Vision Boarding to Manifest Your Dreams
“New year, new me.” “I’m gonna make my dreams a reality.” “This is my year!”
If you said any of these things, chances are you use Pinterest, Instagram, or some digital platform to constantly save the things that click with your version of success or #lifegoals. Of course, if you’ve never said these things, there’s still a chance that you want to know how so many of your peers or faves to follow online are living out their biggest dreams in the same timeline as you are.
Whether you believe in manifestation or are skeptical, I challenge you to create a vision board this week and see how much your life changes.
Wait, what is a vision board?
Vision board (noun): a collage of images and words representing a person’s wishes or goals, intended to serve as inspiration or motivation. - defined by Oxford Languages.
In other words, it’s you painting the picture of what your year looks like, especially when it comes to your goals. Anything from the clothes in your closet, who you surround yourself with, your dream job, and where you travel.
You know, unless you do not dream of labor, and then it’s all about the life you want to live!
Vision boards typically include print magazine clippings, photos, quotes, or other text collaged in a way that makes sense for you and placed on the poster and framed (or not), a canvas, or as a digital wallpaper so you can see it daily.
Photo courtesy of Ewan Robertson on Unsplash.
The Many Ways to Create a Vision Board
If you know us by now, you know that we won’t ever tell you “it’s the only way.” But, honestly, that sounds like that one clown in S3:E23 of Adventure Time. If you know, you know. I can hear her laughter now.
I’m not going to post the GIF for those afraid of clowns, but if you’ve watched the show, I am Finn screaming “nooooooo” as I barrel through this notion that there’s one way to do it or anything and pave new lanes.
So, I want to give you every possible way I can think of and find online so that everyone can find their way, or create something entirely new, especially for all the neurodivergent people out there.
Use Pinterest, Canva, or Adobe Creative Cloud products to create a digital vision board. Less mess, plus you can take it with you everywhere!
Go for a traditional vision board with scissors, glue sticks, magazine clippings, and arrange everything before gluing it down. Great because you can put it on poster board, a canvas, or place it on paper that will ultimately go in the frame and hang it so you can see it daily.
Create an entirely new method by using paints, graphite pencils, or other art mediums on non-traditional surfaces to make something unique to you. I have never done this, but it sounds like fun even as I type it out!
Now, if none of these sounds like your jam, that’s okay. You can still envision your future without creating a vision board. It’s called “future journaling,” and the Holistic Psychologist has a whole article right here on this. Great for all you writers out there.
If all of this feels a little scary to do alone, consider this:
Throw a Vision Board Party!
Vision board parties are exactly what they sound like; you get together with other people (virtually or safely in a group) who want to goal-set, envision the future and create together. Jamila of Just Jamila does a great job of going over what supplies you may need and her ideal motivational playlist for these types of parties for college students.
What are your thoughts on vision boarding now that you know a little more?
