How to Make a Vision Board in 5 Easy Steps

After feeling inspired by a scene from The Secret, I created my first vision board back in December of 2016. It hung on my wall for about a year before I moved into a new apartment. While recently reorganizing my closet, I came across my old vision board and took a peek at what I had desired back in 2016. I kid you not, about 75% of my goals and dreams that were represented on that board had come true over the past few years. Pretty wild.

Recently, I’ve been in the process of making my 2019 vision board, so I thought I’d share with you all how to make one and the power of this awesome technique.

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So, what exactly is a vision board? A vision board is a collage of images or symbols that represent a person’s goals or intentions.

They are meant to inspire, motivate, and encourage. Vision boards act as a trigger to both your conscious and subconscious mind, allowing for your dreams and desires to be in both the foreground and background of your mind.

Visualization is a very powerful technique that allows you to create your future, manifest your desires, and achieve your dreams. What you think, you become. The Law of Attraction is actually a very real concept (sometimes to a scary-good degree!).

I’ve heard and read about so many stories similar to mine – people coming across their old vision boards and realizing that they are living the life they once desired. So, here’s how to take a step into living your dream life!

Without further adieu, here’s how to make a vision board in 5 easy steps:

Step #1. Get clear about your goals

Where do you intend to see yourself in 2019?  How do you want to feel?  Where do you want to be?  What do you desire to change?  Do you have any secret passions that you’d love to make happen?

Write down everything and anything you want to manifest into your life.  It can be anything from traveling to New Zealand to getting a promotion at work.  Want to meet the love of your life? Write him/her down! And also write down what you imagine him/her to be like and/or what you want in a partner. The clearer and more descriptive you are in deciding what you want, the clearer the Universe will be in providing that to you.

Step#2. Find Your Inspirations

Gather pictures or words that represent or symbolize what you want or how you want to feel.  You can search online or cut things out from magazines. Find whatever inspires you. It’s almost like making a collage, a collage of your dreams that is!

Step #3. Get craftsy

You’ll need a poster board, markers, glue, scissors, anything colorful and fun you’d like to add to your vision board along with all your research from step #2. Have fun with this! Your vision board acts as a resource of inspiration, so if something brings a smile to your face, put it on your board!

Step #4. Find some sacred “me-time” to put together your vision board

Make it a meditative process and really put positive vibes into everything you place on your poster board.  Visualize yourself achieving that particular goal as you paste the picture.  Feel what achieving that goal would feel like.  

Step #5. Mount your finished product

Place your vision board somewhere where you can see it every day, multiple times a day.  You want to spend time visualizing your goals with the help of your vision board on a daily basis.  It’s important to constantly be reminded of what you intend and how you intend to feel so that you can manifest what you desire into your life!

There you have it! Here are the first steps in creating the life you have always imagined. If you’d like to learn more about visualization or the Law of Attraction, I strongly suggest these reads:

• The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (or the movie – currently on Netflix)
• The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
• Spirit Junkie by Gabrielle Bernstein

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