Supplies You’ll Need for Your Vision Board
Welcome back to my series on working with the Law of Attraction (LoA) through the process of creating a vision board.
In the first part, we explored just what a vision board is; in the second part, we looked at the types of vision boards people typically make. Now, we’re moving on to the supplies you’ll need for creating your vision board.
The first item that you’ll have to get in order to create the vision board is poster board. You can find this at stores such as Target or Walmart usually in the stationery or the school aisle.
Some people use the tri-fold presentation type boards. Whatever you get, just make sure that the board is durable. After you get the board, you need a list of what you want to attract in life.
These wants should be a list of everything that you imagine for yourself in the areas that affect you. For example, you could have a list dealing with your job or career, your education, your finances and your health.
Depending on how many areas you want to include on your board, you may need to use an extra large one – or some people use more than one board and each board is divided by category.
What some people do is take a large square board and they cut it into a big circle. Then they divide that circle like you would the slices of a pizza. Each slice represents an area of life.
In the center of the board is a circle that holds either a photo of the person creating the board or an image or phrase that’s particularly meaningful. Once you have the board, you’ll need to start gathering your images and any quotes or words relating to your goals that you want for the board.
One good way to find images is through the use of magazines. If you don’t have a wide variety of magazines at home already, you don’t want to make the mistake of rushing out to buy a big selection of them because it can be too expensive to buy them individually.
Some magazines now cost almost five dollars per monthly edition. So you’re doing to want to find some free or cheap ones to use for the board. Many libraries offer free magazines because patrons donate magazines. The library usually gives these away.
The ones that don’t give them away will often offer them at very little cost from five to ten cents per copy. You can also get slightly out of date magazines from doctor’s offices or other places just by asking.
Some schools and colleges pitch magazines that were unused at the end of every school year so you might want to ask about getting those. Also, you can contact magazine publishers and ask for a free sample.
Many of them still do that. Brochures with images on them that you might like are also available from hair salons, car dealerships, real estate offices and more. In today’s world of technology though, you can also print out any image that you find that you feel suits your LoA desires.
Some of the stock photo sites have great images on a variety of topics that you can buy fairly cheaply to use for your board. Or, you can just print out images you find on the Internet.
While it can be tempting to start putting the board together as you gather the images, you don’t want to do that. You want to completely finish gathering all of the images you need first before you start to work on the layout.
You’ll need scissors to use for cutting out images of magazines and other print media. You’ll also need an adhesive to make the images stick to the poster board.
You don’t want to use regular kid’s school glue because this type of glue has a tendency to over-saturate the images. Even if you’re careful to use only a little bit, the glue can still make the images take on a wrinkled appearance.
Instead of school glue, you can use either photo adhesive, dots or squares carried in the craft or photography section of many retail stores. Some people use glue sticks or rubber cement and those will work just as well.
And that wraps up this portion of the series. In the next article, we’ll start putting all of this together.
Until then…
