Ultimate Vision Boards
No Craft Supplies Needed
You want the ultimate vision board to visualize the dream vacation, home, or business but you’re not crafty. What do you do? Vision boards are meant to be a tool to focus on what’s important in your life – whether it’s your family, business or lifestyle.
Besides, 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, lucky you. Make your vision board as pretty as can be by adding pieces of fabric, a painted abstract background, or use those miscellaneous scrapbook supplies, printed papers, and fun stickers.
What if you don’t have a crafty gene nor have the desire to develop a crafty side? Or what 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!
New here? I also have the following posts to help my readers work on the ultimate vision board for their own personal use:
5 NO Frills Ideas for Vision Boards
1. Corks are more than wine bottle stoppers.
Buy an inexpensive cork board and use thumbtacks to attach your photos. Using tacks makes it especially easy to move your photos around or to take some off after you’ve reached your goals.
2. Books make great planners.
If you have multiple goals for different parts of your life, then creating a vision book keeps all those goals on separate pages but still compact in the same book. A simple journal or a larger scrapbook serves the purpose. 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 on your bookshelf.
Vision Board Notebook
3. Let’s get digital.
You don’t have to be a graphics designer to use Canva. Search for a free template or use Canva’s grid template. For my dream board below, I used the Photo Collage template and uploaded some of our photos from previous trips to St. John, USVI. We want to go back to the island BUT we want to live there – so this is one of my vision boards.
You can find photos and quotes for anything and upload to your chosen template. 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 photo shop.
4. Hang a single photo.
Tape a photo of your dream car (or whatever you’re dreaming) to your mirror. You’ll get to see that throughout your day, making the vision become more of a reality. 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, just 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 vision statement.
Forget about the pretty pictures and instead, write out your goals or dreams. In my research for this article I came across an interesting idea for a written vision statement. Write your statement as a letter to yourself, 10 years into the future. Describe what you’re doing and where you’re living, among other things, as if you’ve been living that life for 10 years and are giving an update to 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 a NY Times Bestselling Author! You canread Luvvie’s story here.
Most articles describe 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 those goals. How you package up your vision is completely subjective.
xoxo, Christine
Do any of these ideas of creating a vision board seem more appealing? Which one will you try? Leave a comment or post a picture of your vision board.
Christine Jackson
Hello and welcome to my little corner of the world. I’m an entrepreneur, wife, mom, grandmother and fur foster.
I want to help people find their purpose in life. Why? For the simple reason of finding my own way.
Passionate about: Reading, writing, traveling and learning something new every day.
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Christine Jackson
Christine was born in Vermont but raised in Texas. An empty nester of three kids and now two grandchildren, she and her husband have a lot of life to live. That was the plan all along.
