How to Complete a Vision Board
By: George Dalal
Tags: Vision, Goals, Health, Mental Health, New Year

Vision Boards, Dream Boards, Goal Boards…I’ve heard many versions of this tool…below are the lessons learned I’ve extracted over the 10 plus years of doing this exercise.

In a nutshell, I find this process extremely helpful in the ability to crisply articulate what your goals are and why. It also allows you to put your goals out to the universe…if you believe, you will receive!

What is a Vision Board?

Simply put, a vision board is an opportunity to put a collage of images, words, affirmations of one’s dreams or desires designed to serve as a source of inspiration and/or motivation to achieving within a particular time frame. For me, I do a vision board every 6 months, but for starters, I recommend doing it annually until you get the hang of it.

Why a Vision Board?

The purpose of your vision board is to bring everything on it to life.

Many times, when I ask someone what they want to “accomplish” this year, I get a uninteresting, unmeasurable answer of “being happy.” Although happiness is great, it’s an end result of accomplishing something you want. I find it hard to articulate your goals without this process of thinking about it first.

How to Build a Vision Board?

To develop a vision board, you must first think about what your goals are in many areas of your life. Some examples may include:

Relationships

Career

Finances

Home

Travel

Health

And so on…

How Long does it take to complete?

Very dependent on the individual, I have taken as little as 1 hour and up to 2 weeks to complete a board. It all depends on what you want to accomplish and then putting realistic targets to achieving these.

How do you measure success?

Probably the most important part of a Vision Board that I learned on my own is you need to set proper Objectives and Key Results. For example, if I want to be healthier in the new year, what does that mean? Here are some examples of what this may mean to you:

Being a particular Weight

Losing a % of Body Fat

Lowering your Blood Pressure

Excelling in Squash (or another sport) to beat an opponent

Trying Vegetarian or Vegan Lifestyles

Working out a number of days/per week

And so on…

My point to the above is you should be able to determine by the end of the timeframe whether you accomplished your goal with no grey areas.

Once I complete it, what do I do with it?

Another question I get, but very much dependent on YOU!

The important piece is it’s visible to you on a daily basis, it can be posted on your wall, your computer monitor or even on the inside cover of your journal/notebook.

Dependent on your comfort level, I do recommend you share your vision board with some people in your life. This allows you to articulate what you want to accomplish while indirectly holding you accountable with the awareness of the individual(s).

For example, if one of your goals is to get healthier and trying out being gluten free, it might be hard for you to scarf down a gluten-filled dominos pizza with a side of bread sticks next to the person you told your goal to.

What does a Vision Board Look Like?

Here’s an example of one…

Supporting the above Board, I would recommend having a list of Objectives and Key Results for you to measure success.

Good Luck!

Here’s to a successful New Year and an always improving YOU!

Happy New Year’s All!

George

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