How a Vision Board helps you manifest your dream life

In this post, I’m going to explain to you why a Vision Board is an incredible tool to manifest your dream life and will also show you how to create one.

Why do you need a Vision Board?

In my previous post, I showed you what Vision is and how to write your Life Vision as a strategy to fulfil your Life Purpose; your mission in life. A Vision Board is an extremely powerful visual representation of your written Life Vision.  You attach strong emotions to your desires and dream goals by finding and sticking images on your board. Emotions are key to manifesting your dream life. The more positive emotions you connect to your Vision, the more likely you will go through the steps that lead you to the life you envisioned.

If you are a visual type like me, Your Vision Board will be a great tool to visualize what you want to have and achieve in your life and “burn” that image into your memory.

Our brain can’t differentiate between things that really happened to us and what we repeatedly imagine.

It accepts both as reality and works on creating this reality for us.

We’ve all visualized and created things and events in our lives without even realizing it. My family moved a lot when I was a child due to my father’s job. Happened several times, that we travelled somewhere and my mother said: “This is such a nice town” and a few months or years later we ended up living there because my father was sent to work there.

I’ve also said/imagined/asked for many things in my life that later came true, usually when I long forgot about them, and sometimes I didn’t even want them anymore. I’m sure if you think about it you can find similar memories too.

 

How to create your Vision Board?

Old-School Vision Board

You can create a Vision Board on a large cardboard or bulletin board. You will either cut pictures and texts out from magazines or print them from your computer. These pictures should represent what YOU WANT in your life from a personal, financial, family, and relationship perspective in the next year, or 2, 5, etc. years. You can concentrate on one particular area of your life (i.e., your career), or your whole life. Then you simply stick these pictures on the board. Put this board somewhere where you see it often, for example on the inside of your closet door.

Although this is a fun exercise, it is a bit too complicated and time-consuming for me. I have created mine on my computer using PowerPoint.

Vision Board on your computer

You can also create a Vision Board using PowerPoint or Canva or some other program on your computer. You simply open a blank page, find some inspiring pictures online, or between your own photos, and copy & paste them into your blank page. Typing in any quotes or text that resonate with your goals is also easily possible.

Then you can use this collage of pictures as your desktop background or wallpaper on your phone so you will see it every day.

Here is the one I created. It’s not mine, because mine has family photos and some very specific goals on it that I would not want to share here. But I think this is a good example of what a Vision Board could look like 🙂

Pinterest private board

An even simpler approach is to open a private board on your Pinterest account and collect all the images that are in alignment with your written (or imagined) Life Vision there. Then you can scroll it regularly to motivate yourself to get closer and closer to your Life Vision and fulfilling your Purpose in life every day.

Why should you visualize your dream life?

Our brain is an amazing organ. It does so much without us being aware of it. For example, the Reticular Activating System, a set of nerve pathways in the brainstem,  filters out all the unnecessary information around us and shows us only what is important to us.

When we are very tired we can fall asleep next to a loud television and completely ignore the noise, but we instantly wake up if a baby cries or we hear something unusual. Similarly, we can work in a noisy office and our brain ignores all the sounds around us but we can still hear it when someone says our name.

It works visually too. Let’s say you bought a new car. You start to see that kind of car everywhere, although you hardly have seen any before. It happens because it became important for you.

When you are pregnant you see pregnant women everywhere. But there aren’t any more than there were before, you just started to notice them because your brain doesn’t filter that information out anymore.

Our brain is exposed to so many stimuli that without this filter system it would simply be “short-cut”. It is impossible to process all that information so it needs to prioritize. And what it lets in depends on you. It depends on your beliefs, your thoughts, your past experiences, and your memories.

If you change what you consciously focus on, you can change what your subconscious mind finds important and focus on.

If you focus on positive things, your brain will find positive things for you during the day. When you focus on negativity, your brain will find all the negative things that (can) happen to you.

If you look at your Vision Board every day you let your brain know that those things on the board are important to you. This will trigger your brain to find these things for you and manifest them in your life.

In this video, Mel Robbins explains this so well in this Video from Be Inspired:

The next step is to break your Vision down into bite-size steps, Goals, so you can go and take action. This leads us to my next post on how to Turn Your dreams into reality with goal setting. Take a look here.