What should you put on a vision board? Why use this vision board checklist?
The idea of creating a vision board, especially around December and January when everyone wants to change their lives, has been around for a long time, and this will not change anytime soon.
But how often have you created a vision board that is genuinely “you,” void of social media pressure?
Every year, we set new goals.
You want to eat healthier, become a better person, reduce screen time, journal more, build your spiritual life, and go on your dream vacation.
But, in the end, you realize nothing changed.
It’s okay to set these goals and resolutions.
Still, they become difficult to remember when your goals and resolutions are tucked into a notebook, and you’ll never revisit them again.
A dream board or vision board is a pictorial representation of your goals, aspirations, and resolutions.
Having a vision board helps you keep your goals in sight.
When you see your goals daily, it not only helps you stay motivated to work on them. Also enables you to manifest your dream life.
Hence, being intentional about what you include on your vision board is essential.
In this blog post, you’ll have the vision board checklist to create a dream board that can help you manifest your desires, goals, and intentions.
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Before Creating a Vision Board, Here are Things to Note
I know, I know, vision boards look cool!
Especially that feeling, this is it! “Oh, I’m getting serious with my life, and I might achieve this year’s resolutions and goals, unlike the last time.”
Before creating your next vision board, here are things you should note:
Get Clear on Your Intentions
What are your intentions? Why are you creating a vision board? What areas of your life do you want to improve?
Are you creating this vision board to represent your New Year goals and resolutions, or is it for a specific area of your life?
I digress! A vision board is so powerful for manifestation and is often used as a tool for visualization when practicing the law of attraction manifestation method.
However, most people create vision boards only for their New Year resolutions and a long list of goals.
On the contrary, you can create a vision board for anything.
Whether you’re launching a new business, program, or course.
Or for specific areas of life like money vision boards, self-care, relationship vision boards, etc
You understand?
Being clear on your intentions helps you know exactly what to put on a vision board.
Knowing why and what exactly you want to achieve with your vision is the foundation for creating and manifesting your dream life using a vision board.
When you are clear about your intentions, you can select the right images, quotes, and affirmations and even create the right vision board for you.
For example, if your goal is to improve your health, your board might include pictures of fresh meals, a pair of running shoes, or an affirmation like, “I am strong and healthy.”
Being intentional helps you create a dream board that is meaningful and deeply personal.
Instead of random pictures from your “favorite” influencer that look good together, your board becomes a visual tool to inspire and motivate you daily.
2. How do You Want to Feel?
Apart from your vision board serving as a daily reminder and motivation for achieving your goals, it also evokes a feeling of accomplishment when you manifest your goals.
Think about how you’ll feel if you achieve your goals.
Will you feel powerful, self-made, healthy, fit, confident, and secure? However, it depends on the goals you’ve set.
Knowing how you want to feel when you achieve your goals will help you choose the right images, affirmations, quotes, and other things to include in your vision board.
Ask yourself these questions:
- How do I want to feel when I wake up each day?
- What emotions do I want to carry with me throughout the year?
- What feelings do I associate with the goals I’m setting?
- How will I feel when I look at my vision board daily?
- What emotions do I associate with my goals? —peace, joy, excitement, or maybe freedom?
For instance, if one of your goals is to travel more, it might not just be about the destination.
It’s about the freedom, adventure, and excitement of exploring new places.
Similarly, suppose your goal is to improve your finances and become financially stable.
In that case, you’ll associate this goal with feeling secure, peaceful, and empowered when you control your money.
What do you Want to Achieve?
What are the things you want to achieve or own? Are they tangible or intangible?
This is almost like setting your intentions, but this time, you’ll be specific about what exactly you want to achieve in each area of life.
Remember to focus on making them as clear and actionable as possible.
Instead of saying, “I want to be healthier,” define what that looks like: “I want to work out three times a week, drink more water, and prioritize sleep.”
When setting goals for your vision board, thinking about both tangible and intangible things is essential.
The tangible goals for the vision board are those goals that you can measure and track.
Meanwhile, the intangible are feelings, habits, and experiences.
You can represent these intangible feelings in your boards using affirmations, quotes, etc.
For example, assuming one of your goals is to become a content creator who earns at least $5k monthly.
You can include the image of an influencer with cash on your vision board. This is a tangible goal.
For the intangible, how would you feel if you hit this new source of income? Use affirmations and quotes that align with that.
Intangible: Feeling confident in your skill, creative, and fulfilled in your work. And having the freedom to work on your own terms and express yourself authentically.
You can use a quote or affirmation like, “I create valuable content effortlessly, and abundance flows to me.”
I love to sit, brainstorm, and answer these questions; doing this helps me gain clarity, and every goal and image on my board is deep and helps me visualize the type of person I want to become.
With that noted, what should you put on a vision board?
Here’s my exact vision board checklist. Use it to create a board that’s truly yours, so you can manifest your dreams.
What Should Be On Your Vision Board (Vision Board Checklist)
Here’s a lits of what you should include in your vision board to manifest your dream and goals for the year.
1. Smart Goals for Areas of Life
The most important thing to include in your vision board is your SMART goals. Think about the goals for each area of life and represent each of these goals in your vision board.
For example,
- Your career goal may be to speak at TED — use images of someone speaking at a TED event.
- Hit 200k monthly podcast listeners: Take a screenshot of your podcast analytics and write that number on it.
- Health — lose 10 kg: Practice portion control, walk 10k steps daily, and go to the gym 3x weekly
- Financial goals: Save $5,000 by December — Use an image of a savings jar or a bank account screenshot with your target amount.
- Personal development: Read 12 books this year — image of a stack of books with numbers representing your goal.
The idea is to list your SMART (Specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound) goals in your goal book before adding these goals to your vision board as images or, in some cases, a vision bingo card.
I always recommend these steps before filling your vision board with images.
I always tell people that the idea of creating goals to balance every area of life simultaneously is far-fetched and will only lead to overwhelm.
Instead, choose one or two core areas of life that will impact you most and work on them.
I recommend using the 80/2- to decide what should come first.
I share more on setting smart goals in this blog post on balancing areas of life and how to get your life together.
2. Images That Represents Your Aspirations
Use images that represent what you want to manifest.
I know I’ve pretty much explained this in the SMART goal section.
For example, if one of your goals is to get engaged or married, you might add an image of a beautiful engagement ring, a couple holding hands with a ring visible, wedding bands, or even a proposal photoshoot.
Images are one of the most essential things in a vision board checklist. They help stimulate how you’ll feel about achieving your goals.
Plus, they make your vision board more appealing and motivating.
Including images in your vision board helps you visualize and have a clear picture of what’s possible and the life you want to live.
Additionally, I love to think about these images as a form of reminder and timelines.
You can go back to compare your reality in the future after you achieve your goals to when you desired those goals when creating your vision board.
Like Tam Kaur, one of my favorite self-development girlies, you can always do a throwback where you compare your vision board to your camera roll.
Okay, Faith, images are important for vision boards; I get it. Where can I find them? Pinterest is one of my favorite places to source for vision board images.
You can check on Pinterest and Instagram for influencers you admire, dupes (my favorite free stock photo site with Pinterest-sy images), old magazines (if you have them around), and Canva.
Apart from creating vision boards in Canva, you can find stylish and aesthetic images in Canva.
3. Positive Affirmations and Quotes
Positive affirmations are powerful for rewiring your beliefs.
It helps you see yourself as someone capable of achieving her goals.
Affirmations and positive quotes are like power words. They go hand in hand and help you feel the energy of your vision board.
I digress a little.
During my self-reflection on the previous year, I realized I had all the courses I needed to grow my business and didn’t need to buy more. I needed to take the right action.
The quote, “I have everything I need to change my life,” was born. It is one of my favorite quotes of the year.
Because of this quote, I’m forced to take action, procrastinate less, and make no excuses for myself.
When choosing words for your vision board, choose words and affirmations that are powerful and meaningful to you.
Because what holds value to others may be meaningless to you. This is one of my secrets for vision boarding.
Also, find relevant quotes and vision board affirmations for different areas of life and place them next to the images representing your goals.
For example, If you have a quote about health, place it next to an image of your healthy habits, like working out or eating nutritious food.
If you have a prosperity affirmation, put it near images that represent abundance, like a dream home or a business success.
Here’s a list of powerful quotes and affirmations for the vision board:
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” — Robert Collier.
- “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain.
- “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” — Jim Rohn.
- I am worthy of achieving all my dreams and desires.
- I trust in myself and my journey.”
- “I am becoming the best version of myself every single day
- Success doesn’t wait for me.
- I am capable of achieving my goals.
- I create financial ease and security one day at a time
- I create a life that is full of joy, laughter, and exciting experiences
- Intentionally building a healthy relationship.
Read the list of best vision board quotes to see more powerful words for vision boarding.
4. Use Colors and Symbols that Feels Like you
Consider editing your board; if you can’t look at your vision board and feel it’s personal, you may consider editing it. Your vision board is supposed to feel like you.
Hence, I always emphasize that you shouldn’t create a vision board of your favorite “influencers” board.
It’s best to sit with yourself, evaluate what’s essential, and set your goals before creating your board.
Make it personal by adding symbols and colors that deeply resonate with you.
If you’re a pink girly, use more pinky images and maintain a pinky vibe; that way, your vision board speaks to your soul.
Include symbols in your vision board. They carry powerful meaning and can give your board an extra depth.
For example, if you want to focus on personal growth, add symbols like trees or butterflies to represent transformation and stability.
I love to use the heart or infinity symbol to connect goals to my vision board. Symbols are not necessary, but they add a more personal touch to your board.
There you have it, your vision board checklist.
Read More of My Best Self Growth Tips to Get your Life Together
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- How to Wake Up Early at 5 Am Every Day and Not Feel Tired (Step by Steps)
- 15 Best Steps on How to Journal for Self Growth & Better Yourself
- 12 Areas of Life Balance and Goals to Optimize Yours for Growth
- What is Lucky Girl Syndrome: 70 Lucky Girl Syndrome Affirmations
- 30 Clear Signs Of High Vibration Persons (What to Look for)
- How to Level Up in Life:19 Easy Steps for Leveling up this year
How Many Categories Should A Vision Board Have?
Your vision board is personal and doesn’t have to follow a strict rule for categories.
However, vision boards are only a visual representation of your goals.
Suffice it to say, having around 5-7 key categories representing the most critical areas of your life is helpful.
These categories include career and success, health and wellness, relationships and Love, self-improvement, financial abundance and wealth, travel and adventure, spirituality, and Inner Peace.
Keeping these categories short helps you stay focused, balanced, and not overwhelming.
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