3 Tips to help you create a Digital Vision Board

If you love the idea of creating a vision board to help focus on your goals but don’t have dozens of old magazines lying around, simply create a digital vision board using online resources. This mission is the same: Prioritize what is most important in your life and choose which goals you want to achieve this year.

Once you know what you want, then find images or create artifacts that represent those goals and dreams. Artifacts might be images, but include other things like word art, comic strip type word bubbles, and even drawings to help create your vision board.

The only difference in a digital vision board is you’ll use digital artifacts and you don’t need glue or tape.

Tip #1: Choose Your Medium

Digital vision boards can be made using Microsoft, PicMonkey, or Pinterest.

• Microsoft offers a free desktop app called “Vision Board” which makes placing your photos much easier and more visually appealing than just importing them into Word.
• Google Slides is part of the Google suite and is a great alternative for creating slide presentations (you can then customize the dimensions for your formatting).
• Canva.com is a paid platform with a free version and there are lots of great tutorials on using Canva.
• Pinterest is an easy way to search for photos of your ideal lifestyle and simply pin those to a secret board. If you want to make your vision board public at any time, it’s a simple switch under Settings.

Tip #2: Choose Your Photos

Using digital photos for this project allows you to search from the millions of photos online, which is a vastly larger selection than a few old magazines your mother collects. In this respect, creating a digital vision board is easier and quicker than the “old fashioned” way. Please always value and respect copyright.

• Unsplash.com offers completely free, high-quality photos which you simply download to your computer.
• Stock photo houses offer high-quality photos for which you pay a small fee to use.
• Google Images offers access to millions of images ONLY if you plan to keep your vision board for personal use only and NOT post it online.
• On Pinterest you usually don’t run any copyright risks because you’re pinning those desired photos onto Pinterest, not directly onto your website.

Tip #3: Use Photos that Spark Emotion

Remember that you don’t want the material object you want the feeling you will have when you own it or when you achieve that goal. Make it emotional.

Do you REALLY want the convertible or do you want the freedom and the carefree life the convertible symbolizes? Consider adding words, quotes, or affirmations that speak to you.

In fact, my vision board workshop really focuses on the feelings you want to have in the near future (and how to make them happen).

Tip #4: Keep a Screenshot Handy

No matter which tools you use to create your digital vision board, take a screenshot (or two if it’s large) and save it as your wallpaper on your laptop and phone.

Create a routine (or add it to the one you have) to look at it everyday. Are you getting closer to making this goal happen? Have you accomplished the feeling without what you thought would be the end goal?

Your vision board – either traditional or digital – is simply a tool to help you stay on the path toward your ideal life.