Vision Boards for goal development
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Have a vision. It is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible. Shiv Khera
Vision boards are an excellent and interactive way to promote thoughts towards creating visions and setting goals. A vision board is a visual design on a board, piece of paper, online document, or even a wall display. A vision board is a creative activity which has many positive benefits such as:
- Helps to identify and plan your life goals
- Aids emotional connection to your ideas, dreams and desires
- Encourages imagination of what could be possible
- Supports you to believe you can achieve your aims and goals
- Promotes motivation, reduces procrastination
- Is a therapeutic and calming activity
How to make a vision board – Let’s get started
Materials – Large piece of cardboard, magazine images pens, paper, PVA glue.
Find a large piece of cardboard – pizza box, cardboard box etc.
Flick through magazines (tear images that resonate with you from the magazines).
Source and print online images, photos, or art that represents your life goals.
Drawn images.
Tear out titles, captions, letters, numbers that ignite your thoughts in a positive way.
Arrange the images, texts, numbers, pictures in a way on the board that starts to build a picture on the paper of how you would like your life to be on the future. Have you a specific goal, or a general change in your lifestyle that you desire
When happy glue all the pieces down.
When dry, add writing, poems, arrows, anything that helps bring the vision/goal alive.
Place the completed vision board in a prominent area, such as your office, lounge, kitchen etc. That way it serves as a daily reminder of your most important goals.
Explain to someone else (or record yourself) what your board is about, what your goals, dreams and desires are, and why you selected the items on your board.