2025 Vision Board
Leading my first event
Here at our co-live/co-work hotel, we’re encouraged to host our own events. If you read an earlier post about the community meeting, I had volunteered to lead a yoga class. Unfortunately, I got sick and had to cancel, but I ended up leading a different event:
New Year Digital Vision Board.
In past years, my vision boards would stay tucked away in my Pinterest. I had zero direction and most of what I would put were influenced by things I thought I should want.
I should want things that signaled beauty and status.
I should want luxury living and experience.
I should want business success and money.
I should want the beach bod decorated in gold and linen.
“Ah, the fleeting desires of youth,” I hear my thoughts say in the voice of that ancient turtle from Kung Fu Panda. Or Dumbledore.
These are all big wants. They aren’t bad. To an extent, it’d be super cool to just put pictures of them on a board and then happen upon all of them coming true without doing anything else.
While creating a vision board that looks like this was fun and could be fulfilled if it’s what I wanted, it was a collage of pictures that only inspired envy. I only saw a life drastically different and emotionally detached from who and where I wanted to be. It had little to no expression of the heart of what I truly desired for my life.
I lacked a plan of action. I had no clarity of what my life would look and feel like on a daily basis with those things; zero acceptance of who I would have to become in order to handle the specific responsibilities that came with having those things.
Vision boards are meant to reflect a life you don’t have quite yet, but it should be a window into a future you resonate with and believe in. They can include wild feats of achievement and experience. They can overwhelm you.
The key, though, is that they re-enforce conviction; that they make the belief in your own capabilities stronger, not weaker. This was a huge paradigm-shift for me.
So as the group of us sat on couches looking at our computer screens, I offered some journaling questions to help everyone dial into their own desires and dreams. We spent time reflecting on 2024.
Using our own past experiences helped highlight specific goals for 2025.
I used to let the past hinder me.
Identifying with the mistakes, disappointments, and missed opportunities put me in an unending cycle of self-disbelief. It wasn't until I realized that those pain points could inform me on more specific, authentic desires:
If I separate who I am from what happened, then how can those events show me where I want to be next year? What versions of who I’m supposed to be do I need to shed to earn back my self-esteem? Instead of thinking about all the ways I could have been successful this past year (or 5, 7, 10 years ago) had I made different choices, how can I support my own success moving forward with the decisions I’ve yet to make in 2025?
I have big dreams for a decade from now, but what dreams do I have for myself 6 months from now? Somehow, this is harder. Dreaming is fun when we think we have years of planning and procrastination ahead, and for now it can all live in the future. Goals that only have a year to flower are more daunting. That means we have to talk about daily habits; small actions that lead to the big win.
Time is always the mountain.
Specific daily actions is the clearest route.
Belief is the wind beneath your wings.
It is the mixture of these variables that must infuse the photos on that vision board in order to inspire and re-align you as you move through the next 12 months; 52 weeks; 365 days.
That is how your New Year vision board becomes reality.
Below are the tools we used to get crystal clear on how to make our 2025 Digital Vision Boards unshakable (accessible exclusively to paid subscribers).
Begin by answering the following questions: