Vision Boards

Vision boards have become a massive thing over the last couple of years. If you ever made a collage as a kid or did brainstorming activities, you have ventured into the world of vision boards already. The purpose of a vision board is to help you visualize a goal or goals you want to achieve.

There are many ways you can do your board, there are online ones if you are more of a computer edits sort of person or the old fashioned version of paper, glue and magazines. I have tried and tested both and I personally prefer the paper version. I am a person with a lot of thoughts and ideas running around my head at any given point so I generally don’t focus my board on one particular goal.

Whether you are basing your board on one specific area or goal or on many different ones, a good place to start first is to do a wheel of life diagram like the one pictured below. You mark off from one to 10 how satisfied you are with your achievements in this area at the present time. How you perceive what each area is asking will also affect your answer. We will use Health, for example, I suffer from a lifelong illness it is not perfect but I manage it well, I eat relatively healthy and I am physically active. I would rate my health at around 9, it is not exactly where I want it to be, but, I am working on it. Someone else might see that as, I have a lifelong illness, so my health is at 3. Don’t dwell too much on what number is right, it is to give you a snapshot of where your life is at present and what areas need more attention and where to start. So maybe I do say 3 for health as it is something I feel needs more attention right now.

For both types of boards, if you decided that you want your board to be for a specific goal, search for images and words in magazines, or online that are associated with this goal. It can include pictures of you if you wish. Also, google vision boards and see what stands out to you and what kind of images and boards you are drawn too

If you go down the route that I generally do, I flick through the web or magazines and find images, words, pictures that jump out at me for no particular reason. I collect them all and go over them again and study each to see if I really feel I want to add them to my board.

When I have decided on what I want to include I place them all on my board and make sure they reflect my thoughts before gluing them down. You can design your board whatever way you want this is for you and nobody else, it is your thoughts, dreams, and goals that you want to achieve. A vision board is about the law of attraction if you put something out there and really believe you deserve it then you will get it. The board is also there to motivate you and remind you of what you want to achieve by seeing it every day.

I did a board last year, full of lots of different things, words like confidence, creative, happier, wealthier, values, the secret of being happy and lots more. At the time I hadn’t thought about doing a blog but when I got creative with some other things it led me here to start this and I am so happy I did. You can see it below there is a lot going on, on it, as I said earlier I have a busy mind so my boards are always full of the different things I want to do.

So, there is a lot of information to take in above, let me give you a brief 10 points to a successful vision board.

1. Decide if you want to do a paper or digital board
2. Do a wheel of life, can be done on paper or online, you can include it on your board if you wish, I have mine on the back of my board
3. Decide if you want to focus on one particular area from the wheel of life, a specific goal or do a general board
4. Start searching for words, pictures, and quotes that are directed towards your goal or/and are drawn to you
5. Search in magazines and on the internet for more options
6. Gather any materials you wish to use. Cut out or edit anything you have for your board
7. Design your board with the colours, words, and images you have chosen
8. Examine it, leave it for an hour, come back and look at it again
9. If you are happy with it, stick it all down, it may change slightly
10. Now stick it up somewhere you will see it every day or on the front screen of your phone and start visualising what you can achieve.

Now is a perfect time, to actually sit down and spend time with yourself and set yourself new goals, they don’t have to be anything massive they can be small and focused but something you really want to achieve. I did one recently, the world has hit slow down and I want to make the most of it because soon we will be back to our “normal” lives that don’t stop. I did my board a little bit more specific to what I want to achieve now. It is stuck up on the wall of my new home office in the corner of my room and I look at it now while I write this and feel motivated to what I want to do, so what is stopping you from getting those thoughts and dreams out on a board, you never know you might even achieve them sooner than you think.