All my life I wanted to be somebody, I see now I should’ve been more specific – Lily Tomlin
Inspired by Lily Tomlin and a Facebook post by my fab friend and client Dr Darcy Sterling, this New Year’s blog is all about How To Create Your Vision Board.
This is one of my favorite activities. Arts & Crafts with a purpose. It’s likely whatever you are wearing started on a designers mood board.
Many people create actual, physical boards using pictures from magazines, glue stick, glitter and sharpies.
Some, like Dr Darcy, create their vision boards in a notebook.
Others create their boards online. Pinterest is vision board heaven. They offer samples.
I do a combination of all three. I create a yearly vision board online and save it in dropbox so I can look at it from any device. I also print it and keep it in a file folder I carry around with me and paste it into a notebook to track my boards from year to year (some things take longer to manifest than others. Still working on the beach house.)
As cheerleader-in-chief I am here to tell you: There’s no wrong way to create your Vision Board.
Still, I wanted to know what the experts from Jack Canfield to Oprah had to say. I got 31,200,000 results to “How To Create A Vision Board.”
Everyone agrees:
1. Identify your goals.
2. Articulate those goals with words and pictures
3. Look at your vision board regularly. Be inspired to action.
Christine Kane – who has amazing SEO – offers specific tips in these 3 categories: I Know What I Want, The Opening & Allowing (Not Sure What I Want) and Theme (i.e. marriage, career, event). I like that she’s not one-vision-fits all.
Jack Canfield suggest keeping your Vision Board on your nightstand to spend time visualizing before bed and when you first wake up in the morning.
WikiHow breaks it down into 12 steps.
Lucinda Cross warns against making these mistakes:
-that making a mistake is a mistake
-being embarrassed to set big goals
-putting things on your board with no intention of working towards them
Many of you are pros at the Vision Board so please be generous with your tips and comments below.
Happy 2015!!
(image from www.thepersonalfreedomproject.com)
2 Responses
LOVE vision boards…working on my 2015 board now. 🙂 Thanks for the tips and inspiration!
Great Blog Topic! Make sure the visions you choose to reflect the goals you want to achieve connect with you on an emotional level… connect the feeling words to what the pictures mean to you. Looking at your pictures will feed your mind to create the ideas with cause the “Thinking”, thinking causes the feeling, feeling causes the action, and you will begin to act in a certain way that should be in alignment with your goals which will get you to your results.