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Every person has hopes and dreams, but only those that take action turn those dreams into reality. Most people realize this and yet don’t know how to take action to get started.

Whether you’re just starting out or wanting to take your dreams and desires to the next level, using a vision board can help you reach your goals faster.

Why? Because the mind responds exceptionally well to visual stimulation.  

Vision boards help you clarify your goals, maintain focus and have a visual picture of what you are working towards.

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  •  The important role vision boards play in reaching your goals and dreams
  • The different types of vision boards you can create.
  • What supplies you’ll need in order to create your vision board.
  • How to set your goals and what setting intention has to do with reaching them. 
  • How to put together your vision board for maximum success
  • How to put your thoughts into action.

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Putting Thoughts into Action

“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.” – Joel A. Barker

Creating a vision board is a powerful way to visualize your goals. It’s a fun and creative way to think about how you want to behave and think.

Consider who and what you want to become as well as the success you want to achieve.

However, all this is just playing if we don’t follow through on the action to achieve the goals.

Oftentimes, people create their goals and get excited about them as they create their vision board.

Unfortunately, as time passes, they forget about following through and  taking action, as life sometimes gets in the way.

They put the board away and forget about their goal.

In fact, according to a University of Scranton study, 92 percent of people who set New Year’s goals never achieve them.

That means only 8 percent of people are going to be successful at achieving their goals.

You spent all this time getting clear on your goals, setting your intentions and creating a vision board that showcases what you want to achieve, you want to make the goal a success.

So how do you make your dreams a reality?

  • How do you use your vision board to help you achieve your dreams?
  • Where do you start?
  • What actions do you need to take?

It begins with what you do with your vision board once you’ve finished it.

Then you need to create a plan on how you will reach your goals as well as getting into the right mindset.

You have to hold yourself accountable for taking the steps needed achieve to your goals.

This guide will help you follow through and actually do what you said you were going to do when you created your vision board.

Are you ready to achieve your vision board goals? Here we go!

Using the Vision Board

“Look at the images on your vision board over and over. Repetitiveness of vision combined with your associated emotions will develop your power to visualize and take action to achieve your goals.” -John Assaraf

Once you create your vision board, you need to know how to use it in order to manifest your goals.

The following tips help you maximize its use and succeed in your goals.

  1. Place your vision board in somewhere prominently where you will be forced to see it every day, ideally first thing in the morning or in the evening before bedtime. This can be on a wall in your office, bedroom or on the refrigerator.
  2. Look at your board often, preferably daily. Looking at your vision board daily reminds you to work toward your dreams. Vision boards work by influencing your subconscious mind.
  3. Make your digital vision board your computer’s screen saver or your smartphone’s home page. This way you will see it often.
  4. Each time you look at your vision board, connect with the feelings of the intention associated with it.
  5. Remind yourself of the excitement and how good achieving your goal will feel.
  6. Another option is to take a photo of your paper vision board and keep it on your smartphone. Use it as wallpaper ensuring that you see it often.
  7. Use your vision board as a reminder to focus on your goals by imaging in detail what your life will be like when you reach your goals. Ask yourself these questions to make your dreams as realistic as possible such as:
  • How will I feel?
  • Who is with me?
  • What am I wearing?
  • What’s the weather like?
  • What do I smell?
  • What do I see?
  • What colors are prominent?
  • What do I feel?
  • What scents are in the air?

Your vision board is just a nice piece of artwork if you don’t use it to help you reach your goals.

Spend time looking at it, imagining your life as you see it in the images and do the work.

Inspired Action Plan

Your commitment to your goals began when you created your vision board. Your commitment to taking action on achieving your goals is what will help you reach them.

You need to know how you are going to make it happen.

Create a plan of action with steps you can begin to take to get you closer to your goals. It consists of a series of the steps you need to take to reach your goal.

Using your dream board, work backward to create the steps you’ll need to take to get to your goal.

Start by listing the steps you will need to take to reach the goal. If you don’t know what it will take to reach the goal, you will have to do some research.

Go online, to the library or speak to someone who has already achieved a similar goal.

Once you know the steps it will take to get to the goal, then you will create a basic outline of those steps. Here are some examples.

If your goal is to write and publish a best-selling book, you work back to where you would start. The end goal is the best selling list.

The previous step will be the marketing. Before that is the book publishing, and editing. The earlier step would be to finish writing it.

The beginning steps then are to research and begin to write.

If your goal is to eat healthy, then you need to know how to turn that picture of your low carb meals into your reality. The last step is the results, a healthy body.

The previous steps are eating healthy and exercise. The first step then is to research and decide how you are going to get healthy.

Next, you will need to break the bigger steps down into the smallest steps as possible. Each step should be broken down to having only one action associated with it.

Create a list of those actions that you need to complete each month for your goal.

  • Organize the steps place the most important first, then the next and so on.
  • Write the action steps in your goal calendar or your weekly planner.
  • Check off the steps as you accomplish them.

Just having a vision board and looking at it daily won’t magically get you to your goal. You have to take action to make the goal happen.

Using a planner write down each step, you need to take to reach your goal.

Vision Board for Focus

 “Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them”- Les Brown

Staying focused and motivated is the key to achieving your goals. Looking at your vision board everyday is a great way to help you stay focused.

It’s easy to sink back into old habits and to get derailed by shiny new things. People and circumstances are constantly pulling you in different directions all at once.

Using your vision board to keep you focused on your goals helps you avoid missteps.

No matter what happens throughout your day, your vision board is the reminder you need of where you want to be.

Whenever you feel yourself drifting down the wrong path, take a few minutes to gaze at your vision board.

Imagine what your life is like as if you’ve already achieved your goals.

This affects you on conscious and subconscious levels.

This keeps your mind focused on your intentions, your attentions on your goals and keeps you headed in the direction you want to go.

Spend time each morning and evening viewing your vision board.

The routine and frequency of visualizing, affirming, and believing you’ll achieve your goals help you make more progress.

Stay focused on the big goal by celebrating the small goals or steps along the way.

Write in your journal daily after you have looked at your vision board. Journal about how your life will be when your reach your goals.

Keeping a journal alongside your vision board helps you believe your goals will be achieved.

Get as detailed as possible about your goals. Focus on your emotions:

  • What you’re feeling
  • What you see
  • The sounds you hear
  • The smells associated with your goal
  • How an item tastes
  • How an object feels to your touch
  • How the environment feels, hot, damp, stifling, etc.

Look at your vision board to help you see why you are or should be doing something.

It helps motivate you when you are procrastinating on a step that will take you closer to achieving your goals.

A vision board helps you focus on what you want to achieve when you start to veer off-course.

Looking at your goals and intentions in a visual way helps you re-focus and motivate you.

Vision Board for Mindset

Mindset is probably one of the first steps to change when working toward a goal. Having the right mindset is important to get you through any tough times.

A vision board is an excellent place to showcase any affirmations you can read and say aloud daily.

Once you dream of something, you have to believe it will happen.

It helps to include phrases words, and affirmations on your vision board, that express who you want to be. Look at them daily or more often if you need a boost.

Your thoughts are what your life becomes.

Your thoughts are what you visualize every day so having positive thoughts and words on your vision board puts your in the right mindset to achieve those goals.

For example, if you have a goal of winning an award but you’re always thinking you always lose, looking at your vision board with a positive affirmation or word or image of you winning the award helps change that mindset.

Whenever you catch yourself with the negative thought, observe your vision board.

We live with constant mind chatter that can often support and promote any limiting beliefs we might have towards out goals.

That little voice in our head whines and prods constantly, telling you the endless ways you couldn’t possibly achieve your goals.

Visually seeing the positive words and seeing yourself, as achieving your goals, silences that voice. It helps you turn your limiting beliefs into can-do beliefs.

To allow your vision board work at changing your mindset, interact with it every day. Notice something each time you view it. See yourself in those images.

Feel the emotions of the words. Live the intention.

Each day live with the words and pictures stamped on your mind.

Use them to help you make the decisions about your life and career that get you closer to where you want to be.

Another part of mindset is to act as if you already have it. Dress for the job you want. Be self-assured even if you are insecure.

Wake up and be ready to make a difference as if you are already doing what you love even if you are stuck in a situation you hate.

Changing your mindset helps you eliminate any doubts you might be harboring over being worthy of your goals.

Using your vision board, concentrate on the strengths and abilities you have or can gain, to help you see you can do what you set your mind to.

Feel gratitude for everything on your vision board when you use it. Be grateful for the job your about to get, the home you will have, or the attitude you’re developing.

Your mindset is a big part of how you see yourself achieving your goals.

Looking at your vision board to help you get into the right mindset helps you begin believing you can reach your goals.

Keeping Track of Progress

It’s important to keep track of your goals, as well as when you achieve each one. Look at your vision board often. Document when you’ve reached a goal.

When you reach a goal, you should update your vision board. One way to do this is to replace the accomplished goal with an image of a new goal.

Another option is to leave white space on your board so you can add new goals.

Notice when you make progress toward your dreams. It will happen if you give it time. Pay attention and put in the effort to reach your goals and dreams.

Keep a vision board goals journal where you write down your thoughts and notice any signs that you’re moving forward.

Celebrate successful achievements when you do notice them. Even the small successes should be celebrated.  

Leo Babauta, the author of top personal development site Zenhabits.net encourages celebrating success as being important in motivating you towards a goal, saying, “Every little step along the way is a success — celebrate the fact that you even started!”

Why update your vision board?

There are many reasons why you might want to update your board besides reaching a milestone.

  1. Perhaps your goals changed. For example, your goal was to get married. Instead, you find yourself single and focusing more on your career. In this case, you want to remove images of wedding rings and beautiful wedding dress from your board as they are no longer part of your goal.
  2. Maybe your goal feels too big to accomplish in the time frame you set. In this case, it might be easier to set smaller goals that will eventually lead to the bigger goal. Create your vision board around these smaller goals. Just realize that this will push you from dreaming big back into thinking small.
  3. Your future is different for some reason. This is when something has changed in your life and there is no way to make that goal happen. Maybe your goal was to be the top wine expert in the country but found out you were allergic to grapes.
  4. You want to update or change your vision board when you gain more clarity on what you want to achieve. Maybe something made you see your goal in whole new way and you knew instantly what you wanted. Some of the things on your vision board needed changing to fit the new, clearer goal.
  5. You’re inspired to begin a new hobby or change your mindset in some way. Maybe you were inspired to do something, but you haven’t made it a goal, yet.

Keeping track of the progress on your goals or knowing when it’s time to change part of your goal can be seen by using your vision board each day.

Seeing the original goal enables you to see how close you are to achieving it.

Final Tips on Using Your Vision Board

Your vision board is meant to be an aid in helping you achieve your goals. Just creating it won’t magically make your dreams come true.

Use the following tips to guide you in using your vision board.

  • Look at your dream board and feel into the inspiration it provides. Take note of what you are feeling or sensing.
  • If possible, hold it in your hands to feel the energy from your intentions. Let the positive energy you put into creating it be absorbed.
  • Read the affirmations and inspirational words aloud every day. Reading them each day, out loud, reaffirms them in your mind.
  • Place your vision board somewhere prominent such as near your bed or your desk. Look at your vision board first thing in the morning and just before going to bed.
  • Feel gratitude as you start achieving your goals. Let the universe know you are grateful for what you have.
  • Visualize yourself actually living in the way you portray on your vision board. See yourself sitting in your new car, living in your new home, being a boss or having a trim body.
  • Acknowledge the changes you want and see happening. Realize the changes you want are part of the process.
  • Believe your goal has already happened. Thinking of them in the past tense, as already having happened makes them more concrete in your subconscious.
  • Keep your list of goals close to your vision board so you can review them every day. Your vision board images should align with your list of goals.
  • Keep a vision board journal for your feelings as you work on your goals. Keeping a journal helps you keep track of how you are feeling and if those feelings are in alignment to how you want to feel when you achieve your goal.
  • Hold yourself accountable for doing the work, taking action and reaching your goals. If you need to, get an accountability person to help you.
  • If your vision board has goals that are a part of your business or career, look at it often as you are doing any business planning or career growth changes.

Your vision board only works if you use it to work for your goals. Use these tips to maintain your forward momentum towards your ultimate best life.

Final Thoughts

A vision board is a powerful way to help you reach your goals. It’s a visual reminder of what you want to achieve.

It only works if you use it to help you reach your goals.

The act of creating a vision board helps you gain clarity.

Once you have that clarity you can create an action plan of smaller goals and steps you’ll need to take to reach your goal.

Using the vision board starts with displaying where you will see it every day. It can be on a wall in your office, in your bedroom or hung on the refrigerator.

A digital board can be set as your screensaver or home page that you see often.

Look at the vision board and visualize yourself having achieved everything on your board.

These images will become imprinted in your subconscious mind as if you’ve already achieved the goal.

Seeing your board everyday keeps them uppermost in your mind. This keeps you thinking about your goals regularly.

When you do this, you remain motivated to take action on your goals.

Remember, it’s your vision board and there is no right or wrong goal.

If a goal is outdated, achieved, no longer viable, or you simply aren’t passionate about pursuing it, then it’s time to replace it or create a new vision board.

Putting Thoughts into Action Worksheet

Your vision board is complete. Now it’s time to start putting it into action. Use this worksheet to help you take action on what you learned in the report.

Using the Vision Board

Where will you place your vision board so you can see it every day? Will it be hung on the wall or a digital one on your phone or desktop?

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What do you feel when you focus on imagining the details of what your life looks like when you reach your goals? Who is with you? What do you see, hear, smell? What is the weather like? What are you wearing?

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Inspired Action

What is your plan of action for this goal? What steps will you need to take to reach it?

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What are the monthly and daily steps you need to take to reach your goal? How can you organize them? Have you written them in the daily planner or calendar?

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Vision Board Focus

How are you using your vision board to keep you focused on your goals? How are you recognizing and celebrating the small steps you’ve reached?

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How does writing in a vision board journal affect your focus and motivation to achieve your goals? What do you see, feel, hear, or imagine about your goals?

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Vision Board Mindset

What affirmations are you using on your vision board to help you have the right mindset for achieving your goals? Do you look at them and read them often? Are you acting as if you already met your goal?

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What doubts is your vision board helping you overcome in achieving your goals? How can you use gratitude for your goals and the steps you need to take as a part of your vision board routine?

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Keeping Track of Progress

Are you celebrating achievements no matter how small? What and how?

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Does your vision board need to be updated? How? Why? How often?

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What other things can help you reach your goals? How?

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Putting Thoughts into Action Checklist

Your vision board is meant to be a tool you use to help you achieve your goals.

Use this checklist to remind you of things you need to double-check to ensure that you included or incorporated them in the finished version of your vision boards.

 Using the Vision Board

  • I’ve placed my Vison boards in a prominent place where I can see it daily.
  • I look at my board every day
  • My digital version is on my desktop screensaver and my smartphone home page
  • I feel the intentions of my vision board
  • I feel excited when I look at my vision board
  • I use my vision board as a reminder of my goals. I imagine the details
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Inspired Action Plan

  • Using my vision board as a guide, I have created a plan of action with the steps I need to take to reach my goals
  • I have broken those steps in to smaller steps that I can do daily
  • My outline for my goals includes all the steps for achieving my goals
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Vision Board Focus

  • I use my vision board to keep me focused on what I need to do
  • I look at my vision board and imagine what my life looks like
  • I spend time each day visualizing, affirming and believing my goals will happen
  • I stay focused on the big goal by celebrating the small steps or goals I achieve
  • My goals journal helps me get detailed about how I feel when I achieve my goal
  • I use my vision board to keep me on track when I veer off course
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Vision Board Mindset

  • My vision board helps me keep the right mindset
  • I read from my vision board my positive affirmations and phrases daily, out loud
  • I visualize my goals as already having been achieved
  • The vision board helps me eliminate doubt and self-limiting beliefs
  • I feel gratitude when use my vision board
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Track Your Progress

  • I use my vision board to enable me to assess my progress as well as identify what is working well and what I need to modify or remove.
  • I update my vision board to reflect changes, for example, when I reach or modify a goal.
  • I write and make documentations in my vision board journal to keep track of my progress and my feelings, which helps me to maintain my momentum.
  • I acknowledge and document any change I want to make and include as many details as possible.
  • I hold myself accountable for taking action to achieve my goals.
  • I have a list of supportive people I call when I have trouble and need a stern talk or someone to listen, actively assist me, or suggest resources and ideas.
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Putting Your Vision Board Together

“You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands – your own”. Mark Victor Hansen

Having goals is fundamental to success in whatever you do. Without them, they are just dreaming and wishing.

Having a visual representation of the things you want to become, have, or do helps you achieve your goals.

A vision board is a collage of images, words and other representations of what you want to become on a poster or bulletin board.

Creating a vision board of your goals is a fun and creative way to gain clarity on what you want and transform them into reality.

We become what we think about. Our lives are created from our thoughts.

Instead of thinking about what we don’t want, a vision board helps us place our attention on what we want to bring into our life.

Before you begin creating your perfect vision board there are a few things to do first. Discover what a vision board is and can do.

  • A vision board makes your goals visible.
  • When you get sidetracked, vision boards get you back on track by reminding you of your goal as well as what you want to achieve.
  • Vision boards keep you on the path towards what you want.
  • A vision board allows you to create your own purpose in life.
  • A vision board helps you keep focused on why you are doing something.

The most important thing is to have a clear goal of what you want to achieve. What do you want to be or change?

This guide focuses on the general how-to steps to creating your vision board.

It’s meant to be guide that sparks your own creative flow for a vision board that resonates with your goals and life. Let’s get started!

Step One: Set Your Intention

“Vision boards absolutely work; you have to have a vision and a plan to execute so that every step moves you in that vision.” – Oprah Winfrey

Setting your goals and intentions is the first step in creating your vision board. However, you need to have to have purpose for your vision board.

Start with an intention. This is a good time to dream and contemplate your options. Close your eyes and imagine your life as how you want it to be one year from now.

Where are you? What do you see, feel, hear, taste, or smell? Who is with you? Are all of your goals achieved? How are you celebrating your success?

Now set an intention for your vision board. What goal or goals are you going to focus on in your vision board?

What intentions and feelings do you want your vision board to remind you of?

Here are some ideas for your vision board to help you begin:

  • Health Goals – Do you want to lose a certain amount of weight, run a 5K race,  learn to scuba dive, or quit smoking? What are your related feelings?
  • Education Goals – Are there courses you want to take to increase your knowledge or skills? Is there a certificate or degree you want to earn? What emotions or attitudes are complementary to these?
  • Career Goals – Is there a position you want to get? Do you need more education to advance in your career? Is changing careers a goal? What are your feelings?
  • Family Goals – Do you want to start a family, get married, resolve broken relationships, or become closer to your family? What feelings are involved?
  • Organizing Goals – What do you need to organize? Is decluttering a goal? Identify and describe the related emotions you feel.
  • Travel Goals – Do you want to go to a different country, a national destination, or a local attraction? What emotions are evoked when you think of your trips?
  • Home Goals – Do you want to move to a new home? Is remodeling a goal? Do you want to decorate specific rooms? What feelings or mindsets would help?
  • Priority Goals – What top priorities do you want to set for your life? What values, mindsets, people, habits, behaviors, items, events, and activities need more of your focus? What feelings or attitudes come to your mind?
  • Relaxation Goals – Do you need to slow down, become more spiritual, or connect with your inner-self better? What feelings and intentions do you relate to these?
  • Finance Goals – How much money do you want to make, save, allot to debt reduction, and spend? What emotions and intentions come to mind?
  • Best-Life Goals – What does your best life look like? Are you buying land, writing a best-seller, caring for animals, living in a high-rise apartment, or traveling? What feelings, attitudes, and mindsets do you associate with these?
  • Big, Exciting, Scary Goals – What are you scared of or afraid to do? What makes you nervous or worry? What have you always wanted to do, be, or have? What intentions and feelings can complement these goals?
  • Pending-Dreams Goals – Do you want to start a business, become a nurse, learn to weld, start a band, fix your own car, or win a dance contest? What intentions and mindsets could help? What feelings do you relate to these?
  • Character & Attitude Goals – What characteristics or behaviors do you want to develop or change? Look on the positive side of life, being more compassionate? How can these help you with your intention?
  • Make a Difference – How can you make the world a better place? Include specific acts of kindness, how you can volunteer, and causes to donate to.

When setting your intentions, consider how achieving your goal will make you feel or how you want to feel.

You can highlight this on your vision board using words or images that give you that particular feeling.

Use important words that you want to live by and ones that will describe your life.

Other things to consider for your vision board might include:

  • Books & Publications – What books do you want to read, related to the board’s purpose, goals, and intentions?
  • Mantras – What short sentences or self-talk phrases inspire or motivate you?
  • Songs – What meaningful songs do you catch yourself humming? What lyrics can you relate to?
  • Quotes & Affirmations – What quotes and affirmations resonate with you and inspire you to succeed?

Setting your intentions or purpose for your vision board will help you determine what images, words or other things you want to include. Don’t rush this step.

Take your time and get a very clear picture of what you want to achieve.

Your goals are what will keep you motivated and driven to do the work to succeed reaching them.

Step Two: Gather Your Materials

This is the fun part! Gather what you’ll need to begin creating your vision.

Of course, the types of supplies you need will depend on the type of vision board you are creating. Let’s look at those options first.

Types of Vision Boards

Vision boards can be either tangible or digital. Both types have their advantages and drawbacks.

The one that works best for you depends on your personal preferences.

Since you want this to be easy and effective, it also depends on whether you are more of a “hands-on” type of person or a “tech-loving” person.

Let’s look at both types of vision boards to help you decide which one you want and for which board.

Physical Vision Boards

A tangible or physical vision board is anything you can hold and touch.

This can be poster board, a large piece of cardboard, a corkboard, dry-erase board, magnetic board, or a large picture frame where you use the backing to add images to.

Really, it could be anything that you could type up or glue images to and hang it on your wall or tape to your mirror.

  • The easiest and cheapest way is to use a spiral-bound notebook. If you get one with sections that has dividers with pockets, you’ll have additional ways to keep related things like sticky notes and printed images organized.
  • Another option is to use a nice 3-ring binder, scrapbook, or journal for your vision board. Depending on the kind you get, you may have optional, additional page types, such as photo pages, or matching accessories.

Digital Vision Boards

A digital vision board is one that you use online where you can keep images, such as Pinterest or Google images.

You can also use a digital device or computer programs to keep digital information and images.

  • Create your vision board in a pdf doc you can view on all your devices. Use Word, Pages, or Google Docs to create your board with images and texts and convert to a PDF. Another option, if you are creating a life goals board an option is to create a small book that can be printed on demand. Shutterfly.com and lulu.com are good for one-off manufacturing of your book.
  • You can also create a vision board by creating a collage using Canva, PicMonkey, PicStitch, Photoshop, or a Trello board. To create your digital vision board, you’ll create a collage.

For example, in Canva, create a new design, select a collage layout that will fit your needs, then upload your photos into the frames on the collage.

Add text words, affirmations, or quotes for inspiration as well.

  • Slide presentations can be created using software such as PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Drive Slides. Each slide is a separate idea, using as many slides as you need. Play the slideshow daily or whenever you need a lift.
  • Create a vision board video using YouTube’s Creator Studio. Access it from your user profile settings. Simply insert your images and video clips, type in the text and save. You can edit or view it anytime. Turn your PowerPoint presentation into a .mov file and upload it to YouTube. Change settings to “Private” or “Unlisted” so it can’t be seen by the public.
  • Use a blogging platform to create an online version of your vision board. Use WordPress.com, Blogger.com or any other platform to create vision board websites that are versatile. You can control the content and update easily. Most platforms allow for privacy password protected settings to keep it out of the public view.
  • For digital vision boards, you can use your own photos or search for images on royalty free websites like Unsplash, Pixabay, and Pexels.

Vision Board Apps

Vision Board apps are a type of software, which is usually downloaded to use on a digital device or computer.

Depending on the app, it may be used to create a vision board on your phone, tablet, computer, or other digital device.

Some apps may simply give you additional tools to use for your board. A few apps you may want to investigate  include:

  • Dream Cloud app (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dreamcloud-goal-setting-vision/) is a vision board creator for the iOS platform
  • Dream It Alive App (https://www.dreamitalive.com/ ) is an online vision board creator.
  • Corkulous App (https://www.corkulous.com/) is another iOS app for creating your vision board with an old-school feel to it.
  • Hay House Vision Board App (https://www.hayhouse.com/hay-house-vision-board-app) is a free vision board app.

Your vision board is about the subject content you add, rather than the type of board you choose to use.

Use whatever fits with your knowledge, skills, and preferences, as well as what works best for you.

Getting Ready To Create

Now that you know about the types of boards and your options, it’s time to get creative.

Create a quiet workspace in your home, where you have room to spread out all your supplies. A large table or the floor will work best. 

Put on your favorite music, light candles, burn essential oil, or things that enable you to feel comfortable and relaxed.

This helps you visualize and tap into what you desire.

Begin by creating a list of images you want to include that represents your emotions, relationships, education, career, skills, location, or anything else to make your vision board resonate with you.

What words, quotes, or inspirational phrases do you want to include? They should describe your thoughts, feelings, or images. Make a list of these as well.

Gather Supplies

What do you need to create your board? Digital images? Printed images? Whichever you need, begin searching for them and saving them now.

With a printed vision board, you will need items such as:

Image Supplies

  • Magazines
  • Old books
  • Printed images
  • Sketches
  • Printed words
  • Glue
  • Tape
  • Pins or magnets
  • Scissors

Board Supplies

  • corkboard
  • poster
  • board paper
  • journal

Writing Supplies

  • Pencils
  • Colored pencils
  • Pens
  • Colored pens
  • Markers
  • Paints
  • Crayons

Selecting Images

Next, you are going to find images that represent your goals. Go ahead and cut them out but don’t attach them to your board yet.

Just find images and words that you like.

As you browse through magazines, on Pinterest, or wherever you look for images, let your emotions guide you on what to choose.

Find images that speak to you.

These can be feelings such as joy, tangible things such as a new home, or maybe an experience such as a book signing of your best-selling book.

If you are having trouble finding exactly what you are looking for, it’s time to get creative and make your own.

Print images you find online, sketch your own or use words on colorful paper that express what you want.

Add inspiring words, quotes, or positive affirmations as well. Use the present tense, print of statements like you are already doing them.

For example, “I’m living in my dream home!” or “I’m so thankful to be making $100,000 every year.”

Look for words that express your desired feeling such as love, success, freedom, fulfilled, creative, peaceful.

You can print these out from a word processing document or find the words in magazines to cut out.

You can also create a statement of your goal to paste onto your board. Use a fun font in bold, bright color so it stands out among your images.

Vision Board Embellishment

Now that you have the basics for your board, why not embellish it with other fun things that make it personal for you.

You want anything that inspires and motivates you on your board. This can be practically anything.

Here are some ideas to get you started:

Basics

  • Hand drawn sketches
  • Your own photographs
  • Your word of the year
  • Famous quotes
  • Scriptures

Embellishments

  • Stickers
  • Scrapbook paper
  • Textures
  • Tarot/oracle cards
  • Color swatches
  • Posters
  • Business cards
  • Graphics
  • Cards, envelopes (Use to tuck in little things like lace or four-leaf clover)
  • Calendars
  • Crystals
  • People who inspire you
  • Maps
  • Tickets
  • Brochures
  • Reiki symbols
  • Crystals
  • Lists
  • Dried flowers
  • Postcards
  • Book covers
  • Calendars
  • Doodles
  • Souvenirs

Affirmations, Mantras And Positive Words

“Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled.” — Neville Goddard

Include positive self-affirmations or mantras that relate to your intention. Here are twenty examples of affirmations you can use:

  1. Today is the year I will be unstoppable.
  2. You can’t have a rainbow without a little rain.
  3. The best way to get things done is to simply act.
  4. At the end of the day who you are is completely up to you.
  5. You can.
  6. I use my failures as a stepping-stone.
  7. My dreams are happening now.
  8. I live a positive life.
  9. I can reach any goal.
  10. I have all I need to succeed.
  11. I am confident in my abilities.
  12. I greet everyday with excitement.
  13. I am amazing.
  14. I am becoming more organized every day.
  15. I am organized in every area of my life.
  16. I am healthy.
  17. I am free of pain.
  18. Today I will change my life.
  19. I am (loved, confident, strong, beautiful, successful.)
  20. I am open and ready to receive abundance in all areas of my life.

Everything on your vision board should represent how your life looks when you reach your goal. Find images and words in magazines and online that resonate with you.

Step Three: Put It Together

When you think you have enough, spread out all your images, words and sayings. Look at each of them. Without overthinking it, which relate the most with your goal?

Go through the images, words, quotes, phrases, and other inspirational pieces. Edit out any that don’t seem right. Tap into how they make you feel.

For example, if your intention is to be the healthiest version of yourself and your feeling for that intention is wellbeing, your find images of people working out at the gym, eating salad or air brushed models.

However, as you review the images these make you feel like you aren’t good enough.

This is opposite of how you want to feel. Therefore, in this case those images shouldn’t be on your vision board.

Instead, find ones that actually summon the feeling you want of wellbeing. This could be images of waterfalls, flowers, or nature or of happy people.

Once you have all your images chosen that feel right for you intention, it’s time to lay your images on your board.

Arrange the ones you’ve chosen to keep on your vision board. Don’t attach them yet.

There is no right or wrong way to lay them out. It’s kind of like puzzle where you trust your intuition on what looks right.

The important thing to remember is to make it yours. Do what makes you happy. If you want to you can put words on top of images.

You can lay them out in different ways, including:

  • Scattering them randomly around your board. This option works well for a single goal, such as a health goal. Simply place the images and words on the board.
  • Sectioning by category. Divide your board into sections. Then label each section with a life area. For example, home, health, finance, mind, and career. You can even make each section a different color.
  • Using a Template. There are many different template options you can use to create your vision board. They work for both printed boards and digital programs.
  • Organized by type, goal, or some other way. In this type, you would organize your images in way that fits into the goal. For example, if you have multiple goals for a general board, organizing your images by specific goals in a certain order might work for you. Like a do-this-in-order-for-this-to-happen organization type.

Once everything is arranged the way you want it, start attaching them. Use glue, magnets, push-pins, or whatever your medium calls for.

Once the images and words are attached, you can attach any embellishments you want.

Putting your vision board together should feel satisfying and inspiring. Take your time and have fun bringing your intentions to physical form.

There are no rules to a vision board, though, so you can’t mess it up. It’s your vision on your terms.

Final Thoughts

Your vision board is the roadmap to your future. Putting it all together should be fun and rewarding.

Setting your intentions and purpose for your vision board is the first step to creating a board that will inspire you as you work toward your goals.

The visuals you choose should resonate with you and your goals. They can be images from magazines, printed or sketched.

Images are just one of the things that can be included in your vision board.

Words, sayings, quotes, and affirmations are all helpful things to put on your board.

They can evoke a feeling, inspire you to meet a specific goal and keep you motivated when you veer off course.

The supplies to create your vision board are basic tools you probably already own-magazines, scissors, glue or tape, and markers.

Of course, you can dress up your board with embellishments and anything that points you towards your goal.

The vision board is something that can be created using paper and images or it can be created digitally to be seen on all your devices.

Once you have created your vision board the next step is to hang it somewhere where you will see it every day. Don’t put it away or hide it behind your desk.

Instead, hang it on your wall or refrigerator so you see it often.

If your need or want, you can modify your vision board throughout the year. Life changes and so should your board.

It should reflect who you want to become and what you want to achieve. Like life, it’s a work in progress.

Putting Your Vision Board Together Worksheet

The task of creating your vision board can seem overwhelming with everything you need to do to create it. Use this worksheet as a guide to take the action on what you learned in the report.

Set Your Intention

Do you understand how a vision board helps you reach your goals? Have you set clear goals and know the purpose of your vision board? What is your intention?

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Think about where you want to be in one year. Where are you? What do you see, feel, hear, taste, or smell? Who is with you? Are all of your goals achieved? How are you celebrating your success?

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Which areas are you working on goals for your vision board: Health, education, career, family, organizing your home, travel, home, priorities, finances, meditation, your big exciting scary goals? Dreams you want to accomplish or your best life goals?

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What do you want to accomplish, change, do, be, or have? What books do you want to read? Where do you want to make a difference in the world? How do you want to change your attitude?

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Gather Your Materials

What medium will you be using for your vision board- physical or digital? Are you using notebook, paper board or some other type of physical medium? If it will be digital which app or software are you using?

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Where will you be working on your board? On the floor, the dining room table? What images are you including that represent your emotions, relationships, education, career, skills, location, etc.? What words, quotes, phrases or affirmations are you including?

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What supplies do you need to create your board? Magazines or other types of images? What type of board are you using? Glue, tape or push pins? Scissors, pens, or markers? If creating a digital image, have you found images online?

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Which images speak to you emotionally in a good way? Which words can you find from your list for your board? What else do you want to include on your board? Do you have a favorite quote or affirmation you want to use?

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Put It Together

Which images, words and other items most resonate with your goal? Edit out any that don’t feel right.

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How will you arrange your items on your board? Will it be organized or randomly scattered? Are you using a template or making a grid? Are you having fun or stressing about it? How are you attaching your images?

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Final Thoughts

Where will you hang or keep your vision board so you see it every day? Do you need to make changes or add to it as you achieve your goals?

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Putting Your Vision Board Together Checklist

The task of creating your vision board can seem overwhelming with everything you need to do to create it. Use this checklist to remind you of the steps you need to take and what you need to remember as you create your vision board.

Set Your Intention & Goals

I have set these intentions and goals for the vision board.

  • Health Goals & Intentions
  • Education Goals & Intentions
  • Career Goals & Intentions
  • Family Goals & Intentions
  • Organizing Goals & Intentions
  • Travel Goals & Intentions
  • Home Goals & Intentions
  • Priority Goals & Intentions
  • Relaxation Goals & Intentions
  • Finance Goals & Intentions
  • Best Life Goals & Intentions
  • Big, Exciting Scary Goals & Intentions
  • Pending-Dreams Goals & Intentions
  • Character & Attitude Goals & Intentions
  • Make a Difference Goals & Intentions
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Gather Your Materials

I have decided on the mediums to use create my vision boards. They include:

  • Physical such as a corkboard or poster board
  • A notebook or scrapbook or journal
  • Digital accessed online
  • Through a word document or POD
  • Through a program like Canva, PicMonkey, Photoshop
  • A slide presentation or video
  • On a blogging platform
  • Through an app like Dream Coud or Dream It Alive
  • I have gathered magazines or found images online at sites.
  • I have set the mood and workspace to create the vision boards.
  • My images, words, and quotes represent my goals.
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I have gathered the following supplies to create my vision board.

Vision Board Supplies

  • Corkboard
  • Poster
  • Board Paper
  • Journal
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Images Supplies

  • Magazines
  • Old books
  • Printed images
  • Sketches
  • Printed words
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Hangers & Fasteners

  • Glue
  • Tape
  • Push pins
  • Magnets
  • String
  • Hooks
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Cutting Tools

  • Scissors
  • X-Acto Knives
  • Paper Cutter
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Writing Instruments

  • Markers
  • Paints
  • Colored pens
  • Colored pencils
  • Crayons
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  • I have browsed magazines, online and other sources for images that resonate with me about my goal. They express my feeling such as love, frustration, etc.

I have opted to add the following embellishments:

  • Hand drawn sketches
  • Your photographs
  • Famous quotes
  • Scriptures
  • Stickers
  • Scrapbook paper
  • Textures
  • Tarot/oracle cards
  • Color swatches
  • Posters
  • Business cards
  • Graphics
  • Mantras
  • Cards, envelopes (memorabilia)
  • Calendars
  • Crystals
  • Maps
  • Tickets
  • Brochures
  • Reiki symbols
  • Crystals
  • Lists
  • Dried flowers
  • Postcards
  • Book covers
  • Calendars
  • Souvenirs
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I have printed out affirmations I want to include they include these image titles:

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I’ve edited out these images that didn’t work well or feel right.

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I’ve attached the images to my board in these ways:

  • Scattering or random method
  • Sectioning by category
  • Template
  • Organized by type, goal or some other way
  • Created a collage using a digital template
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I’ve displayed my vision board where I can see it daily. After trial and error, I’ve decided to display them in these areas:

Good Rooms & Locations – Good Reasons

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Wrong Rooms or Areas & Reasons

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