23 Vision Board Ideas and Themes to Manifest Your Dreams

Achieve your goals and turn your dreams into reality with a vision board.

These vision board ideas will inspire you to manifest your best life by creating your visual guide. 

What is a Vision Board?

A vision board is a physical representation of your goals. When finished, it’s a giant collage that pays homage to the things that are most important to you, serving as a daily reminder to go out there and get what you want.

Crafting your board is an essential part of the process, as each item you affix to your board represents a vital part of your dream.

Vision Board Ideas

A vision board can be as broad or specific as you want. You can laser focus on a specific goal, or have it represent your life in general.

These 15 vision board ideas will get your creative juices flowing and help you create a vision board that fits your needs.

Live Your Best Life

Your daily reminder to live your best life every day lies in your vision board. Create an aesthetic that reminds you to live joyfully and authentically, to enjoy the small things in life, and to cherish the precious moments.

Every time you look at your best life board, you’ll be inspired to live it. 

Your Dreams are Within Reach

Turn your dream life into your real life with a vision board dedicated to your greatest ambitions. Find slogans, images, and phrases that remind you of what you really want in life, and the steps you need to take to achieve them.

Your dream life vision board can showcase what your future holds if you take action today.

Oh, the Places You’ll Go

I love creating travel vision boards. I fill my board with photos of my top bucket list destinations, reminding myself that I’ll get there.

Make a board dedicated to your dream vacation. Fill it with pyramids, camels, and the Nile River if you long to see Egypt, or cherry blossoms, temples, and street food if Japan tops your list. 

If you can’t decide, dedicate your board to your top 3-5 dream destinations. 

Slay Your Career

Visualize yourself moving up the ranks in a prestigious career. The images don’t have to live in your mind – transfer them to your board as your daily reminder that with hard work and perseverance, you can score your dream job.

Your career map can also outline the steps you need to take to get where you want, and offer motivation to keep you on track. 

Productivity Boost

Get more done with a vision board for productivity. Add images of hard workers, motivational slogans, and catchphrases reminding you why you need to focus on work.

Hang your productivity board in your workspace, so you see it every time you try to procrastinate. It will help you put the phone down and focus on the task at hand. 

Thriving Relationships

Humans thrive on relationships, but sometimes we need to remind ourselves how vital they are to a happy life.

Enter the thriving relationships vision board. Fill it with photos of family and friends. Place it wherever you need a reminder of what you’re truly working hard for.

I got the idea for a thriving relationships board from The Simpsons, believe it or not. In an episode where Bart and Lisa ask why there are no pictures of Maggie, it’s revealed that all the pictures of her are plastered around a plaque telling Homer he can never leave his job at the power plant, as a reminder of why he stays. 

Get Inspired

For an inspirational vision board idea, fill your board with inspiring quotes and images. Plaster it with sayings like:

 “Nothing is Impossible – the world itself says ‘I’m Possible!”

Get a boost of inspiration every time you glance at it.

Healthy and Fit

If you’re trying to lose weight or improve your health, a vision board can help. Fill it with images of people working out, add your favorite photo of yourself at your ideal weight, and include photos of healthy yet delicious-looking meals to trick your brain into wanting that for dinner.

Your health and fitness vision board can include any trapping of a healthy life that’s important to you.

Growth Journey

Personal growth is vital to happiness, so why not create a board tracking your journey? Create your vision of growth that includes continued learning, self-improvement, and images of what you’d like to achieve.

Use it as a map of how you can get from where you are to where you want to be. 

Love Yourself

Create a vision board as a constant reminder to show yourself love. Add images of hearts, affirmations of your worth, and self-love goals.

Show yourself you love who you are every day, and make your board a reminder to embrace acts of self-love.

Your Year

Every January, I create a vision board highlighting what I want to achieve for the year. I put savings goals, trip ideas, personal growth targets, and everything else I want to accomplish on my board.

I hang it in my office for inspiration to make this year my year.

Know Thyself

A wonderful yet oft-neglected vision board idea is to make a board dedicated to you. Make a shrine to yourself on your board with images of yourself, words of encouragement, and lists of your top accomplishments.

Find words in magazines that describe your strength, courage, wisdom, or other great qualities. Make it a monument to all the greatness that is you.

Confidence Boost

You can – your vision board proves it!

Create a board that gives the confidence boost you need to slay your day and get things done. Decorate it with motivational phrases, inspiration for self-belief, and anything else that helps you realize your strength.

Spirituality

Create an inspirational vision board dedicated to your faith as a reminder that you aren’t alone on your journey. Your spirituality board can help you seek guidance, pray, and recall the crucial tenets of your religion when you feel despair.

Some religions may forbid idols or visual representations of faith, so only use a spiritual vision board if it’s in line with the teachings of your faith.

Achieve Any Goal

What is your top life goal?

Make a vision board that helps you achieve it.

One of my favorite aspects of the vision board process is it’s versatility – you can use it to achieve any goal, whether you’re saving for a house, building a career, looking to marry, wish to travel, want to write a book – anything you wish to achieve can come to life with a vision board.

Vision Board Themes

Our vision board ideas showcase an abundance of topics for your board, but there’s another aspect to crafting a perfect collage: the theme.

The vision board theme holds it together, creating a cohesive image that makes you want to keep looking at it over and over again. It helps transform your vision into a work of art you’ll proudly display. 

Here are our favorite vision board theme ideas. Although you can use any theme on any vision board, some lend themselves better to certain topics than others. You get to decide!

Chronological

A chronological vision board showcases your goals in the order you need to accomplish them.

For example, perhaps you’re fresh out of college and dream of being a director in an agency. Your board might showcase the different positions you need to take along the way or the skills you need to learn.

I’ve created a five-year plan on a vision board by dividing the board into five equal parts. I then decide which goals to tackle each year, and dedicate a portion of the board to each. 

Whimsical

A whimsical board theme allows you to decorate your vision with interesting or abstract images and phrases.

Let your personal whimsy guide you – perhaps you love the absurdity of Alice in Wonderland, or the silliness of Willie Wonka. It’s your board, so let yourself get creative.

Seasonal

Theme your board for the seasons! Some people enjoy making a new vision board each season, showcasing what they will accomplish in spring, summer, fall, and winter. Use flowers and baby animals for spring, beaches and barbeques for summer, foliage and pumpkins for fall, and snow for winter.

If you only want one board for the year, separate it into four parts and decorate them according to your seasonal favorites.

Ethereal

Give your board a mystical feel with an ethereal theme. Use dark, smoky colors, triangles, and felines to suggest spiritual or divine power.

An ethereal theme works best for spiritual vision boards, but there’s nothing wrong with using it for any life goal if you enjoy the aesthetic.

Aesthetic

Speaking of aesthetics, most people use simple color patterns they enjoy for their theme. Pick a palette that makes you want to gaze at your board.

Some people prefer bold colors and striking patterns, while others want a subdued board with light tans and off-whites to make everything easy on the eye. 

There’s no right or wrong aesthetic for your board – pick what you love.

Fantasy

Who doesn’t love a good fantasy tale? Use imagery from your favorite fictional work as a theme for your board.

Use castles, dragons, and princesses or elves and dwarves to help your vision come to life.

Futuristic

If your vision board relates to long-term goals, why not go all out with a futuristic theme? Go all out with robots and spaceships, or search for your favorite futuristic motif online and implement the ideas in your board.

Favorite Things

The best vision board theme is the one you love. Think about all your favorite things, and decide which ones would work for a vision board.

It could be anything, from cats to mechanics, space exploration to books, or food to the great outdoors. The only limit is your imagination.

Craft Your Vision Board

Hopefully, these vision board ideas inspired you to start your own. I’d love to see your finished products! Post them on Instagram and tag @partnersinfire!