Your 2022 Vision Board: Creating Your Future

I used to think vision boards were a waste of time until I took the time to do one! It made a difference to write out what I wanted for the future! I didn’t even have to look five years out – I just needed to get through the current year. A vision board puts your dreams into a graphic format that you can turn into a plan.

Each year, during the week between December 26 to December 31, I work on my vision board. I can also do it the first week of January, but I like to start my year knowing what I want to do – not to say that I haven’t made changes after January, but having something is better than nothing.

I shopped just for my board. Michael’s and Dollar Tree were my places of choice to shop for all the things I needed to make a visually appealing board – ribbons, glitter glue, rhinestones, paint, etc. Dollar Tree gave me foam boards for $1 each!

In 2020, I didn’t want to go into stores during the pandemic, so I created my first vision board online. I repeated that in 2021 and for 2022. I use Canva because they have lovely templates from which you can select. Of course, you can edit them to make them your own.

 

 

My process for creating meaningful boards is as follows:

1. 1. Decide if you are doing a personal vision board, a business one, or integrating the two types. This decision makes a difference in the categories you choose.
   2. Select categories. Common ones include life, spiritual, business, personal, fun, family, mental, self, and finance. I like to use 4-5 all-encompassing categories that give me flexibility for my goals.
   3. Your goals should be SMART – Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-based. It works well to use quarterly measurements to make it easy to track.
   4. Divide your board based on the number of categories, and write in the headings.
   5. I leave one side of my board for my goals to complement the graphics.
   6. Find pictures that best represent your goal and put them under the appropriate heading – it doesn’t have to be exact. If you want a boat, it’s OK to get a picture of a yacht instead of a dinghy and vice versa – it’s the goal that counts.
   7. Make a pdf of the result.
   8. You can print the pdf at Staples or Vistaprint. I get the 8.5×14 size and the more rigid foam that doesn’t bend or break. Add lamination. Get it delivered the next day!
   9. A nice touch after you get your board is to take the glitter glue and some sequins and make the board come to life by adding real

A vision board is not for looking good – it’s to use as your guide throughout the year to create your future. You can easily monitor your actions against those goals without asking anyone. When you see it every day, it also gives you the energy to go out and accomplish what you have on your board.

Try it! You might like it!