This time of year, ads start popping up everywhere promising things like, “New Year, New You!” It’s predictable – and honestly, a little irresistible. A new calendar feels like a clean slate, a cosmic reset button. Make 2026 the year everything finally comes together, right?
Last year, I joined right in with a vision board – and to my surprise, it worked. I went from zero chapters written on my manuscript to eight. Even better, a few new habits actually stuck. A small miracle in itself.
Vision boards are a fun, practical way to help bring our dreams into focus. And yes, it all begins with a dream – but the waking kind. If my sleeping dreams were in charge, I’d be late to work, barefoot, and chased by symbolic farm animals. No thank you.
Here’s how it works.
Choose one area of your life: love, career, family, health, home – pick your priority. Then dare to be specific about what you want. Gather quotes, photos, keepsakes, articles – anything that represents your goal clearly and vividly. If you have multiple dreams (overachiever that you are), make more than one board. Specificity matters because you aren’t just decorating – you’re declaring.
I am unapologetically provision. I believe that when we focus on what we truly want, and then have the courage to ask for it, provision mysteriously follows.
When you aim your attention, resources begin to line up. Not always instantly – but often unmistakably.
Some call this faith. Others call it psychology. Both may be right. A vision board quietly works on your mind every day, nudging your instincts into action. It isn’t fantasy – it’s a visual contract with yourself. The more often you see your goal, the more likely you are to move toward it.
Two important promises help, though:
1. Put your board somewhere you must see it daily.
2. Do not hide it or destroy it when it makes you uncomfortable (been there, done that). When the board disappears, the dream usually slips back into the shadows – still alive, but unmet. Vision boards keep us honest. It’s easy to feel busy and assume that means we’re moving forward, when in truth we may just be treading water very efficiently.
At the end of the day – after the errands, the emails, the obligations – we often decide we’re simply too busy to dream. But unless we are reminded daily of what we want beyond our roles and routines, our dreams will remain pleasant ideas instead of lived realities.
And that would be a shame – especially when provision is waiting on the other side of vision.