Creating a Vision Board

Why vision boards are a powerful tool every ambitious person should use.

Having a vision board is one of the best ways to make your goals clear to you and motivate yourself to actualize them. You’ve heard great speakers and celebrities swear by them, saying great things about their potential or transform the path of life and charm one’s biggest wishes. That’s said, there are very few people who know how to make vision boards properly. The number of people who also know how to use them is equally disappointing. This article will explore what vision boards are, how to make a good one, and how to best take advantage of them. Let’s begin with what vision boards are.

What is a vision board?

If you are familiar with manifestation, you have a rough idea of a vision board. Basically, a vision board is a physical manifestation that makes it a perfect way of bringing lessons from the Law of Attraction into life.

A vision board will be a physical board with their greatest desires pinned to it for most people.  While these magazine cuttings and artful collages make for a good presentation, a vision board’s purpose goes beyond being a tool for wishful thinking.  It is an immensely powerful tool used to visualize dreams, goals, and other desires by blocking out the unnecessary things—this leaves you with only the things that matter the most to you. This is called the power of choice. It allows you to set clear goals and have straightforward intentions. Above anything else, the book Law of attraction contends that this helps you attract these things and turn them from vision to reality.

How vision boards work

Visualization is a powerful mind exercise. Using vision boards, you put visual representations of all your goals in one place so that you can see all of them at a glance. This means that they are always at the top of your mind, mostly because you will look at them, imagine them and find ways to make them come true. Vision boards tap into the power of choice, the power of consistency, and the power of visualization to help you achieve your goals. 

The power of choice means that you will pick out a few priority targets from an extensive list of goals. This means that you cut out the noise and that you are only left with what matters the most. After narrowing down the focus, the power of visualization makes sure that you are reminded of the main targets. If you have poor concentration or have the unfortunate tendency not to follow through with things, visualizing them has a powerful way of making you work for it. Even if it means taking small steps towards the big goal.  For sports players, repeating an action over a long period means that the action becomes intuitive—this is commonly known as muscle memory. For goals, visualizing them constantly is like repeating an action. They become etched even to your subconscious, and this regular visualization means that even when you are not actively pursuing your objective, the mind will subconsciously work you towards it.

A good vision board looks like this.

If you are feeling challenged to come up with your own vision board, you are probably wondering where and how to get started to developing vision boards that will inspire and empower you.  Before you begin on a vision board, you have first to appreciate that it is personal, and it is only through honesty that it will work for you. Whether you are making one as a group or individually, it is the sincerity of the goals that will give the passion and motivation to pursue it –no matter what hurdles you face.

So, to begin designing a vision board, begin by asking yourself the following questions

• What goals, dreams, or visions do I want to pin to the boards?
• Is this board supposed to cover one aspect of life or your entire life experiences?
• What images will I use, what do they stand for, and what will be the source of these images?
• What style of vision board do I go with—organized or messy?

With these questions answered, your introspection has worked, and you can proceed to begin developing your vision board.

To make an empowering vision board, you have to be clear about your dreams and goals and find images representing your desires and inspiring to you in the same vein. Once you are done cutting out, pasting, gluing, etc., you have to think about where to set up the vision board. Ideally, it has to be in an open place with a clear line of sight to it. Exposing the vision board means that you will spend time visualizing your goals, affirming and internalizing everything when you see it.  Time spent doing these seemingly mundane tasks is critical because the images will be on a constant slideshow in your head. With this, you can modify your goals and be proactive with strategies and actions for achieving them.

There is no limit to the number of vision boards you can have, but critically as well, you have to have a reasonable number of goals that you can work efficiently to achieving. You can redo it as many times as you want, or you can leave a space for the next time you want to add something to it. That said, vision boards are an important manifestation tool, and anyone committed to achieving their goals ought to try them to witness their importance.