Creating a Vision Board for the Future: 2024 Planner Ideas

How to create an easy DIY Vision Board without any mess or clean up

Happy New Year! Can you believe it is 2024? It is my favorite time of the year. Why do you ask? I get to setup all of my planners. (Let's face it, all planner babes own more than one planner! It's just a fact.) I'm currently working on my 2024 vision board and I thought it might be fun to explain what a vision board is, and how it can help you achieve your 2024 goals.

What is a vision board? A vision board is a place where you either write down, or place pictures of the dreams, aspirations, and goals you want to achieve for the year.

It can be a big goal of owning your dream home, or starting your own business, to as small as saving up $100 by the end of the month.

I didn't start using a vision board until last year, and let me just say it was very helpful. I had it in my bullet journal, but I also printed and placed it in my bathroom too. This was the first thing I would see every morning while getting ready. A constant reminder of what I want to achieve for 2023. My goals were to promote my craft business, change limiting beliefs about myself, travel, family, and focus on my physical health. I used pictures of places, people, and mantras that all aligned with what I wanted for the year.

"Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build." - Robert Collier

2023 Vision Board

Now that we've figured out what a vision board is, how it is serves as a constant reminder to us on how to achieve our goals/aspirations, let's discuss how to create a vision board.

Step #1 - Choose your media: Digital or Paper?

If you want a no clean up, mess free zone in your house, my recommendation is digital!

You can use Google Slides, Microsoft Power Point or Word, Canva, or a digital planner/journal as the place to host your vision board.

If you choose to go the paper route, you can use a heavy weight paper or poster board. These can be purchased at the dollar store. Another option is to use one of your back pages in your planner, or get a blank paper and glue it onto one of your unused planner pages.

Step #2 - Brain Dump

Make a list of all the goals, dreams, aspirations, or mantras you want to hold onto this year. It can be many things, or just a few. Write it all down. Then pick the ones you want to focus on (I recommend 3-5 things so you do not overwhelm yourself) for this year and move to the next step.

Step #3 - Search on Pinterest

Once you've decided how you are going to create your vision board, picked the goals and dreams you want to focus on for the year, head on over to Pinterest. In the search bar type in, "vision board ideas" to help guide you if you've never created one before. Honestly, there is no wrong way to do this. Trust yourself, and trust the process. If your goal for 2024 is to get better at yoga, type in "flexibility" or "yogi". Pick an image that resonates with you, and add it to your vision board. If another goal is to travel, type in destinations you'd want to visit, or "travel" into the search bar.

Save your pictures onto your phone, or computer. The next and final step is the fun part!

Tip #4 - Create Vision Board

When creating a digital vision board, download all of your photos to the app that you chose. (See Step #1 for my top recommendations) Then play around with the placement and design until you are satisfied with the layout. Save it as a screen saver on your desktop, make it a background on your phone, or add it to your digital planner or journal. I chose to place mine in the front of my digital bullet journal.

2024 Vision Board

Vision boards are a wonderful way to remind yourself of the dreams and goals you have for the year. Log your achievements and accomplishments, big or small. I hope this tutorial helps you with planning for the New Year.

Happy Planning,

April