Three Easy Steps to Building a Vision Board That Ensures You Achieve Big Goals
Invest a few hours now for a major payoff later
Vision boards have been a staple in my life since I was a teenager. Junior year, I made my first one with my two best friends hoping to manifest a year full of emo concerts and amazing thrift store finds. A year later, as I looked back on my collection of concert tickets and vintage concert tees, I knew I had to make another. There’s something therapeutic about defining a goal to the point that you can build it out. Apart from motivation, vision boards aid in maintaining focus and setting priorities. I’m not the only one who thinks so: Beyonce runs on her treadmill while looking at a cut out of an Academy Award, Oprah’s well known for her vision boards, and Steve Harvey uses his as his phone’s background.
According to neuroscientist Tara Swart, our brains prioritize images over words — meaning that your vision board is more effective than a to-do list. This prioritization of value allows your brain to imprint important information on your subconscious while filtering out unnecessary data. Your brain sees the pictures of what you want and it starts to hone in on those goals. Pretty cool, right?
So now that we know vision boards work, how do we make one?
