Vision Board Workshop

Pre-Event Exercise

Use social media like Tiny Buddha, sticker sheets, Pinterest for image inspirations

Questions to help develop a board and scope

What is the time period you would like to envision?
How do I feel?
What is my profession? and professional goals?
What kind of home do I live in?
How are my relationships?
What do I want to change in my life?
What do I want to keep the same or have more of? what should change?
What motivates me?
What am I most proud of?

Introduction

A tool to help with goals, plans
Vision boards support:
- Reflection
  - What are you looking for?
- Clarity
  - What do you feel? what do images do for you?
- Preparation
- Motivation
Vision boards research shows it supports goals
- Help identify opportunities
  - Called “value taking”
  - Selective thinking
    - Frequent focus on goals
- Visualization
Approaches
- Board or multiple boards by categories/time can be created for what you want to track
- Place board in place you see often like desktop, wallpaper

Board Development

Tools

Pinterest, Canva.com, unsplash.com
- Create a board from a template
- Desktop wallpaper
- Search, choose images to add to your board
- Tip: right click to copy image and paste to your board in say canva.com

Categories and Affirmations

Select categories like family, financial, relationships, health and affirmations in those areas

Examples for Vision Boarding

If you are learning to play the guitar, take a photo of you holding yours.
Want to become more physically flexible? Find a picture of some advanced yoga poses.
Would you like to be a more romantic partner? An image of a dozen red roses will remind you of your goal.
Want to get a promotion at work? Copy and paste your email signature, change the job title to the one you want, and print it off.
Are you about to publish a book? Print the front cover and put a 5-star Amazon rating below it.
Are you looking to retire in 10 years or less? Include images of what you’d spend your retirement doing, whether that’s tending to your garden or playing golf.
Looking to form a habit of daily meditation? Get someone to take a photo of you in your meditation position.
Want to improve your critical thinking skills? Words such as “evidence” and “truth” can be useful reminders.
Do you wish you could work for a non-profit in the children’s care sector? Find images of people who do that now or grab the logos of charities you’d like to work for.
Is a safari in the Serengeti on your bucket list? Put photos of elephants, rhinos, or a map of the national park on your board.
Do you want to create a profitable portfolio of investments? Mock up a chart with a realistic upward curve illustrating the growth in your assets.
Are you an artist? Perhaps photograph your most recent piece with a sold sign next to it.
Do you want to get speaking gigs at the biggest events in your industry? A picture of someone standing at a podium might be appropriate, with the logo of the conference next to it.
If you have some home renovation goals, a board full of color palettes or items of furniture will inspire you.
If you can’t yet drive, but you’d like to, find a photo of someone ripping up their learner plates.
Restoring a classic car? A picture of the same model in mint condition is perfect.
Baking fanatics might want photos of the types of cakes or puddings they want to master along with recipes snippets.
If you’d like to make it into a sports team, images to do with that sport would be a good addition. Bonus points for photos of you playing the sport.
Do you have a list of books you’d like to read? Print out their front covers and then replace them with new ones as and when you read each of them.
If your dream is to declutter and embrace minimalist living,
- You might even wish to remove all but the basics from each room of your house
- Take a photo before putting things back, and then pin that to your board to show where you’d like to get to.