Whenever I was writing out my 2019 goals I started on two vision boards. If you aren’t familiar with what a vision board is, it is a poster board or bulletin board where you cut out pictures and quotes of goals/dreams you want to accomplish for the year. At first I wanted to do one board for this year and one board for two years from now, but decided to add those dreams to this years board. I first thought a couple goals were too big to accomplish this year, but I can still work towards them anyway. If they don’t happen this year I can always add them to next years board.
The purpose of putting pictures to your goals/dreams is so you can see them everyday and picture what it would be like if those dreams came true. I know that when I see my goals laid out in front of me, it makes me want to work harder to make those dreams a reality. Everyone’s process is different for creating their boards, but I just wanted to let you know mine. First, I started out with just a piece of blank printer paper and I wrote out my goals for 2019. Most of my goals have to do with growing my tribe on instagram, youtube, liketoknowit, my blog newsletter, so I printed off those logos from my computer and I wrote the following number I want to achieve by the end of the year. If you know specific things you can print pictures off the internet, or to make it more fun you can go to a bookstore and buy a few magazines to cut pictures out. I decided to do both so I can make it look fun so I will get excited about my goals and reaching them.
I’m sure y’all understand the concept of a vision board, but I just wanted to give one example to make even more sense. Say one of your goals is to take your family on a trip to Hawaii this year, so your goal is to save enough money to go on that trip. You will want to find a picture of Hawaii or specifically a resort in Hawaii you want to go to, put it on your vision board, and when you look at it you can picture you and your family there. It will make you want to save more and work harder for it than if you were to just write that goal down on a piece of paper. If you are tempted to buy something you don’t need, you can look at that picture of the resort and hopefully make you realize that is more important than another pair of shoes or more clothes.
Saving is definitely something I am trying to work on this year, because I would love to put extra money towards one of my student loans to get it paid off. That is definitely going on my vision board, and maybe I need to put that as my phone background so I can see it when I want to shop online, haha.
Anyways, I really hope this post inspires you to create a vision board so you can start making your goals and dreams a reality! Let me know in the comments if you are creating a vision board this year!
