Why Only Visualize Your Life Once a Year?
Vision boards are the fresh start of the year that everyone says will make you want to embrace your goals and accomplish them. The motivation of visioning your goals to push you to actual get them done. This is a good tool that can work with a specific mindset. But for others, it doesn’t help with the commitment to those goals.
Is there a method to ensure that a vision board remains effective beyond its initial creation?
Currently, I’m trying to give this idea a go.
I never understood how the vision board could work. Just images that don’t help with doing the tasks that help with committing to those things. But I did think, “This looks cool.” So I created a vision board. I added my goals to be present on the vision board. A well-organized image serves no purpose to me other than looking good.
I mean it does look good. I like looking at it. But that’s where the problem lies. I don’t look at it enough. Even just looking at it doesn’t help with the underlying problem, not doing anything to accomplish those goals. Last year, I made a vision board and it wasn’t really seen until I made the new one. I didn’t print it out. I didn’t make it my wallpaper on my phone or desktop. I just look at it and go, “I want to look at something else.”
The idea is to continue the vision board each month. Cater it to each month. I have looked at the monthly calendar in GoodNotes multiple times a week. So it does work. But how to execute your plans? My goal is just to show up and do it. It’s not hard to sketch a picture each week. It’s not hard to read a few pages a day. It’s not hard to watch a YouTube video of someone speaking Japanese. These are the small goals that will carry your goals.
I make no commitments to real due dates. The ONLY due dates that matter to me are the ones for my library books. The real measurement of my goals is done each month. I wonder how far I am with each goal.
It’s March. I have read 6 books and I don’t feel like I read too much. I didn’t read enough. I can show some drawings that I have worked on each week since January. While I am working towards being fluent in Japanese, I am not quite there yet. But counting and reading Hiragana and Katakana is slow but I can recognize a lot of them.
With all that, what is the point? Make what you want with your life. If a vision board helps remind you what you are working towards, then make one. But don’t let that be the end of your dreams. “A dream without a plan is just a wish.” So put in the work and plan each month or week to help with that vision board.
One tip: Create a vision board each month. It’s a fun activity. This will give you clarity on your goals.
At the end of the year, you will have 12 images that will show what the year looks like. This will help with the next year’s vision board.
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