Can vision boards help impact your quest to achieve your dreams and goals?
You might think of them as just an assortment of affirmations and images, but vision boards are an excellent tool for manifesting what you want in life.
A vision board can be displayed prominently in a designated sacred space, or a mini version can be carried in your journal. And every time you see your vision board, you’re doing short visualizations about your goals, helping attract the things you want. (Learn more about the law of attraction with these books.)
In this post, we will learn more about vision boards and cover 26 great vision board templates you and your friends can use to create your vision board.
The Three Categories of Vision Boards
Vision boards fall into three common categories:
Most people invest several hours (or days) to create physical vision boards. After they’ve mapped out their goals, they use magazine cutouts, printables, and stickers to create a collage representing their hopes, dreams, and goals.
Often, vision boards are based on corkboards or thick cardstock. These boards are highly personal and meaningful for their creators. (Want to get started on one? Use this checklist to ensure you have all the vision board supplies you'll need.)
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The Advantage of Templates
However, not everyone has the time to create a vision board from scratch. And others may be hesitant to make a “freeform” type of vision board.
If this is the situation you find yourself in, a template is an alternative yet effective way to create your goal board. All you need to do is fill out a template with appropriate picture cutouts and affirmations that represent your vision and still reap the benefits of creating a vision board.
Today, we’re featuring 26 vision board template ideas you can use to inspire your next dream board. Unless otherwise stated, these templates are downloadable and free from their creators’ websites. They can also serve as examples to spark your own creativity.
Let’s check them out.
26 Vision Board Templates
1. My Vision Board
Our template helps you manifest the perfect life you’ve always dreamed of. This template has boxes and icons that represent different life goals, including:
You can place cutouts and other design elements in the boxes to create an image-rich vision board or write down your goals for each category. Space is provided at the bottom of the page for writing down notes and other relevant information.
2. Vision Board Life Goals
We designed this vision board to be a constant reminder and source of inspiration as you work toward fulfilling your life goals. This predominantly green-themed template has a prominent spot reserved for listing five of your major life goals. Surrounding it are boxes that represent your family, travel, career, and financial goals.
3. Vision Board Kit
This kit has everything you need to create a vision board. You need to fill six categories in this template: self-care, talents, relationships, just-for-fun, education, and health.
You can easily modify this planner to suit your preferences. Supplies that you can use include colored pens, magazine cutouts, and printables. Planner stickers also work well (check out this post on the best planner stickers).
4. My Vision Board
via Lady And A Blog
This template provides spaces for different categories of personal goals. You can choose to fill out just the boxes that you want and then watch your goals manifest.
The categories include financial, physical, things to try, dreams, spiritual, and family life. This template is downloadable as a .pdf file.
5. What Is and What Could Be
via Christie Zimmer
This journal page features a charming color scheme and fun fonts and layout. It helps determine what things you can improve to raise your life's quality and achieve what you've always dreamed of. After brainstorming your answers, you can transform this page into your actual vision board.
6. Kids Vision Board Template
This template is ideal for classroom use as you teach kids the value of goal-setting. This vision board is available for a minimal fee.
7. Canva Free Template – Turquoise
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This is a free digital template available on Canva. It has a turquoise theme that is soothing to the eyes.
The main advantage of using online graphic design platforms such as Canva is the large volume of stock images you can choose from to make your vision boards stand out. You can use some images for free, but to have full access to the image database, you need to subscribe to the premium service for a fee.
8. Canva Free Template – White Gold Foil New Year Vision Mood Board
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Here is another digital template from Canva that features an eye-catching white and gold foil theme.
Do you know why vision boards work? They function as a visualization tool. You may have heard athletes use visualization (imagery) to boost their performance. You can do the same, but your board should contain inspiring quotes and pretty images.
Vision boards' value lies in how they make you feel when you’re looking at the images. Your board should evoke positive emotions within you that are related to the goals you’re trying to achieve.
That’s why you should be the one to create your vision board. Delegating the task to someone else causes the board to lose its efficacy because feelings are personal and not something you can delegate or outsource.
For a more in-depth guide, here's our post on how to use Canva to create your vision board.
9. Three-Pillar Vision Board Layout
Splitting your vision board into categories helps keep goals manageable. Popular goal categories include:
This template has columns for the three most common categories of personal visions: self, social, and security.
10. Printable Vision Board
If you need a vision board that can easily be slipped into a planner to take anywhere, this printable template is right for the job. Anytime you need to review your goals, it’s as easy as taking out your planner and going to the page where you’ve placed your vision board.
A vision board is like your “whole-year resolution.” Compared with New Year’s resolutions, which you are likely to forget once February comes along, a vision board’s physical presence provides a daily visual and tactile reminder of all that you want to manifest in your life.
11. Adventure Awaits Template
This template was created in Canva. For those unfamiliar with Canva, it is a drag-and-drop graphic design tool with a massive database of images and fonts. It has helped non-graphic designers and experienced designers create graphics for websites and printed media.
Here are some guide questions to help flesh out your dream board:
- What do you see yourself doing in the next three years or so?
- What do you hope to achieve?
- What places do you hope to see?
- What things do you want to do?
12. The Best Year
You can use this template to think about the things you’ve learned from the previous year, what you’re grateful for, and what you’ve achieved that made you proud.
It also features spaces for the things you want to improve on, the things you want to try, and places you want to go in the coming year.
Make brainstorming and creating a vision board fun, and let your kids participate! Include their ideas on the board. You can also let older kids create their own vision boards.
Looking for more ideas? Here are more vision board ideas for kids.
13. Goal Setting Printable
This template provides various spaces for personal goals, inspiring/motivational quotes, social goals, and career goals. It is colorful and unconventionally designed.
14. This Year I Will
You can use this worksheet to brainstorm all the things you would like to attract into your life, as well as the stuff you want to eliminate (e.g., habits, relationships) that no longer works.
Alternatively, you can cut out appropriate images and quotes and paste them directly onto this worksheet. You'll have an instant vision board!
15. Mood Boards
Sometimes, when you come across an eye-catching vision board, your first reaction may be a sigh and a wistful remark like, “I wish I could make something like that.”
The creator of these four templates allows you to own a beautiful dream or mood board minus the stress of creating the perfect layout. These templates are editable and customizable to your preferences. All you need to do is follow the instructions on her post (link above), and you’ll be the proud owner of an aesthetically pleasing vision board.
Then, all you need to do is display the board somewhere prominent and watch your dreams come true.
16. Goal Digger
This template will help you organize and keep track of all your goals. Categories include physical, professional, spiritual, and relational. Be ready for positive change this year!
17. Travel Writing Vision Board
Perhaps one common goal many people place on their vision boards is the opportunity to travel far-off places, whether for a little R&R or a good cause. This is an excellent example of a travel vision board.
18. Your Best Self
This fee-based template helps improve the quality of your life. It serves as a guide to attracting more positive things into your life and transforming habits into ones that promote self-improvement.
19. Green Vision Board
The color green is often used as a symbol of growth. This template features a green theme that is refreshing and exciting, heralding wonderful things to come. The template can also demonstrate that you are adopting a growth mindset and are open to what life offers.
20. Intentions and Desires
This template’s design provides a sleek and uncluttered view of your goals. Remember to keep your intentions as specific as possible.
Another tip for realizing the goals you’ve set for yourself is to be mindful of what is around you. That way, you are more attuned to opportunities when they are within reach.
21. Financial Vision Board
We all aspire for security and stability, and when it comes to financial success, the best way to achieve it is by planning accordingly. This template helps you clarify and meet your financial goals, so set your intentions and get ready to become wealthier this year.
22. Your Best Year Yet
This teal-themed template is your companion as you work on creating the life you’ve always wanted. It features six boxes for your goals in different areas of life.
You can write down your goals for each area, such as daily non-negotiables, health and wellness goals, and financial goals. You can also add cutouts, stickers, and other printables to add some fun and color to your template.
23. Dreams & Goals
This set of vision boards offers you a wide selection of designs to choose from. You’ll find a vision board with a minimalist design, if that’s what you’d prefer, or a rainbow-colored template if you resonate more with colorful designs.
Some of the templates in this set are pre-filled, so you simply have to write down your dreams and vision for each category. There are also blank ones if you prefer a more customized template that you can fill up any way you like.
Finally, some of the templates have inspiring quotes from influential people such as C. S. Lewis and Pablo Picasso.
24. Create Your Dreams
This free template is designed to look like different types of notes pinned to a board. There are spaces to write down your dreams for every category found in this template. An encouraging quote from Louis Pasteur reminds users that “Chance favors only the prepared mind.”
25. Visualize Bliss
A simple vision board is just as effective as an intricate one. Here’s a straightforward template in a pink-and-black theme. It allows you to create a vision board for four areas of your life, namely:
26. Let Kids Explore Their Dreams
Kids benefit from learning about goal-setting and visualization early on, and this template helps introduce vision boarding to young people.
It features a colorful interface with places to write down or draw images representing your goals/dreams. Boxes with writing prompts give structure to the vision-boarding process.
Some of the writing prompts you’ll find in this template include:
Final Thoughts on Vision Board Templates
Vision boards are powerful tools for manifesting your heart’s desires. Other great ways to accomplish your goals are to:
Keep your intentions clear.
Believe that what you want is already within reach.
Celebrate the victories that arrive.
Strive to be a better version of who you are all the time.
We hope that the vision board template ideas presented in this post inspire you and give you the courage to achieve what you’ve always wanted.
If you need further ideas on creating a vision board from scratch, this post can help you. Check out these vision board printables to make your vision boards more interesting.
For more vision board ideas, check out these roundups:
- vision board ideas for men
- vision board ideas for students
- vision board ideas for kids
- vision board ideas for weight loss goals
- vision board ideas for musicians
Further, if you prefer a digitized version of the goal board, you might want to check out this post on the best vision board apps and websites.
Finally, if you don’t know how to get started with this strategy, then check out this FREE printable worksheet and a six-step process that will help you create the PERFECT vision board.
