3 Reasons Why You Should Start 2021 With a Vision Board
By: Lu Mar
Tags: Education, Self Improvement, Life, Creativity, Inspiration

3 Reasons Why You Should Start 2021 With a Vision Board

A magazine contacted me, just days after I made a vision board

Photo by Polina Zimmerman from Pexels

You would not believe the number of amazing opportunities that came my way a mere few weeks after making my vision board. Whether you believe in the theories behind manifestation or not, a visual reminder each morning to get up and work on your goals will inherently make your goals more tangible.

Here’s what happens when you make a vision board (in my experience):

1. You’re forced to seriously think about what you want in life…

…which you don’t always get the opportunity to sit down and do.

You can approach your vision board in one of two ways. You can make a short-term (yearly) vision board or a long term one. Stop and ponder what you would like to do for a living in 5 years, what your dream house looks like, what car you’ll drive, what your day will look like in 10 years, what you want your net worth to be etc.

As exciting as this is it can also be quite daunting. To do this, one approach I used is to make a mind map of everything I can think of.

Image by Author: The mindmap that helped me make my vision board

This mind map is just as valuable as the vision board. If you see before yourself on your mindmap your dream life, you’re doing it right.

Not all of these things made it onto the vision board, but it definitely made my life easier when it came to choosing the images.

Bonus tip: Don’t pick up your nearest magazine to shred up and make your vision board with.

This may lead you to put things you never intended to be on your vision board because they looked cool and exciting. For example, if you’ve picked up your nearest copy of Vogue, you will have a largely materialistic vision board, which may not have been your intention. Writing a mindmap or list and then printing them off from Google should make for a far more accurate vision board.

2. You are making a promise to yourself to work towards your dreams

By printing, cutting, and sticking your images down onto your board you are making a commitment to each thing you stick down.

Not everyone gives themself the privilege of honouring their aspirations, but I imagine most that make a vision board, do. Depending on how you approach your board, you are telling yourself, these are things I will achieve, this is a visual representation of what my life will look like.

Some also choose to put overly ambitious things on their vision board with the idea that even if they fall short, their life will look pretty amazing.

“Shoot for the moon, and even if you fail, you’ll land among the stars.”

3. The universe will reward you in the strangest of ways

Not everyone will believe this, or they may believe that this would have happened without the vision board, and well, who knows? All I know is that I put my vision board:

“Become an F1 presenter”

Then one week later, the top F1 team followed me on Twitter and I was picked up by the UK’s best motorsport magazine. Therefore I believe it is a combination of hard work and something a little extra.

The truth is, I wake up and I see, either on my phone (as my vision board is my phone wallpaper) or on my desk, my vision board. This will kick you up the bum and remind you of what truly matters. Ask yourself whether what you are doing aligns with your goals that have been set out, if the answer is no, stop.

Therefore, the Twitter follow and magazine gig was a result of my hard work, but I like to think the universe had a say too.