5 Ways Vision Boards Help You Reach Your Goals

Do you set goals for yourself, either in your personal life or for your business? If not, how do you know you’re growing or making progress? When was the last time you allowed yourself to daydream about the type of life you want? What is your WHY, the reason behind all the long hours you spend on your business?

Creating a vision board has become a popular activity in recent years, especially as the New Year approaches and people think about the past year and the New Year’s resolutions they want to keep. A vision board is simply one tool that helps you visualise your dreams and your goals.

How so, you ask? Let’s explore the ways…

1. Vision boards make you focus on what’s important to you
Whether you combine a personal vision board with a professional one or keep them both separate, thinking about what you want in life or in business forces you to prioritise what’s important. Do you want to buy your first house or move to a warmer climate? Putting a photo of your dream location by the beach will inspire you to work harder and not undercut your prices. If you want to move, you alone can make that happen and you’ll make better business decisions based on that desire to move.

2. Visualisation stimulates the creative side of your brain
Placing your vision board in sight of your desk or computer serves as a daily reminder of what you want to achieve. Some believe keeping it open by your nightstand helps stimulate your subconscious before you go to bed, which makes you motivated upon waking. With your creativity soaring, keep a notebook handy to jot down any ideas you have for finding new sales and team members.

3. Focusing on goals makes you recognise new resources or opportunities
Visualising yourself living in a warmer climate (or whatever your primary goal is) will motivate you to work towards that goal but you’ll also notice new opportunities or resources which can lead you to reaching your goal. These resources may have always been present but now that you’re focused on your goal, you will see them in a new light: as a way to help you reach that intended goal.

4. Break out of your comfort zone by stating a big, scary goal
Are you stuck in a rut because you’re afraid to break out of your comfort zone? Acknowledging big goals – as scary and outrageous as they may be – will help you step out and take on new challenges, all in the name of reaching that scary goal. If your goal is to speak in front of an audience of 5,000 at your favourite conference, then you’ll start to see more opportunities for smaller speaking engagements. These smaller gigs will give you lots of practice and build your name recognition so when the organisers of your favourite conference advertise they’re looking for speakers, you’ll be well prepared to submit your name.

5. Seeing a big goal forces you out of the daydream and into action
Nothing happens without some action on your part. Vision boards are not magic tricks; they are instead a tool that spurs us into action because we finally know what we want out of life. Visualise your ideal life then approach each day with action steps which will lead you toward that ideal life.

Aside from these reasons, creating vision boards can be very relaxing and a fun family activity. So grab some glue and some old magazines and start daydreaming!

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What is a vision board?

Making a vision board sounds like a good idea. But it sounds like a lot of work, too. Am I right? (it really isn’t) Don’t put it off any longer!

To draw more of what you want into your life and ensure your vision board gets made, throw a vision board party (or join my online one). As someone who has attended and hosted many vision board parties), I can totally say that these get-togethers are a great way to define your best life, while helping others realise their dreams. They’re lots of fun, too!

Whether you’re making boards with friends, family or kids — follow these vision board party tips for an inspirational and entertaining event.

What is a vision board

A vision board is a collage that uses the law of attraction to draw more of what you want into your life and helps you realise what and what you don’t need in your life to make these goals happen. Vision boards can focus on something specific like career, love life, or the upcoming year. Or, you can make a board that encompasses your general life intentions. These are great things to get kids involved with, a perfect activity for a rainy day.

To make a vision board that will help you achieve your goals, first cut pictures and phrases out of magazines that represent your desires and goals. You can also print images from websites or include your own photos in the collage. Next, glue the images and words onto a canvas frame and place it somewhere you can see it on a regular basis. (Mine is hanging in my office.) Then look at it daily, remember what you have promised yourself, find new opportunities that will help them manifest and wait for the magic to happen!

Why host a vision board party

Throwing a vision board party motivates you to set aside the time needed to create a vision board to draw positive things into your life. Plus, you will have more magazines from which to select your images and phrases. And it’s a great excuse to get friends or family together!

How to plan a vision board party

When planning your vision board party, keep the number of attendees to a manageable number. I suggest inviting six to ten friends, or however many can comfortably fit around your kitchen or dining room table. Be sure not to invite any Debbie Downers to the shindig, either. You don’t need that kind of energy messing up everyone’s vision boards.

My advice is to skip paper invitations and just send a text, messenger or email invite. The point is to de-stress your life, not add more unneeded tasks. In your messages, you should request a few things. Why not ask each guest to bring a stack of old magazines and their own pair of scissors to keep your own costs down.

What to buy for your vision party

• A bunch of glue sticks.

• Lots of pairs of scissors and a pair of left-handed scissors for the lefties in your life.

• One canvas per person

• Snacks and drinks to share (lots of sugary treats to keep your energy levels high).

• Extra magazines.

• For extra flair, get some stick-on poster letters, shapes, sparkles or phrases.

When to host your party

The start of a new year (and new moon) is a wonderful time to throw a vision board party. Or, you could make boards to celebrate a birthday, graduation or other momentous life change. You do not need to wait for a specific reason. Any time is a good time to get together with friends or family to focus on life goals and happiness during a vision board party! Why not host one as a works team event?

Remember that food and drinks are often the focal point of a typical party, but the main goal of a vision board party is to create a positive physical representation of what you and your guests want out of life. To keep the focus on the boards, steer clear of hosting your party during mealtimes. Instead, choose a late morning or mid-afternoon start time.

Food and drink suggestions

Since hands will be busy flipping through magazines, cutting out images, and gluing things onto poster boards, stick with simple snacks that don’t make a lot of mess. Suggestions include cheese and crackers, veggies and dip, a fruit plate, non-greasy crisps, cookies or muffins. For a festive party with adult attendees, you may want to serve bucks fizz for a morning party or wine and beer at a later party. No matter the age of attendees, it’s always a good idea to have some fun non-alcoholic drinks on hand like sparkling water, juice and craft sodas. Put drinks in iced buckets so guests can serve themselves. To simplify things further for you as the host, you might ask everyone to bring a starter, dessert or drink to share instead.

What to do at your vision board party

To kick off your vision board party, start with introductions and intentions. Go around the table and have all attendees state their name and what they hope to achieve with their vision board. For example, the primary purposes for my latest vision board were to find more: work-life balance, connection with my kids, time in nature, healthy living and, of course, travel.

After setting intentions, get to work. Clip those magazines to pieces. Meanwhile, eat, drink and be merry with your fellow vision board makers!

How to make a vision board

I suggest laying out a general design for your board before you start gluing. You might also want to put a strong image of your central intention in the middle of your board. My own image was of a girl dressed up as wonder woman! For me, this represents my need to help and support many people through my various coaching and mentoring sessions and courses.

You should also leave some white space. This gives room to add additional images as you find them. Plus the white space allows room for serenity on your board. If there is too much chaos, you might just draw chaos to your life!

Be sure to paste everything onto the poster boards AT THE PARTY! At my first vision board party, some of my friends had to leave early and took their clippings and boards home separately. Of course, they intended to glue the pictures to their poster boards. That was years ago and I know at least one friend who has never finished her vision board.

Tips for hosting a vision board party with kids

Making vision boards with kids is a wonderful way to help children focus on being positive. This activity can also give kids a sense of empowerment over how they want to live their lives. Without guidance, children may look at this as merely an opportunity to make a pretty collage or they might just cut out a lot of images of material things like toys and candy, instead of focusing on what truly matters to them. When hosting a vision board party with children, you may need to help kids define what types of things they want to paste to their boards and assist them to find appropriate pictures.

Ask questions to help kids understand what kinds of things they might want to paste to their boards. Sample questions include:

• What do you like to do for fun with your friends and family?

• What are three goals you’d like to achieve (this year/in your life)?

• At what activity, sport or school subject would you like to improve?

• What would a really happy day look like for you?

• If you could go anywhere in the world on holiday, where would that be?

• Do you have a favourite animal, colour or food that you’d like to add to your vision board?

• Is there someone you really admire? Who and why?

Once kids have defined some goals and things that bring them joy, you (and other adult participants) can help them find images that match these. Point out relevant images that you find, but leave it up to kids to decide if they belong on their boards. Kids should feel ownership and pride in their vision boards. Only they know what belongs in their vision.

Be open to how your visions are realised

Once you create a vision board to help define what you want in your life, you should work toward your goals but understand that your desires might manifest in different ways than you imagined.

Be ready for cancelled plans, but be aware of how they may turn up again in another opportunity - but you have to keep imagining and dreaming of this goal, how does it feel to touch the sand in your bare feet, how does it feel to open the door to the new car - how does it sound on the open road? (you get the picture!)

Time for another party!

As time moves on, our goals and desires change. Even if you’ve made a vision board in the past, you may consider making another one. I have made several vision boards and  Each board I’ve made is special in different ways.

Why not make these an annual event with friends and take turns hosting or why not get together at work and have a team-building day sharing your goals for the future.

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5 Ways You Never Thought About Using a Vision Board

Are you familiar with using a vision board as a tool for keeping your dreams and goals in mind, or maybe your not and this is the first time you have seen one and can see how powerful they can be.

But did you know also know that you can use a vision board in a variety of ways, depending on your needs? In fact, you might even want to have more than one vision board, to keep your dreams for the various areas of your life and business clear.

Business Planning

This vision board is where you’ll keep track of why and how you do what you do. You started your business for a reason - your “why.” But somewhere along the way, many of us lose sight of this goal.

A business planning vision board can help keep us on track.

On it, you’ll keep images that represent your ideal business, such as working from the beach, speaking in front of a large crowd, achieving top seller status, or even a big fancy office if that’s your thing.

Life Goals

Where do you want to be in five, ten, or twenty years? That’s not just a question from a bad job interview, it’s a critical consideration for anyone who wants to live a life of purpose and meaning, and a vision board is a perfect tool for staying on track.

This vision board—like all of them—is fluid and in a constant state of change. As your life goals change and grow, so will your vision board. Maybe you no longer want to live in Paris. That’s ok. Replace the city of lights with a relaxing mountaintop retreat if that’s your thing.

But do keep your life goals vision board updated and refer to it each time you have to make a major decision. It will help clarify the direction you need to take to achieve your life’s dreams.

Holiday Planning

Heading off on an amazing holiday with the family? Don’t leave your journey to chance. Capture all your “must-see” destinations on a vision board so you don’t miss anything.

Even better, invite your kids and spouse to join you, and create a fun planning tool the entire family can use. The kids will be excited about your trip, and you’ll be sure everyone gets to see and do everything they hoped for. By planning ahead, you’ll ensure everyone has the epic vacation of their dreams.

Home Buying

Pinterest has built an entire business around what amounts to a digital vision board—much of it devoted to home décor. If you’re looking for a new home, or simply remodeling the one you have, then a vision board is a great way to organise your plans.

Snip photos of the style of home you love, colour combos to try, landscaping ideas, and anything else that strikes your fancy. Keeping your home-buying vision board close at hand will save you time in your search by reminding you exactly what you’re looking for.

Client/Customer/Team Member Attracting

Every business has an ideal client and customer (and us network marketers it can be team members too), but this seemingly simple thing can be incredibly difficult to define. A vision board can and will help you out big time with that!

Is your ideal customer male or female? Young or old? Successful or not? Does he or she have kids or a home or a business? Is she confident or timid? Athletic or overweight? What are their issues right now?

Create a collection of images that represent your ideal client and refer to it each time you are tempted (as we all are) to sign a client or team member who is less than ideal.

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