Making a Vision Board for 2025
Enjoy the vision-setting, the goal-chasing, and the celebration of it all.
This 2025 is my third year making a vision board. I can say I know the basics of making one, but at the end of the day, it still depends on your goals, your aesthetics, and what you want.
There are three big steps I do making my vision board: the envisioning, the planning, and putting it all together.
1. Envisioning
All you need is a piece of paper and pen, or a whiteboard and a marker, anything you can write on to, even just a phone if you don’t feel like writing. You don’t need anything else.
I’d imagine this portion as the most gruesome in the vision board making process, because it calls for a lot of reflection and concrete planning for how you want the year to go.
Write down the aspects of your life that you would want to explore or include in your vision board.
These can range from relationships, finances, health and fitness, to spirituality. Most would say to only include four areas of your life, and although it helps to have specific areas of focus, it also wouldn’t hurt to include all that you want.
Again, this is your vision board. You get to have the final say what you want to put in there.
On my end, these are the aspects I included:
- God
- Work
- Finances
- Romance
- Travel
- Fitness
- Friendship
- Church
- Writing
- Studying
It is a lot, even on my perspective. This is where prioritization comes into play. Which aspects do you want to prioritize more? These will be the ones that will be taking more space in your vision board.
Choose a theme/word.
Write down one to three specific words or themes you have in mind for 2025 in each aspect.
This will help you choose your theme of the year as the words appear. In my vision board, the theme that popped up was how I wanted God to be in the center, thus choosing the word God-led as my word for 2025.
With the theme in mind, include 3–5 ideas/goals per aspect.
You don’t need to look at Pinterest yet! This is just to include what your goal is. It can be a picture, a concept, a quotation or a statement. In my fitness aspect, I included 5 ideas: a regular period, a healthy relationship with food, joining a hyrox race, cycling regularly, and finishing a marathon in less than four hours. It also helps to make your goals as concrete as possible.
2. Planning
Once you’ve finished listing everything down, now comes the doom-scrolling portion (kidding!) — looking up pictures! The rule of thumb is simple, the more you prioritize that aspect, the bigger the space it would take up. Since my theme was God-led, I wanted to include a Bible verse in each aspect I have too.
Remember the 3–5 ideas/goals from earlier? Those will guide you with the pictures you want to use. You can go wild and use what you found on the internet, write your own quotations or goals on a sticky note, use your own photos and include yourself in the vision board, whatever you want to do.
Take note that this is also the content of your vision board, so you don’t have to think about what material you want to add for designs yet.
3. Putting it Together
When you’re ready, get your paper, cork board, canva, collage maker, or whatever you’ll be using. Put them all together!
I would put the theme word at the very center of the vision board, and everything else follows later.
You can add stickers, yarns, whatever you want.
Once you are finished, display it somewhere where you can always see it to remind you of what you have and what you are yet to accomplish.
Remember your vision board is yours, and no one can dictate what goes right or wrong with it. Claim it as yours, the same way you claim your goals and dreams too.
Happy 2025!
A little heads up:
- Know that making a vision board for the year lists down the goals and dreams you want to accomplish for the year. So it is not a five-year-plan, or a ten-year-plan, it is just for one year. You can use it as a stepping stone for the long-term goals, but the vision board is just for the year (if you named it vision board 2025.)
- Don’t expect everything to come true. It is called a vision board for a reason. It is what we envision. They might come true, they might not. They might come out better than we expected, or not at all. The vision board is a guide for your progress, and a celebration at the end of the year for everything that has happened.
- Enjoy the vision-setting, goal-chasing, and the celebration. A lot can happen in twelve months. Things might go exactly how you want, but most of the time it doesn’t. Focus on what you can control, and let go of what doesn’t.