you might have overlooked.
Anchoring Abundance through Intentional Vision
Combining the mindset of abundance with intentional vision anchoring creates a powerful tool for manifesting your desires. By anchoring your vision in the belief that there is more than enough for you, you reinforce the idea that success, love, and fulfillment are not things you need to chase—they’re already available. It would be best to tune into them.
Imagine creating a vision anchor that represents abundance. This could be a piece of artwork that symbolizes prosperity, fulfillment, and generosity. Every time you see this image, you’re reminded of the infinite possibilities available to you, and you’re encouraged to act from a place of trust rather than fear. Over time, this vision anchor helps rewire your subconscious mind to operate from a mindset of abundance, allowing you to attract more of what you want into your life.
Intentional Vision Anchoring: Taking Control of Your Mind
So, how do you combat these parasitical distractions and take control of your mind? The answer lies in intentional vision anchoring. This practice allows you to consciously choose the images and messages that enter your mind, giving you the power to shape your subconscious to support your goals.
Intentional vision anchoring is about creating visual representations of the life you want to manifest and surrounding yourself with those images. Whether through artwork, photographs, or symbols, these images serve as anchors, reminding your subconscious mind of the reality you’re working toward.
Every time you see your vision anchor, your mind is reminded of your goals. This repeated exposure helps to rewire your brain through neuroplasticity, creating new neural pathways that align with your desires. Over time, this practice lets you stay focused on your vision, even in the face of distractions.
Conclusion: Taking Back Control
You can control your mind and life by practicing intentional vision anchoring and mindful living. Instead of being acted upon by parasitical distractions, you can consciously shape your environment and mindset to support your goals and desires. The images you surround yourself with will be powerful anchors, guiding your subconscious toward the reality you want to create. Mindfulness will keep you grounded in the present moment, ensuring that your actions align with your intentions.
As you continue through this book, you’ll follow the journey of Livia, a woman who uses intentional vision anchoring and mindful living to transform every aspect of her life—from finding love and building a successful career to improving her health and deepening her relationships. Through Livia’s story, you’ll see firsthand how these practices can change your life, just as they changed hers.
You’ll also find dedicated "Reflective Questions & Exercises" for each relevant chapter designed to deepen your journey. These guided reflections offer a space for self-reflection and help you clarify your values, intentions, and aspirations. By engaging with these exercises, you’ll integrate intentional vision anchoring into your life, creating your unique path toward your desired life.
Have you ever been scrolling on Instagram or other social media platforms and wondered "Why not me?" Do you look longingly at achievements that others have and wonder, "Why can't that be mine?" If so, then know that your desires are attainable. Allow Paint Your Dream Life by Cyrille C. Catel to renew and revolutionize your very existence.
Catel begins by getting down to the very root of what's holding us back. The subconscious mind. I never thought about how powerful and pervasive the script that we may be repeating unconsciously to ourselves can be. Nor did I fully comprehend that because the subconscious gives us 95% of our thoughts, intentions, and behaviors, it therefore becomes the platform by which our beliefs are shaped.
However, there's hope. And the author masterfully demonstrates through the usage of beautiful art and simple easy to follow analogies how we can reprogram the subconscious mind. Through neuroplasticity one can form new neural connections. And with practice one can intentionally reshape their consciousness mind.
I really like how readers are shown how to surround themselves with images that represent what they want to achieve. I like the thought of visualizing anchors to help rewire the brain. I began by visualizing a large, cerise colored anchor keeping me (while on my yacht lol) grounded and safe from parasitical distractions that try to keep me from my dreams. And every time a wave of distraction tries to move me off course, I just smile. Because, I know that my anchor can't be moved or removed without my authorization.
So, grab your mental paintbrushes and Paint Your Dream Life: An Inspiring Journey and Essential Guide to Intentional Vision Anchoring with Cyrille C. Catel.
Catel, the founder of Anchored Vision has decades behind him in helping both individuals and corporations to intentionally anchor themselves to envision and then attain their life goals. The author resides in Geneva Switzerland and can be reached at Cyrille@catel.vision.