How to create your own vision board

By: Carole Jenks

Supplies:

• Poster board/foam 
• A stack of magazines/newspapers. (Make sure that you have a wide variety of magazines to choose from).
• Glue. (Either a glue stick or rubber cement). 

Steps:
1.)Brainstorm a theme for your vision board. If you aren't sure what your theme is going  to be start leafing through the stack of magazines that you gathered to come up with some ideas. 
2.)Cut out images, words or headlines from the magazines and put them in a pile or in an envelope.
3.) Get creative! Grab the poster board or foam and begin laying out the images and words on it. Throw out any words or images that don't fit in with your theme.
4.) Glue on the images or words that fit into your theme or themes. You can have different themes on each corner of your poster board if you want to. This is your vision board--do what you want with it!
5.)Add writing to your vision board or glue a photo in the middle of the poster board or foam.
 6.)Hang your vision board where you will see it often. For example, you can hang it on the wall closest to your bed. 

Next: My personal vision board.
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Vision Boards: what they are, and how they can help you obtain your goals.

By: Carole Jenks

What is a vision board?

A vision board is a collage of pictures that you cut out from magazines visualizing specific goals that you have, and hope to someday obtain.

What is the point of a vision board and how can it help you? It can help you:

·         Gain clarity of specific life goals.

·         Help you stay more focused.

·         Reinforces your daily affirmations.

Use a vision board helps you gain clarity of specific life goals.

What do you want out of life? What are your goals? For example, to say that you want to be a writer is fine, but you need to get more specific then that. Instead, you could say that you want to break into the children’s magazine market by querying different magazines, submitting manuscripts to magazines, and entering writing contests. This way the more specific you are, the clearer the focus, which helps you seek images that relate to your goals.

Use a vision board to help you stay more focused.

Staying focused on what you want is the main concept of making a vision board. In this day and age staying positive is often hard to do. We are constantly bombarded with negativities which can wreck havoc on our minds both consciously and subconsciously. So what do we do? Create a vision board and place it in an area in which you can look at daily.

Use a vision board to reinforce your daily affirmations.

Vision boards can include not only images but words as well! Think of words, phrases, or sentences that affirm your goals. An example of an affirmation for someone who is a writer could be, “I am a writer, so I write.” The same goes for any intention that you have. Affirmations can silence that negative voice and can release you from those negative thoughts and beliefs.

Upcoming: How to create your own vision board.