Building your Vision Board 2025
December 24, 2024
Your personal guide
Visualize your dreams, goals, and intentions. Use this basic guide to create a personal vision board that inspires you every day.
Mapping your vision
Use a blank page to outline your vision for each area of your life. Writing your goals helps solidify your intentions and provides clarity for the future. Be as specific as you can. We've suggested a few areas you can focus on to help get you started.
- Health goals: What does optimal health mean for you? Outline your physical, mental, and emotional health goals.
- Professional goals: What are your career goals? What milestones are you aiming for in your professional life?
- Personal goals: What values, habits, and characteristics do you want to nurture? How do you want to grow as an individual? What personal growth milestones do you want to achieve? Write about the skills or mindsets you want to develop.
- Financial goals: What does financial success look like for you? Write down your goals for saving, investing, and financial freedom.
- Love goals: How do you want to feel in your relationships with family, friends, and romantic partners? Write about the connections you want to build.
- Experiences & Adventure goals: What adventures or experiences do you want to create? Consider travel, hobbies, and new memories you wish to build.
Some people are comfortable stopping at a written vision journal and some need visuals to maintain stark visual reminders of what they want to achieve.
To visualize a collage of your dreams, follow the next steps:
- Use a designated blank page to add and collage images, words, or symbols that represent your goals and aspirations. You can draw, paste magazine cutouts, or even write powerful words that inspire you. You cal also do this digitally by developing a PowerPoint slide to print and frame.
- Focus on creating a visual representation of your future self and life. Let your creativity flow as you dream and visualize.
Bringing it all together
Use both the writing and collage pages to create a well-rounded vision for your life. The visual representation on the collage page will inspire you, while the written goals will keep you focused and aligned with your intentions.
Here are some tips to elevate your vision board collage
- Tip 1: Be as specific as possible. This is your private guide, nobody else is going to see it and nobody else will use it or judge it or do anything with it. It is entirely yours. For example, say you want to get a new phone, find the exact image that represents the brand, colour and features you want.
- Tip 2: Include elements that reflect gratitude and the things you are thankful for, which will reinforce a positive mindset as you create your vision.
- Tip 3: The more you are reminded of what you want to dedicate your time and effort, the stronger the commitment. For example, we like to keep our vision boards as a phone wallpaper because even when we're not thinking of our goals, we know that they are simply there.
Finally, keep it positive. When you look at this, you should feel refreshed, happy and reminded of all that you are capable of, because you are in fact capable.
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