Converting our vision boards for 2025 into action boards
By Anelie Petrus-Eniola/
Vision boards, also known as dream boards, can be used as a motivating tool to help us achieve our major goals.
Here are some of the key benefits of creating a vision board: It helps with clarity in terms of what we want in life, it allows us to create opportunities, boosts creativity, motivates us and creates hope.
While vision boards help us to stay focused on our goals, it is also very important that we take action.
According to tunningmotivation.com here are 7 major reasons why your vision board is not working for you.
- The desire is not strong enough
You see your friend bought a new luxury car and you make it your target to buy a new car too.
You see your colleagues traveled and enjoyed her holidays in Paris and took a nice picture of her in front of the Eiffel Tower, and you decided that you want to do that as well.
You see someone earns a 6-figure income per month from the internet and you are tempted to stop what you’re doing and wanted to do what that person does too.
- You don’t believe you can achieve it
A lot of people have the goal of making a million-dollar. But the problem is that when they set the figure as their target, deep down, they don’t believe that they can achieve it.
If you don’t truly believe that you are able to achieve what you want, there is no way you can accomplish it.
- You put in only half-hearted effort
Most people thought that as long as they think about what they want, they don’t have to take much action. WRONG!
If you don’t take action, it means that you don’t believe that you can achieve what you want.
- You don’t feel good about it
You may not notice it, but sometimes, you don’t feel good about the things that you want.
Yes, on the surface you may seem to want to achieve great success in life. But in a deeper, subconscious level, you don’t really want it.
Take building a successful business and achieving financial freedom as an example. This is what the majority of us want.
The problem is that we know that if we want to build a successful business, we need to work hard for it and we must sacrifice our leisure time.
Sometimes, we will even have to let go of our sweet family time and sacrifice our sleep time just to work longer hours to achieve our business targets.
In other words, you create confusions in your subconscious mind: You want financial freedom, but don’t want to work that hard.
You want to be successful in whatever project you pursue, but what if you fail? You want success, but you worry you can’t cope with the new situation.
You want to lose weight, but you worry others may laugh at you if your workout plan doesn’t work.
This is why you must learn how to properly manage your feelings in order to manifest what you want.
And this is also why your vision boards are not working for you.
- You want it immediately
When you look at your vision boards, you visualise the things that you want and you see yourself living your ideal life.
But then after that, you get back to “reality”. Things are not changing immediately and you are still where you are right now.
The problem with most people is that they don’t have the patience and determination. They want what they desire immediately.
When things are not coming their way fast enough, they think that something must be wrong and then they start to doubt themselves.
They start to lose interest and their beliefs are shaken. And eventually, they give up, quit, or change their goals and dreams.
Never let this happen to you. Have faith and have the patience for what you want. If what you do is correct, the results will come.
- You don’t envision what you want
Another major reason why most people fail with their vision boards is that they don’t envision what they want.
They have fun creating their vision boards. They feel motivated when they do that.
However, that’s all that they do. They don’t make time to visualise what they want according to their vision boards.
After they have completed their vision board, that’s it. They put it there on the table. Their boards sit there collecting dust.
They don’t review their goals and their dreams. They don’t take time to envision and see themselves living their dream life.
You have to understand that your vision board is just a tool that helps you better visualise what you want. It is not something that you create for once.
Some people make their vision board for the sake of making it.
- You switch goals and targets too quickly
So what happens if you fail to reach your goals?
Switch. Change a goal. Aim for another thing. Start another new project.
This is what most people will choose to do when they fail to reach their goals or fail to produce the results that they want.
Unfortunately, this is also why vision boards and manifestation do not work for most.
Like I said above, it takes time to manifest what you want. And you must have the patience to wait for it and the determination to work for it. You need attention and focus in order to make your vision boards work for you.
Looking at the above examples it is clear that one needs to work hard in order to turn our vision board dreams into a reality. This can only be achieved when we take action. Use action boards to make things happen. It is important to track your progress.
Here is an example on what to include in your action board.
- Clear goals
- Action steps
- Deadlines
- Visuals
- Motivational quotes
- Progress tracking
- Rewards
- Personal touches
- Relevant metrics and data
Use the vision board as a visual representation of where you need to be but also have a clear plan of how you will get there.
While it is a great thing to plan, do remember this quote: “Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes time. Vision with action can change the world,” – Joel A Barker.
Also see the 7 Major Reasons Why Your Vision Board Is Not Working For You
https://creately.com/guides/how-to-create-an-action-board
– Anelie Petrus Eniola is a communication practitioner and marketing assistant with a heart for community development. She is also an upcoming writer and an entrepreneur at the beehivegroup. Instagram: @beehivegroup
