5 Ways to Make Vision Boards Work for You Without Being Crafty

Vision boards are meant to be tools to focus on what’s important in your life – your family, business goals, or a carefree lifestyle.  How you create your vision board or what it looks like aesthetically doesn’t have any bearing on how well it will work.

If you have the Martha Stewart crafty gene (which I don’t), make your vision board decorative.  Add pieces of fabric or wrapping paper to the back.  Paint an abstract background using your favorite colors or business branding colors.  Dig out your long-lost scrapbook supplies and utilize those beautiful, printed papers and fun stickers.

However, if you don’t have a crafty gene or the desire to develop a crafty side – or if you’re male and want a more masculine look – have no fear.  You can still make a no-frills vision board that suits your style and that will work!

1. Cork vision board. Buy an inexpensive corkboard and use thumbtacks to attach your photos.  Using tacks makes it easy to move your photos around or remove some after you’ve reached your goals.  (I painted the frame around my board and added my favorite material to make it look pretty.  Maybe you’d like to use some wrapping paper for your background?)
2. Vision binders. If you’d like to keep your visions “close at hand,” use a vision binder, book, journal, or scrapbook to keep your goals on separate pages.  However, make a concerted effort to look at your book every day or find a unique way to keep your vision book where you can see it often instead of closed up on your bookshelf.
3. Digital vision boards. For those who can whiz around the internet at the speed of light, digital vision boards are time savers.  I’ve started one on my Pinterest account.  How about Instagram?  Simply upload your photos and quotes to your chosen template and save them.  Save it as your wallpaper on your computer and phone.  Go one step further and get it professionally printed on photo paper at your local photoshop.
4. Hang a single photo. In a 60 Minutes interview, Beyoncé said that she hung a photo of an Academy Award near her treadmill where she saw it every day, to keep that goal at the back of her mind.  She reached that goal in 2013 when she received the Oscar for her song from the James Bond movie Skyfall.
5. Write a vivid vision statement. Maybe you prefer to forget the pretty pictures and write your goals instead.  Consider writing them as a letter to yourself, 10 years into the future.  Describe what you’re doing, the year, and where you’re living as if you have been living that life for 10 years and are updating your long-lost friend.  That’s exactly what Luvvie Ajayi did as a training exercise for her job.  She went from being laid off from the job she loved to being a New York Times bestselling author.  You can read Luvvie’s story here.

Much time is spent describing traditional vision boards but as you can see, creating a non-traditional vision board or writing a vision statement is just as powerful.  The most important point is voicing your goals and taking action to achieve them.  How you package your vision is arbitrary.

If you’re willing to “act now” every day, you will reach your goals.  But remember that acting now also means saying no to good things that don’t fit how you want to live.

If you’re waiting for things to fall in your lap, you’ll remain stagnant in your business and life.  Vision boards are tools to visualize your goals and dreams and WILL work if you use them .

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