What if your dream life is 5 years away? Would you start now? Or in five years, look back and realize, I could have started then.
Time is such a weird concept that we agonize over in certain moments and then watch the months go by like Bella in New Moon. Heartbroken for a future that is gone. And catatonic because what the fuck is going on.
Now, like Bella, you too can get out of that slump if you decided to build a motorbike with a werewolf but for some of us, who don’t have that option let’s adjust for your dream life.
One of the biggest things that happen at the end of every year is that people everyone want you to make a vision board. A board (digital or physical) that has pictures of the life you are dreaming of. Envision if you will. This sounds simple enough but I am going to bet your past vision boards have done zip. Nilch. Nothing at all. Or at least you feel like those images on your board are no where near your reality and they have been on your board for years.
So what gives?
Hold on spider monkey, I am getting to it!
The reason your 2025 Vision Board Sucks is because you are didn’t connect that vision to your current reality. But Marissa, the point of a vision board is to be delusional, shoot for the moon, race through the forest with vampire’s kind of psycho.
I get it. And that is the first step in your vision. Dream Big. Put all those crazy ideas and vision into one place.
Here is where you are going to make your vision board work in 2026:
- Daily Vision Board Meditation
- Scripting
- Daily Habit Reset
- Release
- Adjust
Daily Vision Board Meditation
Making your Vision Board is step 1. That is honestly the easiest part of this process but most people will create the vision and then leave it to collect dust in a Pinterest Board somewhere. You might even think that having it has your phone or laptop wallpaper is enough but it will eventually just blend into the monotony of your day and it won’t have any impact.
A daily vision board meditation is where you set 5 to 10 minutes every day, either first thing in the morning or right before bed to open your vision board and look at each image. What do you feel? What would your life be like when you achieve it. Go through image by image, quote by quote and connect with your vision board on an energetic level. You can even add in music frequencies to help focus yourself during this exercise.
Scripting
Next is scripting out your vision board as if it already happened. Go through each idea on your vision board and journal it out as if you already achieved it. For me, as a published author I would script the moment I open my email to see that I have an offer from an agent. Dive into the feeling, the setting, who you called first when you got the news, really live that moment like it is already yours because it is. Do this for each of your visions no matter how big or how small. This is another exercise that will help you build the connection to your vision on an energetic level.
Daily Habit Reset
Once you start connecting with your vision you have to start taking action. Most people will make a vision board because it’s a fun, aesthetic thing to put together in the moment. And then just leave it and hope for the best. However, you need to show up for your future self.
Complete the Daily Habit Reset Activity in order to see how close you are to living your dream life.
Take a piece of paper and fold it in half (hotdog). In the first column, write a current day in your life. When do you wake up? What is your morning like? Commute? How do you feel after work? What’s your go to dinner? How do you spend your evenings.
I know it seems like a lot but this will help you understand what you doing with your time now.
The second column write out your dream day in your life. This is the version of your life when all of your dreams have been achieved. How do you spend your time? When do you wake up? What do you do for work? How do you dress? What do you have for breakfast, lunch and dinner? Get as specific as possible. You can use your vision board or scripting activities for this part as well.
Once you have both lists, I want you to draw a line from the daily things you are doing now to the dream life. For the most part, there won’t be many lines. When I did this I had just one. This means that your current daily actions are not lining up with the dream life you want to live.
- Walking 7000 steps → body weight goal
- Lifting weights → strength goal
- Writing every day → author goal
- Writing a blog every day → business goal
These are examples of the things I do each day to connect to by bigger life goals. I know if I check off each item on my daily habit tracker I will reach my big goals. There isn’t strict time line to this. It’s about shifting your day to day actions in order to move towards the goals.
Release
Now that you know what your dream life will look like and how it can connect to your day to day. Its time to release all of your past attempts at reaching these goals. There is that self doubt thought of “I haven’t stuck to anything before why would this time be different?” The answer is that you want to try again. Time has passed and you are going to strive for your goal again. It is not going to be perfect but you will make progress. Sit with the past versions of you that tried. Thank them for putting in the work because if it weren’t for them you would not be here in this moment wanting to try again. You can build your dream life scared. Start now.
Adjust
The biggest mistake so many people make when building their vision boards is the need to make it perfect. Everything on that vision board must stay there for the rest of eternity. That is not the case. Remove, adjust, add and repeat. Your life vision is evolving as you move through this world. If there is a concept you put on your vision board in December and by March it’s kind of annoying you. Remove it.
Go into building your dream life with a level of trust in yourself to show up for the things you want. Accept that some things might not be a current goal. That dream might come to fruition in five years, ten years or a way you never thought possible.
Trust in yourself to take the action required to bring your dreams to life.
A vision board works because you put in the action to strive for your dreams.