Vision Board Ideas Generator
Pick the parts of your life this board is for. For each one you get words to put on it, pictures to look for — with the Pinterest search that finds them — and one line to read every morning. Keep the ones that feel like yours and shuffle the rest.
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Pick at least one part of your life above.
Quick answer: a good vision board covers three to five parts of your life — career, money, health, home, travel, love, family, learning, creativity or calm — and for each one it holds a few words that say what you want, a couple of pictures that make it feel real, and one sentence you would be glad to read every morning. Pick your parts of life above and the generator fills in all three for each, with a Pinterest search for every picture so you can find one that looks like your version of it.
How to use it
Tap the parts of life this board is for — as many as you like; tap again to take one off. Choose the year it is for and how many words you want for each part. Every part gets its words, two picture ideas and an affirmation. Show me different ideas shuffles all of them; the link keeps exactly what you see, so you can send your board to a friend or open it again on your phone. Copy the list puts it in your notes, and Print it gives you a clean page to cut up or stick next to a paper board.
Vision board categories
The parts of life above are the usual vision board categories: Career, Money, Health & body, Home, Travel, Love & relationship, Family & friends, Learning & growth, Creativity and Calm & mind. Pick three to five. A board that covers every category has nothing it is mainly about. Each category gives you words to put on it, pictures to look for and one affirmation, and you can mix categories on one board.
Vision board prompts and questions
Not sure which categories to pick? Answer these first, one line each. The answers point at your categories and give you your first words. Print this page and it works as a worksheet.
- What do I want more of this year, and what do I want less of?
- What would a good ordinary day look like a year from now?
- Which one change would make the others easier?
- Where do I want to go, and who do I want to go with?
- What do I want to learn or make with my hands?
- What do I want to feel when I look at this board?
These are our own prompts, not a test. Skip the ones that don’t fit.
How to make a vision board, step by step
- Decide what the board is for. Three to five parts of your life is plenty. A board that tries to cover everything ends up saying nothing.
- Write the words first. One short phrase per goal — "Run a 10k", "Six months saved", "Finish the first chapter". Specific beats grand: a phrase you can picture beats "success".
- Find a picture for each phrase. This is where Pinterest earns its place: search the phrase, save the pins that look like your version of it to one board, and pick the best from there. Each idea above links straight to that search.
- Add one sentence per part to read every day. Present tense and about what you do, not what you wish would happen: "I move my body every day because it feels good."
- Put it together where you will see it. A corkboard over the desk, a Pinterest board, or one image you set as your phone's lock screen — a board you only see once a year is a poster.
- Turn each part into one next step. The board shows where you are going; the week still needs the first small thing to do about it.
Paper, Pinterest, or your phone?
A paper board is the classic: magazine cuttings and printed pins on a corkboard, somewhere you walk past every day. A Pinterest board is the easiest to start and to keep changing — make it secret if you would rather nobody saw it. A phone or desktop wallpaper is the one you will see most often: a lock screen is looked at dozens of times a day. Many people keep all three: collect on Pinterest, print the favourites, and make one image for the phone. For a single image of your board at the size Pinterest and phones use, the free Pin Designer turns your favourite photo and your words into a 1000×1500 picture in the browser.
What makes a vision board work
A vision board is a planning and motivation exercise, not a promise: it helps in the way a written goal helps — it makes you decide what you want and keeps it in front of you. Nothing about the board itself makes the goal happen. That is why the steps above end with a next step for each part, and why the affirmations here describe things you do ("I finish what I start") rather than things that will happen to you.