My lat­est post for MomDot.com is on vision boards and I thought I’d post some other pic­tures of my vision board and explain how you can cre­ate your very own.

Here is my vision board. It is impor­tant to place your board in a promi­nent place where you will see it every day. My vision board is directly in front of me when I’m sit­ting at my desk.

For me, my vision board encom­passes my dreams, hopes, aspi­ra­tions while pro­vid­ing inspi­ra­tion on my cur­rent writ­ing project. I’ve posted pic­tures that remind me of items from my book as well as a mock cover with my cur­rent title. I’ve also added things like my dream car, liv­ing in Spain, and meet­ing the Pope!

You can cre­ate your vision board a num­ber of ways-including dig­i­tally. I used a cork board because I think it’s pret­tier and much eas­ier to add or remove things than a reg­u­lar poster board. It is also a lot stur­dier for heav­ier items.

I think it’s impor­tant to cre­ate a board that reflects who you are. I like the lay­ered, some what messy look, but if you’d pre­fer yours to be more geo­met­ric and orga­nized that is fine. Remem­ber it should reflect who you are.

The most impor­tant things about a Vision/Dream board is that you are pos­i­tive. You want pos­i­tive affir­ma­tions and intent here.

What you’ll need:

To make my vision board I scoured the inter­net for pic­tures that reflected my aspi­ra­tions, dreams, goals. I com­piled them all into a folder and when I had enough I printed my favorites. Next I went and did the same thing for mag­a­zines. I also clipped let­ters and phrases that I thought fit. I used scrap-booking sup­plies to per­son­al­ize it fur­ther and look a lit­tle more polished.

When I was done I had a board that truly reflected my goals and big dreams. I also had some­thing that made me happy just to look at. If you haven’t made a vision board yet, I highly rec­om­mend that you do.

I want to live in Spain and learn to play the piano well.

Meet­ing Justin Fursten­feld of Blue Octo­ber would be freak­ing fantastic!

Most of my vision board/dream board per­tains to my writing.

It is impor­tant to envi­sion how you would feel when you accom­plish your goals or expe­ri­ence your dreams com­ing true. That is why I added the phrase “try not to pee your pants” to my “Get Pub­lished” intent. I think when I learn that a piece of my work is actu­ally get­ting pub­lished I will find it hard not to pee my pants!

I will have these boots one day. I will!