10 Benefits Of Using A Vision Board

10 benefits of using a vision board at work or at home

Vision boards are tools used by people all over the world to assist with clarifying, concentrating and maintaining focus on specific goals.These goals may be about lifestyle, work, financial, healthcare or indeed anything that a person chooses to focus on but works as a visual reminder and affirmation of where you want to head towards. A vision board can also help you to increase understanding of what you want and how you want to get there.

Vision boards often consist of visual representations or images of what you want to do, have, or be in life. They can be big or small, public or private, but they are inherently personal in nature. They are most useful if you use them as ready-reckoners to driving actions or intentions.

All you need is a piece of card, a glue stick, some scissors and some magazines or pictures. Make a collage based on what you like or what you want in the future. The key is to be free and to let yourself be guided by emotion. Try to do it without being disturbed or watched. Don’t judge what you cut out and stick down. Once completed, the key is to stand back, look at the themes that emerge. From there, I find putting it somewhere that you can look back at helps.

1. Motivate yourself

A Vision Board will motivate you to work towards the goals you have set. Producing a vision board will direct your mind to themes, colours, feelings or emotions.

2. Destress

The crafting of a vision board can produce some stillness within a hectic world. Taking the time out to focus on a vision board gives you time for personal reflection whilst occupying your mind and setting a goal so it doesn’t become boring.

3. Be creative and have fun

The board is a bit like a visual wish list. Be creative, be your true self and let things go on there that you’re drawn to. You can work it out later. No one need see what you come up with, unless you want them to.

Most of us stopped glueing, cutting and sticking when we were little. Enjoy the experience. It can be quite cathartic.

8. Get over your limitations 

Often our busy lives make us think things are impossible or beyond us. A vision board lets you fantasise for a moment and be free from the limitations. Once you see your uncontrolled wishes in front of you, you may still think they are beyond you. However, with time you may note a change in your opinion on them. You may find that they become attainable, or that this goal actually isn’t as important to you as you once thought.

9. Condense thoughts

Many big business leaders use multiple vision boards, with each focussing on one set thing (such as work, homelife, dreams). Do what you need to and most certainly don’t let anyone take it from you.

Business vision boards can help to unify thoughts as part of business teams or help condense the views of many to decision makers. Try getting your team to do individual vision boards on a project and then put them up on a wall side by side with no names. What do they say about your team or the visions of your team?

Vision boards can be used to condense your thoughts, help you to see the concepts behind your goals or allow you a way to see wider trends.