We humans are the architects of our own destiny. Driven by our needs and the hunger to explore and make a better life has led us to take gigantic leaps of faith. Happily, mankind has only progressed. Such is the power of visualization.
You dream, you manifest, and you make it come true. A vision board isn’t just a collage—it’s a visual commitment to your goals, a daily reminder, and your very own motivational pill. Here’s how to make one that actually helps you manifest results.
What Is a Vision Board?
The name is self-explanatory. It’s meticulously putting together words and images that speak of your vision for yourself. It requires you to think of everything you want to achieve and map it out on your vision board.
Why Is a Vision Board Important?
In the bustle of life, a vision board is a ready reckoner of what the blueprint of your future looks like—it may be a short-term plan or a longer haul, but whatever it is, it’s there for you to see and add strength to by daily manifestation.
Also, the roadmap you have chalked for yourself helps in keeping your priorities in order. There are fewer chances of you losing focus. The efforts become concerted and yield better results.
On days when you feel under a cloud, looking at your vision board is just the pick-me-up you’ll need to get going again. What you painstakingly bring to life on paper or your screen makes the efforts count and not feel like a burden anymore.
How to Make a Vision Board
Here’s a simple step-by-step we recommend following when getting started with a vision board:
Step 1: Get Clear on What You Want
Break it down:
Make categories and break it down as health, relationships, lifestyle, travel, career, and whatever else you want to be reminded of. Generic goals don’t give you the direction you need to reach somewhere. The route to the end goal might just get tangled, finding you going round in circles. When you write specifically—let’s say, to stop eating junk food or exercising daily, or bonding better with your parents/siblings, and seeing yourself scale up your business—you put specific efforts to remain focused on the road you have mapped for yourself.
Step 2: Choose Your Medium
Physical board
There are a lot of us who prefer the physical medium like a poster, chalkboard, or a white/cork board. People like to write, paste or pin pictures, make flowcharts, and at times, re-arrange goals and ideas when priorities need shifting.
It’s greatly satisfying as you feel in control of what you plan to do in the near/distant future. Everything is like a blueprint in front of your eyes that you can see every day and add reinforcements to your resolve to accomplish.
Digital
For those who have one or the other handheld device/laptop in front of them, using applications like Canva, Pinterest, or Notion is an excellent way of keeping your vision board in the form of a picture collage and words in front of your eyes.
Many like to use it as a wallpaper so that the reminder is seen each time the screen lights up. Some like to keep the background bright, with pictures that speak of the idea itself, and others keep the background dimmer, and the pictures suggestive. Choose what suits your aesthetics.
Step 3: Gather Visuals That Spark Emotion
Make sure you choose pictures that speak to you. When you look at your vision board, each element of it should reiterate your plan, infuse more life into your dreams, and be your constant reminder. Vague material will bore you, but the ones chosen with intent will drive you.
Step 4: Add Words, Affirmations, or Quotes
Words have great power. Remember to choose the few that align with your vision. Keep coming back to them often and add whenever there is a need to keep you on the path to the realization of your dreams.
Quotes that are your dreams spelled out in a few words will keep you grounded and focused in your hustle. Affirmations are magical. They help with manifestation. Speak of your vision like it has already come true. Speak to yourself like you are a winner.
Step 5: Organize by Themes or Feelings
You could think of making columns and putting similar goals all clubbed together. In this way, the vision board itself will unravel more easily. There is a lot of thought you may have to put into organizing your vision board.
Build it a little each day, and then, let it be the vision board you carry forward into your future days.
Be it in the form of a spreadsheet, rows and columns, flowcharts, fitted into squares and rectangles, or circles—make the vision board as lucid as possible.
Step 6: Keep It Visible + Use It Daily
Look at it every morning. Ideally, place it somewhere you can see it first thing when you wake up, and last, when you go to sleep. Visualization is a powerful tool. It stimulates the brain to function in a specific way once it’s disciplined to work in a particular fashion. Look at your vision board every single day, as many times as you can.
Visualize your goals as already happening. Speak of your dreams as already fulfilled. The power of manifestation is real. Affirmations are key to the realization of your dreams. Build self-worth and self-esteem by talking kindly and highly of yourself.
Conclusion
Your dreams deserve more than a passing thought. Make them visible, and you’ll move towards them faster than you think. Then again, dreams and visions have to be tethered to come true. Bring them to life on vision boards, and keep checking them out, one after the other. Like everything else in life, make a blueprint, plan routes, fix directions, and then get down to the brass tacks of making your best life.
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