Vision Board Examples
Ten finished vision boards, each made with our free vision board maker: for a career, health, travel, a couple, a student and more, as a pin, a phone lock screen, a desktop wallpaper or a page to print. Pick a part of life to see its boards, then open one and swap in your own photos.
10 finished boards
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An all-round vision board for the year
On it: Promoted · Do work I'm proud of · Run a 10k · Eight hours of sleep · See the northern lights · A week with no plans
Three parts of life and no more. Each has one goal you can check in December (a promotion, a 10k, the northern lights) and one you feel (work you are proud of, real sleep, a week with no plans). The flower-field photo gets the big square because it sums up the year in one picture, and at 2:3 the board saves straight to a Pinterest board.
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A career and money vision board
On it: Lead the project · Ask for the raise · Pay myself first · Invest monthly
A 1920×1080 wallpaper for the laptop you work on, on white so it sits quietly behind your windows. Money is next to career on purpose: a raise only changes your year if some of it is saved. Every line is something you do (lead, ask, pay yourself, invest), not a result you wait for.
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A health and fitness vision board
On it: Cook at home · Drink more water · Strong, not skinny · Walk every day
A phone lock screen, because a health habit is usually kept or skipped with a phone in your hand, first thing in the morning and last thing at night. The Pinboard layout keeps each photo at its own shape. Every line is a habit you repeat, like cooking at home or a daily walk, rather than a number on a scale.
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A travel vision board
On it: See the northern lights · Passport renewed · One new country · Travel light
A dream sits beside the paperwork that makes it happen: the northern lights next to "Passport renewed", the step people forget until the week before. The map and the camera say plan; the flower field and the café window say arrive. Sky blue keeps it light without fighting the photos.
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A home vision board to print
On it: Plants everywhere · A reading nook · Our own place · A room that's finished
Sized for US Letter at 300 dpi, to print and pin above a desk or slide into a frame. Two lines are big (a place of your own, a room that is finished) and two can be done this month (plants, a reading nook), so the board has something to tick off early.
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A vision board for couples
On it: Travel together · Slow Sunday mornings · Weekly date night · Phones away at dinner
Every line is something you do together, not something one of you wants from the other, which makes it a good board to make as a pair, with a photo from each of you. Blush and the Pinboard layout make it feel like a scrapbook page, and the note beside a cup of tea stands for saying it out loud.
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A family and friends vision board
On it: Host the holidays · Family photo on the wall · Sunday calls home · Game night
A lock screen for the person who keeps meaning to call. The photos are of people and tables rather than places, because every goal here is time together: a Sunday call, a game night, hosting the holidays, a printed family photo on the wall.
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A vision board for students
On it: Finish the course · Journal daily · Less scrolling · Read 24 books · Learn a language
A wallpaper for the computer you study on, so it is there every time you open a lecture. Notebooks and a calendar, not graduation caps: the board is about the daily habits (a journal, less scrolling) that get the course finished and the 24 books read.
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A creativity vision board
On it: Fill a sketchbook · Open the shop · Make something every week · Share my work
The only dark board here, and paper, fabric and ribbon glow against charcoal. The goals are about output, not talent: make something every week, fill a sketchbook, share the work, open the shop. Five photos in the Pinboard layout keep each one at its own shape.
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A calm and rest vision board
On it: Screens off at nine · Nature every weekend · Slow mornings · Say no without guilt
The quietest board: sage, four photos of cups, windows and notebooks, and goals that are really limits, like screens off at nine and saying no without guilt. A calm board works best with few words, so this one stops at four.
Make this board yours
The photos are PinPinterest's own images, made for our blog. On your board, use your own photos: pictures of your place, your people and your plans work better than anyone else's.
Quick answer: a good vision board covers one to three parts of your life, puts four to six short goals on it (some you can check, some you can feel) and uses three to five photos of the thing itself, sized for where you will see it: a phone lock screen, a desktop wallpaper, a pin or a printed page. The ten examples above follow that pattern. Open any of them in the vision board maker, add your own photos and it becomes yours.
How to use these examples
- Pick the part of your life you care about most this year with the buttons above the boards. The page shows the boards for it; "All" brings back all ten.
- Tap "Make this board yours". The maker opens on that exact board: the same title, words, layout, background and size, with our photos as placeholders.
- Add your photos. They take the places of ours, in order. Tap one on the board to move, crop or remove it.
- Change the words. Turn parts of life on or off, press "Other words" for a different pair, or type your own. Your own words go first.
- Download it at the size you chose, or switch sizes first. On a phone, Download opens the share sheet, where "Save Image" puts it in your photos.
What the ten examples have in common
- Few parts of life. Most boards here cover one part, and the busiest covers three. A board that covers all ten parts of life says nothing in particular, and you stop noticing it within a week.
- A goal you can check beside a goal you can feel. "Passport renewed" sits next to "See the northern lights", and "Ask for the raise" sits next to "Lead the project". The first kind tells you whether the year went to plan. The second kind is what makes you want to look at the board.
- Actions more than wishes. Most lines are something you do: cook, walk, invest, host, finish. None is a word like "abundance" that you cannot act on.
- Photos of the thing itself. A yoga mat, a map, a dinner table. Picture the moment you want, rather than a symbol of it.
- A size chosen for where it will live. A goal you do daily goes on the phone. Work goals go on the laptop. A shared goal goes on a printed page in the kitchen. A board you save to Pinterest is a 2:3 pin.
Which kind of vision board to make
A phone lock screen (1080×1920) is the one you will see most, dozens of times a day. It suits habits: health, calm, calling home. Keep it to four goals, because a lock screen is read in a second.
A desktop wallpaper (1920×1080) suits work and study goals, because it sits behind the screen where that work happens. Choose a light background so it stays quiet behind your windows.
A pin (1000×1500) is Pinterest's own 2:3 shape. Save it to a board and it sits beside the pins that inspired it.
A printed board (US Letter or A4 at 300 dpi) is the classic: pinned above a desk, stuck on the fridge or put in a frame. It is also the best choice for a board you make with someone else, like the couple's and family boards above.
The layout is taste. Grid is calm and even. Collage gives the first photo a big square, so start with the picture that sums up the year. Pinboard keeps each photo at its own shape, like a Pinterest board.
Make it a Pinterest board too
Many people collect the pictures for a vision board on Pinterest first. Search each goal, save the pins that look like your version of it, and keep them on a secret board if you would rather nobody saw them. Then pick the best few for the finished board. Our vision board ideas generator suggests what to search for in each part of life, with the Pinterest search that finds it.
Where the photos come from
The photos in these examples are PinPinterest's own images, made for our blog, so we can show them and you can open them in the maker. They stand in for yours. Your own photos make a better board: your street, your people, the trail you want to run. If you share a board publicly, use your own pictures or ones you have the right to use, because other people's photos belong to them.
What a vision board is, and what it is not
A vision board is a planning and motivation exercise: one picture of what you want the coming months to hold, placed where you will see it. It is not a promise, and it does not make anything happen by itself. People find it useful because choosing the pictures forces you to decide what you want, and a goal you look at every day stays in mind. Next to each goal, write the first step somewhere you will act on it.