How to Create a Vision Board for Success

Posted by Mick Kopp | June 26, 2008 .

What is a vision board

If you have never heard of a vision board, it’s okay. Usually, a vision board is nothing more than a piece of poster board with pictures and words glued to it, which depict what you want in life. It is very easy to create and you’ll have a lot of fun doing so. The pictures and words can easily be cut from magazines or printed from your computer. Vision boards help you to manifest your desires through sight. They symbolize and serve as reminders of what you want most in life.

How I first learned what a vision board was

I was attending a motivational seminar many years ago, when I first learned how to create a vision board. A well dressed man came on stage and proceeded to tell everyone that he had gotten everything he had ever wanted, after adding it to his vision board. Then, he showed us pictures of his car, his house, his boat and so on. These things were on a sheet of paper that he laminated, folded up, and kept in his wallet. He did this because it worked for him. Everytime he opened his wallet to spend some money, he pulled it out and looked at it, and said to himself, “That’s mine.”

Children use vision boards all the time

Children do this all the time, they just don’t know it. I can remember when I was a little kid looking through the Sears, Goldbro, and JCPenny catalogs for things that I liked. I would then spend hours daydreaming about toys, computers, games and that I wanted. Wow, I got a lot of stuff this way! Everything that I’ve ever gotten seems to start out with me seeing it first and then deciding that it’s going to be mine.

How many times has this happened to you

You’ve finally decided that you want something, like a car, a relationship, a new job, or more money. You get a good picture in your mind of what it would be like. Then all of the sudden, out of the clear blue, you get it!

Some would say these things are just coincidence. I would say it has more to do with the fact that you finally had a burning desire to get what you wanted. Had you only decided you wanted it earlier, you would have gotten it sooner.

How it works

Everyone has their own opinion about how this works. Some think it works because your thoughts create your reality, and this helps to guide your thoughts towards what you want most in life. Others might argue that prosperity is yours for the taking. All you have to do is get firm about what you want and you will get it. Still others might claim that we are co-creators with God. We just have to imagine it’s ours and feel good about it, then we get what we want.

Does it really matter how it works? The fact is that it works. No matter what you believe. Just try it.

What to do if you don’t believe in all that manifesting stuff

Create one anyway, and call it a goal board. You won’t hurt my feelings.

Remember, getting firm about what you want in life is the first step towards getting what you want.

Getting started

Decide where you will keep your vision board. Some great places are:

  • a wall in your office or workspace
  • on the bathroom mirror
  • on the ceiling directly above your bed
  • behind a closet door
  • in your wallet, purse, pocket or organizer
  • in a binder or scrapbook on your desk or nightstand
  • as a slideshow on the computer

Next, decide how you will display your pictures. You can put them on posterboard, a bulletin board or a small sheet of paper. Or turn them into a digital slide show on your computer if you want.

Decide on what you want to manifest

What will you focus on creating in your life? Your vision board can be about anything and everything you want, or about just one specific thing. There are no set rules about what areas of your life you should include on your vision board. Be very specific and as detailed if you like, or put anything and everything that your heart desires on it. I’ve listed a few examples below to help get you started.

Some broad examples:

  • homes
  • cars
  • a happy family
  • better health
  • more money
  • travel and vacations
  • spiritual growth

Or narrow it down:

  • make money working at home as a blogger
  • lose 20 pounds
  • have a child (boy or girl)
  • become President/CEO of your company
  • learn to fly a helicopter
  • graduate from (Harvard,Yale, MIT) or any other school
  • make One Hundred Eight Thousand Sixty Three Dollars and Twenty Two cents this year = $108,063.22
  • learn how to play piano
  • buy a 2009 Mercedes 2009 CLS63 AMG
  • get 10 new friends
  • travel to Paris in a hot air balloon
  • find the person of your dreams and get married

I tend to lean towards being more specific. That way, when you get what you want, you will know it worked. You can’t write it off as coincidence then.

Create your Vison Board

Now that you have some ideas, it’s time to start making your vision board.
Starting by cutting out pictures and words that describe what you want ($100,000, or President/CEO), from old or new magazines. If you don’t have any, ask friends and family for old magazines they don’t want. You can use brochures, and free real estate and car trader magazines that you find up front at the grocery store. You can also find many printable images on the internet of almost anything you can imagine.

Better yet, go out and take your own pictures of things that you want. Get someone to take a picture of you in that Mercedes 2009 CLS63 AMG, or standing in front of that lake house you’ve always wanted.

So what do you do if you can’t find the picture of what you want? Just draw it. Preferably with your left hand and with crayons. The left hand is linked to the right side hemisphere of the brain, which is known to be the creative side of your brain. Using your left hand will stimulate your imagination and creativity.

Before you start pasting or gluing anything to the board, separate your pictures out into time periods in which you would like them to manifest in your life. (1 year , 3 years, 5 years.) You don’t have to do this, but if you don’t put a time-line on them, then you may never try to do anything to get them.

Arrange everything to be sure it fits and will look pleasing to you. Then, start pasting them to your poster board. You could also use a sheet of paper, or pin the pictures to a cork board.

Making a vision board slide show

This is a great way to make a cool vision board, and it saves a lot of time (and sticky fingers). Just download pics off the internet of things that you want, and put them together in a special folder labeled vision board. You can put comments on them, if you like, and you can copy the file to any computer that you have access to, or even put it on your phone.

I run windows XP and have mine in the My Pictures folder. So all I have to do is click on the vision board file and then click slide show in the upper left hand corner.

What to do once you have created a vision board

Decide how you will use your board. Will you be looking at it all day, just once a day, or whenever you can? For best results, I suggest you look at it at least twice a day. You can do it once when you wake up in the morning, and once right before you go to sleep at night. Your mind is much more susceptible to suggestions at these times. The more you look at your vision board and focus on the things that you want, the more likely those things will manifest in your life.

That’s it. Leave me a comment about how you’ve used vision boards.

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