Visualize Your Goal With An Inexpensive Vision Board (New Year’s Resolution)

It’s hard to believe another year has passed! And with the new year comes the tradition of creating and writing down your goals. However, some of you may stop here and overlook one crucial step that will help you to reach your target. You need to visualize your goal! And the simplest way to do that is to create a physical representation of your goals (aka a vision board). So, I’m going to tell you how you can create a budget-friendly vision board for the new year.

Below are two separate vision board ideas that should help you create a board that suits your style and space.

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How To Find Pictures For Your Vision Board

After you have thought about what you would like your New Year’s Resolution to be and have put down your goals, you can start searching for pictures that you can use for your vision board. You can look for images in magazines, Pinterest, google images, or on royalty-free image sites like Pexels.

And remember, the key thing is to make sure that the image actually help you to visualize the goal that you created. So, if it doesn’t evoke a connection with any of the tasks that you have for your New Year’s resolution, then you should probably skip it. For example, if I want to start doing more cardio each week, and saw an image of a heart, I don’t instantly think about doing cardio. The image of someone running, on the other hand, helps me visualize my goal better and creates a better connection.

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Create A Vision Board With A Simple Design

After watching a few videos on what other people wanted to add to their vision boards, my initial approach was to create a simple design. That’s why my first thought was to use a poster board as my canvas and put images that represented my goals on it.

So, I thought the best way to do that was to get a poster board or foam board from Dollar Tree and start from there. But you can try visiting some other stores in your neighborhood to see if they have cheaper supplies.

Source: Dollar Tree

Also, you can purchase ribbons, borders, glitter, and other materials to enhance the design of your vision board and make it even more visually appealing.

Design A Vision Board With Rearrangeable Picture Frames

I also wanted to use a sleek (and more put-together) goal visualization tool. So, the next vision board idea that I had was to use picture frames (the best thing about using picture frames is that they can help tie all of the images together)!

Your New Year’s resolutions can also be separated into different frames. For instance, when I came up with this idea, I thought that I could divide my goals into three main categories:

• Career Goals (which would include my goals related to my job, career-related skills, and side hustle)
• Financial Goals (which would include the things that I’m saving for and other financial goals like investing)
• Health Goals (which would include my goals to improve my mental health, physical health, and my relationship with others)

Supplies That You Need For Your Vision Board

To DIY and create your vision board you will need to grab the following supplies:

• 3 11×14 Picture Frames
• 1 Poster Board
• Scissors
• Pencil
• Glue
• Pictures
• Spray Paint or Paint (Optional)

How To Create Your Vision Board

You will first have to prep your frames by removing the paper and painting (or spray painting) the frames the color of your choice. Then, while they are drying, you will need to grab the back portion of the frame and place it on the poster board.

Create three rectangles by tracing the outline of the back of the frame onto the board. Then, grab the scissors and cut them out. Now, you can cut out the image(s) that will help you to visualize your goal(s) and glue them to the poster board. Finally, place the poster board into a picture frame and you’re done!

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Arrange Your Picture Frames

It would also be nice to arrange the picture frames in a pattern that you think suits the room. I’ve included some picture frame arrangement ideas below (the following photos were taken in different lighting). However, if you feel like three picture frames are too much, you can use fewer frames or try smaller ones.

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Picture Frame Arrangement Ideas

What do you think? Let me know what vision board idea you would like to try for the new year. Or, would you try creating a digital vision board or use a different visualization tool?

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