Should you have a Vision Board? I know a lot of people wonder that and probably don’t think there’s any benefit to having one. But the truth is that most people would benefit from having one, especially a Portable Vision Board.
Who Needs a Vision Board
Everyone can benefit from a Vision Board. It’s a visual representation of your goals. But, let’s face it, there are some people who just need to think of their goal, and they’re good to go. Others just need to write them down in a list. But that doesn’t work for most people. If you are a visual learner, then a Vision Board is perfect for you. According to a Forbes article, 65% of the population are visual learners, that’s why InfoGraphics are so popular. Probably why Pinterest is so popular, too.
There are three types of learning styles. Auditory, Tactile, and Visual. Auditory or verbal learners represent 30% of the population. They learn by hearing and listening. Auditory learners would benefit most from affirmations/goals that they speak out loud. Another 5% of the population are Tactile or Experiential learners. They learn by doing and touching and would benefit from the process of creating a Vision Board and making it interactive. For a visual learner, pictures of your goals make them tangible and real for you. Being able to see your goals laid out in front of you connects them to you.
Both Visual and Tactile learners would benefit from creating Vision Boards. I’d say even an Auditory learner would benefit if their Vision Board were made of different affirmations that they can then repeat out loud. But, truly, it’s the Visual and Tactile learners who benefit the most. That’s 70% of the population. So most people would benefit from a Vision Board.
Why Your Learning Style is Important
For a Tactile learner who learns by doing, creating the Vision Board will benefit them. A Tactile learner needs to do, build, draw, and touch in order to learn. Finding pictures of their goals, physically cutting them out, and then gluing them to a Vision Board. These are all activities that will help a Tactile learner better remember their goals.
But creating a Vision Board for them would still be a one-time thing unless they created one that invited touching. Possibly using puff paint to write goals so that the Tactile learner can trace them with their finger. Or hiding a goal behind a flap of paper that needed to be lifted. It’s also why the accordion style of a Portable Vision Board is perfect for a Tactile learner. While this might sound silly to an Auditory learner, a Tactile learner needs to be able to manipulate something to learn. So a more interactive Vision Board would be perfect for them.
For a Visual learner, seeing pictures of their goals will help This is why a Vision Board is perfect for a Visual learner. Having all of their goals laid out in one format will be a daily reminder to them. It’s not just seeing pictures that help Visual learners, but reading words, too. So pictures with written out goals or affirmations all help. It’s seeing of these words and pictures that are best for a Visual learner.
What’s Your Learning Style?
If you are unsure what type of learner you are, here is a quiz that will help. It’s important to know this information so that you can create the Vision Board that works best for you. I am a Tactile Learner. I learn best by doing things. Visual is a secondary learning process for me, but Auditory does nothing for me except create the best sleeping conditions. I’ve tried saying affirmations in the past, but it’s so frustrating that I give up after one day. Doesn’t do a thing for me.
Teaching yoga was easy because I was active while learning and active while teaching. But learning what I was going to say during a presentation? Not possible to do while just sitting at a desk. I would practice what I was going to say while hiking or bike riding. Yes, I would take a bike ride and practice what I was going to say during a presentation for work. I think being a Tactile learner is why I also like to start all my writing in longhand form. Yes, typing is very tactile, but for me, longhand writing is comforting. So that’s where I start.
What’s your learning style? What type of Vision Board would be best for you?
I’m a tactile learner too, and I agree about the creation process being helpful. Not least because it sifts out the “maybe” from the “I really want”. Interesting piece – I hadn’t thought about learning styles for an age!
It’s difficult to be a tactile learner in a schooling system. I coped through my “brilliant” note taking and doodling techniques (and fidgeting.) My poor son didn’t fair as well and after years of struggling with different schools, I pulled him out to homeschool him because he needed to be hands on with his learning. He’s a Massage Therapist now, guess he really liked hands on learning!
I am a tactile learner too. I have a vision box instead of a vision board.
I would love to hear more about what you put in your vision box!
I’ve never actually made a vision board but it sounds like an interesting idea!
It is interesting and fun to do.
I’ve just this week made one to help with my writing!
That’s great, Ritu.
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Excellent post and well constructed. Apart from learners those with depression cycles are encouraged to use lists of schedules in order to start doing things rather than dwelling and overthinking about lots of things all at once. A CBT tactic and extremely useful to escape patterns of behaviour that cause the negative mind to sit in a comfort zone. A vision board is not so disparate in that, for someone like me who writes, to ensure projects remain on track and with a goal objective where the links lead. Its entirely possible as a fiction writer my imagination is acting like a vision board when it’s active and creating. I really ought to create a physical one too after reading this 🙂
Thanks for the feedback. A vision board can be for any length of time. I tend to look at life goals when creating mine and then break them down further until they become items on a to-do list. But a vision board can even be just for one thing, one project….one book, perhaps?
I think its a good system for doing exactly what you just said; Big project goal and broken into achievable chunks. I have several in my head that would work better written down as then it becomes more in your face and tangible. I shall tackle this imminently 🙂
I can think of one project for you right now….figuring out who gets the golden ticket.
I so knew you were going to say that!!!! Maybe I should follow surfer dude and see where it leads for now!!
That could prove interesting! Although it sounded like it might not lead somewhere for very long with him.
Quite right, rather like Smithy they are ground zero. Once he’s travelled to his destination I already have him surplus to requirement from the virus perspective sadly.
Once he’s traveled to his destination….but what if the destination isn’t there? (I feel like I need to add, Grasshopper, after a comment like that.)
Lol. All he needs is to get to an airport….although the damage was done in the upload. One terminal connected to the vastness of cyberspace with a sentient virus that will find its way into every online terminal and then send the end users into the world to catch anyone not online. That was the plot line to the end of the second piece. The third one had a silent world and an aweful lot of tumbleweed!
When I think of your vision board. I think about a story board for my writing. I think it would be beneficial for me to use one. I’m going to get one as soon as I get these books in my head written. 🙂
Many people have told me they use a vision board as a story board.
I’ve wanted to start a vision board for a long time. You inspire me!
I’m glad. You will find them useful.
I’ve never had a vision board. But I’m a mostly visual learner, and I could always picture my work and notes in detail to remember things from them, so I expect vision boards would work with me.
I agree that as a visual learner a Vision Board would work for you. Let me know when you do try it.
I loved the quiz. I’m a visual learner 50%, Tactile 35%, and Auditory 15%. That probably explains why I always go to YouTube to learn. I’ve had vision boards in the past but this is inspiring me to make a new one.
Im so glad you took the quiz! I was always trying to do affirmations and couldn’t keep focused on them (Squirrel!) I also get sleepy in lectures and meetings. So glad I now know my learning style so I can cater to it.