I’m in the process of making my 2021 Vision Board. Vision Boards have become important tools in my self-development over the years. It’s visually putting your wish list together as a creative and beautiful landscape that you look at every day to remind yourself of the goals that you want to achieve. One of my favorite quotes is “Wish it, Dream it, Do it”!
I actually make a few different kinds of vision boards. I usually make a poster vision board that I hang in my office but I also do a stripped down version in a bullet journal. I’ve been making vision boards for years and let me tell you, they really work! Here’s how to manifest what you want making a vision board.
What is a Vision Board?
A vision board is a very effective visual manifesting tool. It is a collection of images that are closely related or exact to what you are trying to manifest into your reality. The images you put on your board should inspire you and get you excited to manifest them.
To make a vision board that works, follow these five simple steps:
- Ask Yourself What You Really Want
- Get Your Vision Board Supplies
- Choose the Right Pictures
- Placement is Key
- Create the Actual Vision Board
A vision board is without question one of the most important law of attraction tools. I am a big fan of vision boards or so-called dream boards. It is not only a precious visualization tool; my vision board helped me to manifest all my dreams.
Maybe you already have a vision board on your wall, but you want to know how to make it perfect and how to manifest your wishes faster and more efficiently? Or the vision board, as a law of attraction tool, is entirely new to you, but you finally want to manifest all your dreams?
Personally, I would say that my vision board is one of the most important factors in my success. Over the years I’ve been wondering how to perfect my vision board and made some exciting discoveries.
My Vision Board helped me to become the person I am today!
Step by Step Guide to the Perfect Vision Board
1) ASK YOURSELF WHAT YOU REALLY WANT
Before you can even begin the actual process of implementing your vision board, you need to ask yourself some critical questions. One of them should be what do you really want?
With a vision board, it is crucial that you get 100% clarity here. This is a really powerful visualization tool, and you don’t want to attract the wrong things into your life, right?
Of course, you can, or should, evaluate your vision board on a regular basis and adapt it to new circumstances.
Nevertheless, it is important to visualize exactly the things that are important to you at this time.
A good exercise to find out what you want is to take an empty sheet of paper and just write down everything that comes to mind when you think about your ideal life.
Here you can also be a little bit selfish; it is your dream, it should represent your ideal life. So it doesn’t matter if this big dream you have is not compatible with your family life or your job situation.
If this ONE big dream is exactly what you want, a solution will be found anyway.
You should then prioritize this list. It’s better to limit yourself to 5 to 10 points on the Vision Board, depending on the size.
A vision board should be very focused and not just a hodgepodge of things you’d like to attract into your life.
This makes it much easier to prioritize the points on your list. For example, you can divide your goals into topics like career, family/relationship, health, or your dream house, etc. When you have the most important goals on your list, write to each one, why you want to achieve this.
For example, you may have written at first: I want more money. When you ask yourself the question of “why”, however, you may notice that you want more money so that you can travel more often and see the world.
In this case, what do you think would have a stronger effect as a picture on your vision board, a bundle of hundred dollar bills, or something that symbolizes traveling? Definitely the latter.
2) GET YOUR SUPPLIES, WHAT DO YOU NEED FOR YOUR PERFECT VISION BOARD?
There are many different ways to create a vision board, but for the sake of simplicity, we are talking about a vision board in the conventional sense, where you present your goals and wishes in the form of pictures or written words, by sticking them to an empty canvas.
For this you will need the following supplies:
- An empty canvas.
- Glue
- Markers, preferably in different colors
- Scissors
- Magazines with pictures or a printer
- Another way is to create a board directly on Pinterest and pin all of your images to it.
3) CHOOSE THE RIGHT PICTURES
Find images that symbolically represent, the desired goal. If you have a picture that triggers a strong emotion, it is a good sign. Sometimes it also helps if you use words in addition to the pictures.
4) CREATE THE VISION BOARD
Once you’ve decided on the right pictures, it’s time to bring them together into a collage and stick them on your vision board. Where it is difficult to express the desired outcome in pictures, use words. Maybe you want to write a suitable quote or affirmations. You can do this either as a printout or write directly on the canvas, with some markers.
5) THE RIGHT PLACEMENT IS KEY
Now it’s time to find a place for your new dream board. I recommend you to choose a location where you walk by regularly or a location where you sit next to it often, but that is also somehow private. You should see your goals often, and above all, you should be able to visualize them consciously (and subconsciously) on a regular basis.
At my home, the vision board hangs in my office space where I look at it as I’m working, talking on the phone or on zoom calls.
How to Work With a Vision Board
Every time you walk past your new board, your dreams and goals will be memorized, and the great thing about it is that it works subconsciously. However, your vision board is a very powerful tool, and you can (and should) also consciously use it for visualization exercises as often as possible. Your vision board will help you to re-focus on your goals and of course be grateful for the things you have already achieved.
Imagine yourself already having manifested all of the things on your board. Think about them AS IF they are already your reality.
If you like, just get creative with your vision board, the more fun you have, the better it is.
Here’s a tip: photograph your vision board, and you always have it with you on your mobile phone.
