The beginning of a new year seems to be the time when everyone is crazy about setting their goals. You really don’t need to wait until a certain time to do it – JUST DO IT!
To help in your goal setting, I suggest creating a vision board. If you’re new to this idea – let me explain.
I know for me as a creative, I like visuals. It inspires me and helps me to imagine things better. A vision board can be used as a visual representation of your goals. Say for example a goal is to have a new car – find a picture of the exact make and model car that you want and glue that to your board.
Steps for creating a vision board:
1 – The supplies
- Board – this is like your blank canvas. Some suggestions are a white poster board, foam board, bulletin board
- Scissors
- Glue , tape or push pins
- Magazines to cut up
2 – Think about what you want for the coming year. I’ve created a worksheet to help you in the planning process. I broke it down into 4 different areas – BE, DO, HAVE and FEEL
3 – Start going through magazines and look for images and words that represent what you want
4 – Put your finished vision board in a place where you can see it every day. You’re training your mind to expect these things to happen. You are Visualizing to Materialize!
Remember this is an ever evolving process. As you reach a goal you can take it off of your vision board and replace it with new things. It’s really up to you how you want to use it.
A couple of months ago I taught a workshop on creating vision boards for local female creatives in Riverdale, NY. It was amazing!
To host this event, I teamed up with my friend Linda Manning – a playwright, screenwriter and actor.
We held it at the KRVC office near Riverdale Avenue. We had about a dozen people and KRVC was generous to supply the space and refreshments!
It felt so rewarding to create an opportunity for local creatives to come together to connect, establish new relationships and start to intentionally put into place what they’d like to create in their life and business for the upcoming new year. Linda and I worked really well together – balancing each other out by bringing in our own unique perspectives and interests to create a cohesive inspiring workshop for all that attended.
Linda and I each attend meetups with other creatives in the city and felt there was a need to bring that same energy here to Riverdale. As a coach, I’m working with entrepreneurial moms to help them think bigger for their lives and businesses so we wanted to share the techniques we both use to stay inspired and bust through our limiting beliefs. It opened up a conversation with the group and allowed for a safe space to share thoughts and ideas.
It was a wonderful experience. I enjoyed sharing it with everyone. Stacey and Linda were terrific. It was lead in such a natural, open and beautiful way — thought provoking and stimulating, definitely meaningful evening for me. Opened up new ideas.
If you want to get started with your own vision board – (and you definitely should!), get yourself a board, glue sticks, scissors and some magazines that you can cut up. There are 4 key areas to think about when creating your vision boards. I created a PDF for you to download with prompts in each of the 4 key areas. Click the image below to get a copy and get started.
If you missed this workshop, no worries – we have more workshops planned in the coming year – on various topics so stay tuned!