How To: Make a Vision Board the HART Way
There's a lot of talk about making vision boards, but where to begin? Hart shares her process for vision boarding the year ahead, and how she turns her dreams into her reality.
Vision boarding is a powerful tool for me for many reasons. Besides being fun, dreamy, and creative, it’s about taking action. It’s a physical activity that gets your creative juices flowing. It’s more than daydreaming or putting pen to paper but a physical action - taking a literal step, any step - is like a signal to the universe to co-create with you.
Vision boarding is not about casting a wide net and seeing what sticks. It’s important to dream big, but it’s more an ideal tool for being still and drilling down to your deepest needs, desires, and goals. Lacey Phillips (of To Be Magnetic) calls this your ‘Authentic Code.’
Ask: What do I really want and why do I want it? Do I want the fancy car for external validation, or do I need a kickass wardrobe because of pain, shame or programming? Or because it’s what my deepest inner knowing wants and desires to feel whole?
When you desire to manifest from this deepest, truest part of yourself, you will feel more truly deserving of it, and it will come to you. I highly recommend Lacey's courses. They’ve been hugely helpful for me to peel back the onion layers and understand what my most authentic needs are.
This is my process – I am sure there are other great ways.
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Step one: Assess the prior year
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I use the “Wheel of Life” templates. I love these so much that we decided to make our own, which you can download here. The wheel is divided into eight segments including career, travel, family, etc. I spend a couple of hours thinking about what went well, how I can improve, where I was lacking in the last year.
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Step two: Look ahead
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Then, I re-do the wheel again for the upcoming year based on those insights and other pings/downloads from the universe.
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Tip: I keep a note in my phone call “Pings” throughout the year and write down any spiritual downloads I get along the way. I add these to my 2025 goals.
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Step three: Source images
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After putting pen to paper, I dig around Pinterest, my saved Instagram images, and photos from the last year that align with my goals. I download the images to my phone into a dedicated album.
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Next, I manipulate the images in Canva to resize them so that I can print them out and paste them into my journal.
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Step four: Journal
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I bought a larger format journal this year (8x11). I glue the images into my journal and write my goals around them in a collage format. My moodboard is not one singular board on a wall in my house; it’s a few beautiful, inspiring pages in my journal that I can carry around with me. I am considering making a digital collage this year to save as the screensaver on my phone! But for me, I find that printing out/collaging/re-writing my goals around the images is more suited to me. I love the tactile part. I guess I’m old school.
3. What's on your vision board for 2025?
My vision board has a trip to India, office goals, beautiful dinner parties, inspiring interiors, pilates, healthy food, psychedelics, painting with my girls, and imagery that conjures peace (trying to manage my anxiety better this year).
4. Where do you source your images/visuals for your board?
Pinterest and Instagram. Pick images that resonate with you on a deep level; not just because they are ‘aesthetic’.
Don’t be afraid to include images that simply evoke a good feeling; don’t trip up over the specificity. I also look at my own phone. I think it’s important to add images from your own life.
Vision boards aren’t just about new things; it’s also about honoring and celebrating the beautiful things you already have or do, and keep doing them.
Charleston - join me for a vision board workshop on Tuesday, January 21st where we will put pen to paper, manifest, and focus on what we want to call into our futures.