What’s Your Vision?
What Is A Vision Board—and Why are We Doing One?!
What is a Vision Board?
A vision board is typically a poster board on which you paste or collage images that you’ve cut out from various magazines, or collected from your own personal albums. The idea behind this is that when you surround yourself with images of who you want to become based on your values, what you want to have, where you want to live, or where you want to vacation, your life changes to match those images and those desires. If we don’t know what we want for ourselves in our lives, how do we know what to focus on and what to exclude?!!
Before you begin your vision board:
What are your core values? Sit quietly and set the intent. With lots of kindness and openness, ask yourself what it is you REALLY want. Maybe one word will be the answer (COOL LINK).. Maybe images will come into your head. Consider your top five values and maybe a couple of goals. Make this your jumping-off point.
OLD SCHOOL/TRADITIONAL VISION BOARD DIRECTIONS:
Supplies you may need for creating a Vision Board:
Does it have to be a board? NO- whatever makes sense to you. A suitcase, a book, GPS, trophy, poster board cut into a shape? Whatever…. the sky is the limit!
- Posterboard.
- A big stack of different magazines, pictures clip-art.
- Personal photos or memorabilia.
- Glue stick
- Computer (in today’s technological world digital is great!)
DIGITAL/LESS TRADITIONAL VISION BOARD DIRECTIONS:
Supplies you may need for creating the Vision Board:
-Computer and Internet access
-Images that are free for use and/or modification
-Choose a presentation/poster software (Canva, Google Draw, Pictochart)
-Personal photos or photos of personal memorabilia
The Five Steps of Creating a Vision Board:
Step 1: Go through your magazines and tear the images from them. No gluing yet! Just let yourself have lots of fun looking through magazines and pulling out pictures or words or headlines that strike your fancy. Have fun with it. Make a big pile of images and phrases and words. For Digital vision boards, search Google images with the filter that allows for free use and modification. Copy and paste/save those images to a Google doc or Word doc….no organization yet. You are just looking to capture images.
Step 2: Go through the images and begin to lay your favorites on the board. Eliminate any images that no longer feel right. This step is where your intuition comes in. As you lay the pictures on the board, you’ll get a sense of how the board should be laid out. For instance, you might assign a theme to each corner of the board. Health, Job, Spirituality, Relationships, for instance. Or it may just be that the images want to go all over the place. For Digital boards, determine what poster software you want to use and start adding in the images (hint--Google draw is the easiest to me)
Step 3: Glue or place everything onto the board. Add writing if you want. You can paint on it, or write words with markers. For Digital boards, use borders, word art, etc to add interest.
Step 4: (optional, but powerful) Leave space in the very center of the vision board for a fantastic photo of yourself where you look radiant and happy. Paste yourself in the center of your board. For Digital Boards, this is the same.
Step 5: Hang your vision board in a place where you will see it often. Take a photo of it and submit it on Canvas. For Digital Boards, submit it to Canvas via shareable link or pdf of it. If you need help, let me know. I will be printing the digital submissions for students late next week so they can hang the boards up.