How Vision Boards Can Help Your Writing Practice
It is natural for people to feel that they need to explain, overexplain, or even plead their cases and tell their stories. Don’t get me wrong, the narratives matter, but there are new approaches that will allow the same stories to be told with fewer words. Vision boards allow the pictures and abstract details to tell the stories of the person creating them. They also help to encourage, motivate, and reenergize as a person prepares for the future. There is a saying that “pictures tells a thousands words”. A vision or storyboard does exactly that. A vision board is a tangible representation of the most important things you might say, do, aspire to do, or have done. It allows your creativity to speak for you. It allows the audience to take a glimpse into the minds of the storyteller. The person creating the board is the storyteller. The best thing about vision boards is that it is one of the most inexpensive ways to take control of your life and motivate yourself at the same time. Vision boards are a multi-functional organizational tool that combines several organizational tools into one. Anything can be expressed through a vision board, professionally, spiritually, and personally. It can be very simple and basic to very intricate and detailed.
Vision boards can take so many shapes and forms because it is unique to the individual. This is what makes vision and storyboards such a reliable and progressing trend. Each person decides what colors, themes, and background that they want to use. For some, vision boards are a great way to express themselves creatively. It allows a person or a group of individuals to come together to laugh, create, inspire, and just enjoy setting goals and sharing them with each other. Vision boards can be catered to meet the needs of any individual, group, or oranization. An individual can create a board that reflects both personal and professional goals. So a board for an individual could consist of the following: salary increase, lessening 10% of debt, spending more time with family, and traveling more. These goals could be represented with a picture of a money sign to represent the salary increase, a budget sheet to represent the debt, pictures of families, and a picture of a plane to represent the traveling. A board for a couple can consist of goals that they have together or it can have both individual and couple goals. A couple of relationship boards could consist of the following goals: planning a wedding, praying together, traveling, and saving for a house. A representation of these goals could be wedding bells, praying hands, a picture of the world, and a piggy bank. Any organization can participate in the vision board glory by getting their board or staff to come together to create a board that represents the mission, vision, and objectives of the organization. A company could want to display meeting employee needs, increasing revenue, increasing morale, and sustainability. A representation of this could include smiling faces, pictures of meeting rooms, steps that go up, and even recycling or going green symbols.
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Vision boards and story boards bring goals and aspirations alive. The process and the end product bring the person alive. The vision and story board process is an engaging experience that helps all that are involved. It brings people together and takes the stress out of setting goals and being accountable. The process of creating a story board or a vision board is the beginning of an enlightening journey that allows people to reflect as they go through the process. It also serves as a visual reminder of the bigger picture, of what is important, and the motivation to not get discouraged no matter the feat.
Creating vision boards and story boards may be trending now, but it is one that seems to have sustainability. As your goals and dreams expand, so can your boards; another feature that makes vision boards so amazing. They can be altered, changed, or even redone. Most people create vision boards for a year and then when the year is over, they create another. However, a vision board can be created to last for as long as the individual wants without recreating. They would simply have to continue adding to it. Individuals who like to push the creativity realm and to be unique can even put a twist on vision boards and create a vision box. A vision box is a tool that can be used to hold memories and evidences of goals that have been achieved. This makes it unique and it can be kept for a longer period of time. It will also allow for constant reflection. The size of the box will determine just how much can be stored and kept. So what are you waiting for? Go ahead and let the vision or storyboard tell the story for you!
