Create a mood board | Visualise your goals

Online training course Conscious Personal Leadership Create a mood board | Visualise your goals

Visualising can teach you

A fun way to visualise your goals is a mood board. Visualising helps enormously in making tangible where you want to go. A mood board is a simple and valuable technique to visualise. Basically, you picture yourself achieving those beautiful goals of yours already. You give your subconscious a clear direction to reach your goals easily and quickly. Thus, you 'programme' your brain, so to speak, to work towards those goals. And gradually, new ideas emerge, or opportunities arise. Especially if you hang or put your so-called 'vision board' in a place where you see it every day.

Did you know that visualising in the evening (just before you go to sleep) is extra powerful? This is because your thoughts in the last 45 minutes before you go to sleep determine what your subconscious focuses on during sleep. Because your brain responds strongly to visual stimulation, the images and words activate your emotions. And those emotions, in turn, trigger the energy to work on your goals the next day: the 'Law of Attraction'.

To create a mood board, you can flip through some magazines and cut out pictures/texts/quotes that appeal to you. Find pictures that represent or symbolise your experiences, feelings and possessions and place them on your mood board. The idea is not to think too much about what you want to cut out, but to let it come as it comes (intuitively). Sometimes a picture/text evokes something in yourself that makes you happy/ sad, has fond memories, e.g. a nice holiday, a beautiful living room, grandma's jar, your nice hobby, your lovely children, ..... When you have enough pictures/texts, start pasting your own moodboard into one.

Besides magazines, you can also work with photos, cards with inspirational quotes or look on the internet. Pinterest or Instagram are also a great help. Anything that inspires you gets a place. Combine images with texts. And also think about a photo of yourself at a very happy moment or a photo that visualises just what you want more of in your life.

Use your mood board to visualise different areas or choose a specific area of your life such as your work.

Keep it neat and be critical: to get a spot on your mood board, choose those elements that appeal to you 100%. So a good tip is not to put everything on the board right away, but first arrange and shuffle or collect some and then decide what to put on the board.

A mood board is personal and says something about you.

(about your feelings, your character, your colours, your past, present and future, your taste, ....) Fun to make, to give to yourself or someone else as a gift! If you still need it, you can type 'moodboard' on Google and then look at images (preferably don't do it and add your own). You can't get this assignment wrong, it's your creation and this one is always right.

You can take an A3 sheet and stick the cut-out pictures on there. Creating a mood board in other ways is also fine, of course. Think of an online version.