Day 1 Freedom Vision Board
Day 1 Freedom Vision Board
Day 1 Freedom Vision Board
And yet, just take a look at the people that have achieved greatest success
and happiness. They didn’t get there by chance. They got there because
they envisioned themselves there.
And most importantly, they turned their goals into plans.
This is what this workbook is about. It’s to challenge you to dream big and
then plan small.
Content
This work book includes instructions and templates for creating your vision
board. You will go through four exercises in total. Exercises 1-3 will challenge you
to do valuable pre-work that will prepare you to create a strong vision board in
the final Exercise 4.
Exercise 1: Dream without limitations
Exercise 2: Define your vision board categories
Exercise 3: Think of goals per vision board category
Exercise 4: Create your vision board
Time
It is up to you how much time you would like to spend on c completing exercises
1-4. You can complete the workbook in one afternoon, one day, or one week.
This is a creative process, so please do what feels most comfortable to you. Don’t
force yourself to complete the exercises under time pressure. Be kind to yourself
and grant yourself the time you deserve.
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The most effective way is to make your vision board manageable by zooming in
to a set time period. This means envision how your freedom lifestyle will look
like. What do you need to have or do to live your dreams?
The process of creating a vision board is to very concretely imagine your life
dreams and goals and put them down on paper in the form of pictures, texts, or
anything else visual. The outcome is to place your vision board where you can
see it every day to have a constant reminder of your new year resolutions.
To be brief, YES and no. It can and WILL work if you do it right. It won’t work if
you don’t do it right, and actually it could do even more harm than good in that
case.
In the terminology of the law of attraction, a vision board is a tool that helps you
visualise what you want to focus your energy on. This includes not only the
ultimate goals, but even more the process of how you get there.
• If your vision board shows you making an income from working from home,
include next to it a picture of your CV that needs to be updated for applying
for remote jobs.
• Is the plan to finally tackle that bikini body, clip your favourite Youtube yoga
channel to the board.
• Dreaming about a new partner? Include a picture of signing up to a new
gym, book club, Tinder, etc.
Exercise 1
The following 9 questions will help you to find out what you desire most in life
and how you can tackle your goals.
Please try to answer every question in the template on the next page. Your
answers will inspire you come up with more specific goals for your vision board
later.
1. What would you do with your life if money was not a factor?
2. Imagine you were given 3 wishes free, what would they be?
3. If you had only one day to live, how would that day look like?
4. If you could write a book about your life, what would you like to read in it?
5. What would you do, if you had absolutely no fears?
6. You are 100 years old and look back at your life, what are you most happy
about?
7. How does your ideal day look like?
8. Imagine you don’t have any limitations, what would you stop doing
immediately?
9. If you had more time in a day, what would you do more of?
10. If there is something that you are envious about other people, what is it?
1. What would you do with your life if money was not a factor?
2. Imagine you were given 3 wishes free, what would they be?
3. If you had only one day to live, how would that day look like?
4. If you could write a book about your life, what would you like to read in it?
This is a creative exercise. Don’t shame yourself for whatever comes into your mind, nobody’s looking! Write down
your initial raw thoughts. The more authentic your answers are, the better.
6. You are 100 years old and look back at your life, what are you most happy about?
8. Imagine you don’t have any limitations, what would you stop doing immediately?
This is a creative exercise. Don’t shame yourself for whatever comes into your mind, nobody’s looking! Write down
your initial raw thoughts. The more authentic your answers are, the better.
9. If you had more time in a day, what would you do more of?
10. If there is something that you are envious about other people, what is it?
This is a creative exercise. Don’t shame yourself for whatever comes into your mind, nobody’s looking! Write down
your initial raw thoughts. The more authentic your answers are, the better.
Your vision board is the representation of your dreams and goals. It is also a
visualisation of how you envision happiness to look like.
And as you know yourself, there are various facets to happiness. To get to a
holistic view, it’s important to consider all factors.
Think of the major aspects of your life. In the vision board template you will find
space reserved for each of these categories, plus additional space to add any
other categories that you find missing.
• Health
• Finance
• Love
• Career
• Spirituality
• Family
• Knowledge
• Travel
Do you find categories missing? Take a moment to write down any category that
you would like to add to your freedom vision board.
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Exercise 3
Now that you have confirmed which categories you would like to include on your
freedom vision board, you’re ready to think about goals.
Remember, you’re already one step ahead because you have answered the
questions in Exercise 1. Those answers are your leading north stars. They are
truly your vision and these could go as ultimate life goals onto your freedom
vision board. However, you’re not finished there. Sorry!
It's important to make your visions more concrete! The next challenge is to
break down your visions and think about steps you can take today, tomorrow,
next month, etc. to get closer to your visions. Capture these milestones onto in
the template on the next page.
Important: This is not a rat race! The idea is not to come up with as many goals
and sub-goals as possible for your freedom vision board. Think of the ones that
truly drive you and give you energy and start working on reaching them. Think of
1 to maximum 10 goals per category.
The template on the following pages includes space for each category to write
down goals that come to your mind.
Health Wealth
Love Career
Write down 1-10 goals per category. Add categories that you miss and leave out categories if they are not
important to you. Remember: add goals that are meaningful to you, quality over quantity!
Spirituality Family
Knowledge Travel
Write down 1-10 goals per category. Add categories that you miss and leave out categories if they are not
important to you. Remember: add goals that are meaningful to you, quality over quantity!
Write down 1-10 goals per category. Add categories that you miss and leave out categories if they are not
important to you. Remember: add goals that are meaningful to you, quality over quantity!
Important! Remember, if not done properly, instead of making you live your
dreams, a vision board might do exactly the opposite. To make sure you can
confidently add the goals you defined before to your freedom vision board,
please review your goals critically, keeping the following things in mind:
• Dream big but plan small! Don’t only think about the ultimate goal.
Envision how you will reach your goal and include the journey towards that
goal into your freedom vision board.
• Quality over quantity! Your job is not to come up with a long list of new life
resolutions. Your job is to listen to your inner voice and visualise your true
goals and dreams of your freedom lifestyle.
• Don’t praise the day before evening time. Only because you put up your
goals, doesn’t mean that the universe will magically do its work. Define
subgoals and action plans on how to truly reach your goals and live your
dreams.
• Don’t brag! Only because you sprinkled some glitter on your freedom vision
board it doesn’t make it a painting for others to admire. This is your intimate
reminder of your goals, not a museum for others to look into your soul.
There’s actually a study that shows that talking about your goals lowers your
chances of reaching them.
• This is not a rat race against others. Focus on what makes you fulfilled and
happy instead of satisfying somebody else’s expectations of you.
MY VISION BOARD
Visualise your goals and sub-goals with the help of images, text, and anything else that comes to mind. This is your vision board and you’re the creative boss! It’s best to print this big - like A2 big at least.