You find yourself in the middle of the year waiting for a sign, well this is it. Get some magazines, a polaroid camera, a glue stick and glitter and start making your Summer Vision Board.
Don’t have the materials, no worries, make yours in Pinterest!
Why create a Vision Board for Summer?
A vision board is designed to help you see what is possible. Put your dreams into pictures to show your brain that it will come true. The reasons to create a specific vision board for Summer is to help focus your energy with in 90 days (92 to be exact). Plus, the weather is good, sun is so beneficial to our overall health and there tends to be a lot of outdoor activities and opportunities to try new things.
The biggest mistake most people make when creating a vision board?
Your 2026 vision board might be collecting dust on a shelf in your room or on in a Pinterest board and that’s okay. You made this mistake. Once you realize it, you can fix it with just 5 minutes a day.
Creating a vision board once and then NEVER looking it again is pointless. Because all the does it fuel the planning side of you. Giving you a dopamine hit in that one hour session. However, to bring your vision board to life you need to look at it every single day. And intentionally look at it. Having it as your phone background is good for a few days but eventually it just fades away into the abyss of every day life.
My favourite habit to recommend to people who want to change their life for the better is to allocated 5 minutes right before bed to look at your vision board. If it is in Pinterest, get ready for bed, turn down the lights and then sit and scroll through each image. Sit with what those images make you feel. And then turn off your phone or tablet and go to bed.
Create your Summer Vision Board
Step One: Your Summer Vibe
Pick 3 to 5 words you want your Summer to feel like (these are not stuck in stone but what is the initial vibe you want summer to be?)
I used words like Crafts, Markets, Events, Baking, and Home Body.
Step Two: Open Pinterest
Head into Pinterest and start searching your keywords. The key with Pinterest is to add the word aesthetic next to your keyword and you will get tonnes of images to pick from.
With your very first image create a new board and name it Summer 2026 or another name you chose. You can decide if you want your vision board visible to everyone or just you. You could even invite your friends to it if you want.
Note: you can stop here and use your Pinterest Board as is using the tip above. But if you want a desktop version of your vision board keep going.
Step Three: Download Images
Once you have enough images (I had over 60 to start with) then it is time to download them to your desktop.
Step Four: Open Canva and create a desktop wallpaper design
Once your create the desktop wallpaper design upload all the pins you downloaded into Canva.
Step Five: Create your Vision Board Desktop Wallpaper
This is the time to put on some music, relax and create. Put all the images into the Canva design, play around with the placement. Add elements, quotes and anything else you feel aligned to do.
Step Six: Download the Design and Save it as your wallpaper
The last step is to put it on your desktop. I do this because I look at my desktop every single day. Multiple times a day. It is a place that I frequent enough for it to be a good touch point to see all the images of where I want my life to go in the near future.
Remember, creating a vision board is an exciting time to explore all the possibilities. It can feel overwhelming or far fetched but if that’s the case select fewer words or ideas when start your vision board and get even more specific like Summer Vision Board: Craft Edition. And focus on the next 90 days, this season. Where do you see yourself in the next few months?
Happy Creating!