Have you ever created a “vision board”? Maybe it was something you did towards the end of the calendar year, in preparation for your New Year's resolution… sort of a visual representation of what you hoped to accomplish in the new year. Well, I have a love/hate relationship with new year's resolutions, and also with the concept of vision boards… no matter what time of year you create them. 

On one hand, I absolutely love the idea of setting goals, getting specific about them, envisioning our Future Self, and feeling all the feelings of already having accomplished our goals. I think that choosing concrete images to create a visual representation of our goals and dreams is impactful because it helps us evoke those emotions, rather than just focusing on a task to complete. We really have to be able to get into that feeling state in order to believe it’s possible for us to reach the goal. 

And, I just like making stuff! So vision boards can be fun. 

But on the other hand, I think that vision boards can be limiting because if they ONLY keep us focused on a perfect, romanticized version of the future we envision for ourselves, then that goal is ultimately going to feel unrealistic and we may find ourselves frustrated on our journey to get to this goal that seems too perfect to actually be true. 

So where’s the answer? Is there a happy medium here? A way to make vision boards really work for us? That’s what I want to explore today.

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