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How to Make a Vision Board for Your Financial Journey!
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What is a Vision Board?
Vision boards have always been around, but have recently spiked in popularity!
With an incredible amount of entrepreneurs and small business owners, the “vision board” has become a unique way to keep individuals motivated and on track.
You may have seen these at office desks, in bedrooms, or in kitchens.
For some, a vision board is a large cork board with photos tacked to it, with cut-out pictures from magazines.
For others, it is a notebook filled with pictures found on the internet of their life dreams.
A vision board can be created however you want it to look!
The point of this motivational tool is to place it somewhere that you’ll see daily. You will put pictures of your “vision” of your perfect life in the future.
This can include many different pictures representing:
- Favorite quotes
- Cars
- Homes
- Dream jobs
- Vacations
If you have an issue with maintaining motivation when starting something new, a vision board may be an awesome resource to help you keep working toward your dreams!
In the case of this article, we are going to be talking about building a vision board for your financial dreams.
Why Should I Use a Vision Board?
As stated above, a vision board is a tool that plenty of people use to remind themselves daily of why they have to do what they are doing now, to achieve their goals.
For example, reminding yourself of a vacation you want to take could be all you need to keep you going, but the journey to financial freedom is a rough one.
If you have ever looked at the #debtfreecommunity on Instagram, there are tons of women who are struggling but achieving amazing things as they venture toward becoming debt free.
Walking by a vision board numerous times a day will be a helpful way to never forget your aspirations and goals.
If you are looking for a way to reach your financial goals sooner, and to have a better motivational tool, a vision board is for you!
How to Start a Vision Board:
Decide the Theme
What vibe do you want your board to give off?
Do you want your personal board to fun and colorful? What about monochromatic with bold lettering?
There are endless ways to create a vision board, but we’ll list a few here to get your ideas going!
- Poster board with quotes and pictures of your main goals (home, car, vacations)
- A cork board with polaroid pictures of places you want to visit, and friends/relationships you want to have
- A blank notebook (starting out) with categories of your goals, including: money, health, and happiness
You can go with a clean, minimalist board, or a massive collage of all of your financial goals. You could also add lights to make it more exciting!
Check out Pinterest for some great ideas! And remember, this is all about you and your goals.
Your vision board should represent your personality!
Establish Your Goals
Once you’ve done some research into how you want your vision board to look, you need to consider what your financial goals are.
We always advocate to not think of goals in a dollar amount, but rather in a emotion.
For example, it isn’t recommended that your goals should be: “I want 1 million dollars”. Instead, you could put that you’d like to afford to take your large family on an extended vacation each year.
Or, maybe you’d like to afford a vacation home in the mountains. Maybe you’d want to own a pet shelter without a financial need.
Your goals should be your goals, and not what society tells you that you should want.
Be honest with yourself! If you don’t want an expensive car, then don’t put that on your vision board! If you want to own an RV and travel across America, then put that!
By daydreaming about your goals, it’ll help you come up with what you’d like to put on your board.
As you are going through your brainstorming, write down your goals! They don’t have to be elaborate or time-based. But jot down everything you can think of for now.
You can always change and add to your vision board as needed!
Find Your Content
Do people even read magazines anymore?
When vision boards were popular years back, it was common to see cut-outs from magazines, pasted on boards.
Nowadays, we have Google.
Look at your goals and think about that car, home, job, vacation, and other goals that you’d love to achieve when you reach financial freedom.
Do you want to take a small vacation to celebrate when you become debt free? Look up a resort or place that you’d like to go.
Remember that the idea for this is to remind yourself daily of what you’re working toward!
Some content to look for can include:
- Images you find on Google
- Polariod pictures you take
- Written quotes
How to Create Your Board
This is the fun part!
Let’s review some materials you may want to create a beautiful vision board!
The Board Itself:
Here are some options for what to use for the actual vision board:
Depending on what you want to include in your personal board will determine what you choose. Plus, it depends on where you wish to hang it too!
Hanging Your Visions/Goals:
Keep your board in mind! There are lots of ways to place the pictures onto your board.
You can do a scattered collage of images, or neatly cut each into squares and organize them side-by-side. Check out Pinterest for great ideas!
If you have a cricut, you’ll be in luck! You could really make amazing creations with the precision they provide.
Once you have your board, gather magazines or head over to Google.
Consider your goals and this step is to find images that represent each goal.
Some unique pictures you can look up include:
- Clothes you plan to wear (if you want to give yourself a minimalist wardrobe, for example)
- A mentor you want to establish
- A church (if you want to get involved with a religion or more involved with your current church)
- A bed (if you want to start making your bed every morning as a routine)
Decorations:
Match your vision board with your personality and how you plan your future to look like!
Some unique ways to add flair to your board include:
- Lights
- Thumbtacks
- Glitter
- Cardstock or Construction Paper
- Coins or dollar bills
Decorating is always the best part about the vision board! By this point, you’ll have the board, the photos attached (glued, taped, etc.) and now you’ll get to make it pretty!
Need More Ideas?
Consider the following prompts to think about what to add to your vision board!
- Your favorite motivational quotes
- Charities/people/causes you want to be able to contribute to one day
- Books you want to read
- Your dream job or hobby
- Vacations you want to be able to afford
- The level of fitness you hope to achieve
- A morning routine you plan to establish
- Bucket list ideas
- Foods you plan to eat/Meal prepping
- Your dream home
- The person you want to look like
- The side hustle you wish to begin
- A relationship you want to rekindle, a person to forgive, or a friendship to build
- Remember that you can include pictures of any goals you have!!
Let’s Summarize!
- A vision board is an awesome way to stay motivated when going through your financial journey!
- Make sure to create your board based on your goals, and made to fit your life and personality. There are tons of ideas to visit on search engines like Google and Pinterest!
- We’ve offered tons of ideas of ways to make your vision board unique and all-emcompassing of your life goals. Be sure to consider all aspects of your life, because even your health and happiness affect your wealth!
Thanks for stopping by! Let’s keep learning!
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