Printable sheet

The board plan

Fifteen boxes with prompts, so the collecting takes an hour instead of a weekend.

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How to use it

Fill in what each image needs to show before you go looking for it. The prompts follow the four to one ratio, meaning roughly four images of the life around the goal for every one of the outcome, which is the correction most vision boards need. Category by category detail is in the vision board ideas guide.

MyDirection

Board plan

Write what each image needs to show. Collect afterwards, and stop when the grid is full.

Copy the sentence from your direction sheet.
Twelve process, two words or phrases, one outcome. Sketch or describe. Cross out anything that makes you feel behind rather than capable.
Environment
Routine
The craft
People
Evidence so far
A good Tuesday
What is absent
The next step
A boundary
Rest
Someone ahead of me
The unglamorous part
A line I believe
A second line
The outcome. One
One about the direction, one about the process, one about the reason. Use phrasing your own mind does not argue with.
  • Roughly four process images to every outcome image.
  • At least one image of something that already happened and worked.
  • No image that makes me feel behind rather than capable.
  • My own photographs wherever possible.
  • Fifteen or fewer, then three removed.

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Common questions

How many images should a vision board have?

Twelve to fifteen for most people. Beyond that there is no focal point, and a board with no focal point communicates nothing in the seconds you actually give it.

What is the four to one ratio?

Roughly four images of the environment, routine, craft and people around a goal for every one image of the outcome. The outcome supplies the pull and the rest supplies the instructions.

Where do I find the images?

Start with your own photo library, then photograph ordinary things like your desk or your route. Use search images only for what you cannot photograph yet.