Why Would You Want to Use a Vision Board?

Why would you want to create a vision board? The simple answer is: to help make your dreams come true. You can use a vision board to achieve success in as many ways as you define that word: success in your health, wealth, relationships, and career goals—in all aspects of your life. Creating your own vision board is easy, and it’s incredibly powerful. Once you see the kinds of results it will create in your life, you’ll say, "Why didn’t someone tell me about this before?!"

In the most basic sense, a vision board is a flat surface onto which you paste a collage of pictures that represent the life you want to be living.

For example:

• the house you want to live in;

• the car you want to drive;

• the relationship you want to be a partner in;

• the family life you want to uphold;

• the adventures you want to explore;

• the accomplishments you want to achieve;

• the kind of person you want to be;

• the kind of difference you want to make in the world.

From the simplest possessions to the greatest impact and legacy, whatever you want your life to be and to mean, you can find pictures to represent these desires on your vision board.

That’s what a vision board is—but that doesn’t tell the whole story. A vision board is one tool (an especially powerful tool but just one of many) that you can use to create the life of your dreams. The images pasted on your vision board represent your life goals, dreams, and aspirations.

By placing them on paper, you are taking the first action step to realizing these dreams, by orienting your mind towards these items. You are pointing your inner compass towards what you want to achieve, giving yourself a sense of direction towards an end result.

By religiously studying your vision board, viewing it a couple times per day, the images of your goals and emotions triggered by thinking about how great accomplishing your goals would feel manifest in your brain, and further soak into your non-conscious mind, which is where habits are formed. Your mind will thus non-consciously push you to develop habits that will eventually result in your desired outcome, your goals and dreams.

Imagine a life without direction? Imagine attempting to take a family trip without any sense of direction? Without an initial sense of direction orienting you towards an end result, your goals become pointless, mere ideas that never gestate.