How to Create a Vision Board for 2026 (ULTIMATE GUIDE)
Even though most of us think about creating a vison board at the end of a year or the start of a new one, you can really make one ANY time you want to! Whether it’s the start of a month, a new season, a new moon or full moon – it’s always a good time to create a new vision for your life!
If you’ve never created a manifestation board before, or if you just want some new ideas for creating one, then this post is for you!
Let’s discuss everything you need to know about how to create a vision board!
Choose Your Vision Board Style
The “traditional” vision board is usually created in a physical medium, like a poster board, notebook, corkboard or even your planner. You can cut out magazine pictures (but who has those anymore?) or even buy a book of vision board pictures on Amazon. Or you can print your own pictures using your printer or photo printer like a Selphy or Sprocket.
Pros of using a physical medium as your vision board:
- You can place it somewhere you can see it every day, like in your bedroom or office/study area.
- Creating something physical means you have to choose every item with intention and interact with it as you cut/print/paste it.
- You can anoint your vision board with manifestation or ritual oils, infusing it with extra intentions.
- You can light candles around it to activate it and bring extra energy.
Cons:
- You can’t take a physical board with you everywhere like you can a digital board (although you could take a picture of it!)
- It’s not as easy to change as things manifest in your life.
- Other people could see it.
If you love all things digital, you can create a digital vision board or even a video!
Digital vision boards can be created using:
- A private Pinterest board or Instagram collection
- A Pinterest collage
- A photo album on your phone
- A vision board app
- A collage on canva and set as your phone or tablet lock screen
- Or anything else you come up with!
Pros of creating a digital vision board:
- You can take it everywhere with you.
- A vision board video can help invoke the feelings of already having what you want. Plus it creates a visual imprint in your mind, helping your subconscious feel like it’s already happened.
- You can change it whenever you want.
- You can move things from your vision board album to a manifested album, keeping track of everything you’ve manifested.
- You can add to it whenever you find something inspiring.
Cons:
- A digital vision board can feel less concrete – like it doesn’t really exist.
- It can be *too* easy to add to it, which can make it harder to be intentional about manifesting specific things.
The point of creating a vision board is to do what feels best to you. You could even experiment with different methods and see which one works for you. Or do a combination of everything!
Brainstorm Ideas
Once you’ve decided which medium you’d like to use, it’s time to brainstorm ideas of things you’d like to manifest!
If you’re interested in learning how to create a vision board, you might already have some specific ideas of things you want to call into your life.
But if you haven’t really thought about it yet, now is the time to get those ideas out on paper.
I like to take out a piece of paper and write down anything that comes to mind.
Whether it’s how I want to feel, how I want to look, how much money I want to make, trips I want to take, people I want to meet — anything that comes to mind, I jot it down on paper.
This gives me a direction to go in when I’m gathering my pictures and getting things ready.
Sometimes it helps to create a brainstorming Pinterest board to keep all of the ideas and refer back to them later.
If you’re doing this over a couple of weeks, you might go back and realize that you don’t really want something or what feels better to you now is something different.
The whole thing about vision boards is that you might change your mind over time and THAT IS WHAT YOU WANT.
Give your dreams a chance to evolve and go with the flow and trust yourself!
With brainstorming, the key here is to add anything and everything to your list that you eventually want to manifest.
Some ideas are:
- Places you’d like to travel to.
- Specific amounts of money you’d like to attract.
- Job or career goals.
- Things you’d like to learn, like a new language or specific class you’d like to take.
- Grades you’d like to earn in your classes or courses.
- Certificates or diplomas you’d like to earn.
- A raise or promotion.
- Health/body image goals.
- Things you’d like to buy or aesthetic you’d like to create in your life.
- Pictures of things that evoke specific feelings you’d like to have in your life, like success or romance.
- Traits you’d like in a romantic partner, friendship, boss, or job.
- Your dream home or apartment.
- Motivational or inspirational quotes that represent how you want to feel and inspire you to know you can have what you want.
Or you can just start saving ideas as you see them, and not set any specific intention at all. Keep in mind that if you don’t have anything specific you want to manifest, you’ll probably manifest the essence of what you want – not necessarily the specific thing you put on your vision board. OR you might manifest EXACTLY what you put on your board, so be very careful about the specific images you place there.
Gather Your Supplies
Obviously it depends on what medium you chose – if you’re creating a Pinterest board then you don’t need supplies at all!
But if you want a physical vision board, then definitely start gathering up the things you need.
When I’m creating a physical vision board, I like to gather up magazines and also find pictures on the internet, or Instagram, or Pinterest, or things I’ve taken a screenshot of on my phone.
I pull them all out and put them together in canva or photoshop and print them out. I also get out my glue sticks and whatever else I need.
You can add stickers, sequins, trinkets, even crystals. Anything you can fuse with intention to help you achieve your goals.
Once you have all of that done, it’s time to put it all together!
Or maybe you’ve already been doing this as you go – but start putting the pictures, lists, words, quotes, trinkets — all of it together on your app or poster board or pinboard or paper… whichever medium you chose.
Add color if you want!
Write out things and paste them on — but most importantly: HAVE FUN!
And you can always paste over it or delete it or change your mind. Just get in the zone and go for it! Get messy! (Or get digitally messy? Whatever works. lol)
Step 7: Infuse your vision board with intention and feeling.
One thing people often overlook when learning how to create a vision board is that it’s extremely helpful to infuse your board with intention.
I like to look at my board and take a moment to center myself.
You can use a clear quartz crystal too — hold it when you’re looking at your board and infuse it with the feelings of achieving your goals.
How will you feel when you reach them? What will life look like?
Hold the intention of being excited and having gratitude for what you’ve accomplished or manifested. Feel the feelings of having it right now.
If someone walked up to you on the street and handed it to you – what would that feel like?
What would it feel like to have the boss call you and offer you the job? What would it feel like to have someone give you exactly what you wanted?
Feel those feelings for a minute or two. Infuse your vision board with some power!
Step 8: Where should you put your vision board?
You don’t have to display your vision board in a conspicuous place unless you WANT to.
In fact, sometimes it’s better to place it somewhere you don’t see it all the time so that you can sort of “set it and forget it.”
But if it feels good to you to have it out somewhere you can see it all the time, then DO. THAT.
You can set your vision board as your computer background or phone background or take a pic of it to look at frequently.
I’ve even made private youtube videos set to music so I can really look at my goals as a sort of mind movie.
Whatever feels good to you is best.
Step 9: How often should you refresh your vision board?
How often should you “check-in” with your vision board? Again, this is going to be intuitive – but I recommend at least once a quarter.
It’s good to have a goal refresh – you can create a whole new board if the old one doesn’t feel good to you anymore.
But you might find that you’ve already manifested most of the things you wanted, so it’s time to remove those and add new things!
The interesting piece to really creating goals and visions for your life is that they seem to manifest FASTER.
It goes back to the whole “ask and you shall receive” principle to manifesting — the universe loves to have a job and will knock it’s socks off to show you it loves you and wants you to have what you want.
So if you check back in say, March and you’ve already gotten most of what you wanted, then you might want to check in sooner next time!
In Conclusion: How To Create A Vision Board
The whole point of the vision board process is to infuse your life and dreams with some practical magic.
It’s why I love adding power to my goals with meditating, journaling, and feng shui – everything that infuses my life with more of what I want is going to help my dreams manifest faster!
But the point is to have fun and not hold on too tightly — if you are always concentrating on NOT HAVING what you want, then you will continue to not have what you want!
So if you find yourself holding on to the vision too hard — constantly saying to yourself “why is this not happening for me?” then it might be time to “set it and forget it” just a little bit more.
Think of it as ordering something. You hopefully don’t expect something you ordered to NOT show up, right?
Place your order to the universe and then trust it’s going to come. Feel the feelings of having it as often as it feels good to you.
And then go about your life, being excited for that thing to arrive. Create the space for it to come, and it will! Like magic. 🙂
Now that you know how to create a vision board, you might also want to check out:
- How to Write a Manifestation List (That Actually Works!)
- Manifestation Writing Methods: How to Manifest by Writing
- 6 Common Manifestation Board Mistakes (And How to Fix Them!)
