How long is your New Year’s resolutions list? Long? That’s not going to work for your 2024 vision board. A New Year vision board to be strategic to get the impact you want.

With a more holistic and focused board design and regular engagement with it from you, you’ll up your chances of succeeding this coming year.

Follow these seven key attributes of a vision board and supercharge your resolutions.

7 Key Vision Board Attributes To Supercharge Your Resolutions

First, don’t try to change everything you don’t like about yourself or your life within just one year.

Ask yourself:

• Does the list include more than half a dozen items?
• Do any of these resolutions seem super-optimistic or make you feel queasy just thinking about what it’ll take to achieve them?
• Do some of the items on the list appear over and over again?

If you answered yes to one or more of these three questions, it’s time to do something different. So, let’s look at a better way to construct and engage with your resolutions and 2024 vision board.

1. Focus and Integrate Your Intentions

More realistically, you’d need a singularly dedicated vision board for just one of those big challenges.

So, instead of including everything, make a focused board. Gather your likes and dislikes, prioritize your objectives, and craft one 2024 resolution and board. The accompanying photo illustrates a board singularly focused on increasing self-confidence.

If the one resolution seems too limited, pick one or two more. But, make sure they’re related, complementary, or supportive to the original resolution because you don’t want to complicate the overall message of your board.

You can see in the photo the words self-assured and authentic. These words are inextricably related to self-confidence.

The same rule can be applied to a resolution regarding a difficult change. In this case, break that challenging goal into at most three interrelated and manageable constituents.

For example, if your resolution is to get better sleep, you might commit to experimenting and ultimately adopting one or two changes in your bedtime routine. Your board would then reflect these changes along with better sleep. You can always modify and add to the board as you successfully and sustainably adopt good pre-bed practices.

The goal doesn’t need to be fully met within one year. Define resolutions according to what is doable in the coming year.

One final note on intentions. They don’t need to be action-orientated. They could be about perspective-taking or gaining clarity on something.

2. Use Images that Represent Your Version of Success

Once you’ve narrowed down your intentions, look for images and phrases that remind you of and focus your attention on what will contribute to fulfilling these intentions. Include them on your 2024 vision board.

Exclude photos and phrases that don’t quite represent what you want. That will only dampen the power of the board. This will keep you focused and build energy around those key themes for this coming year.

Use photos, illustrations, and other types of images or objects. Images stimulate brain attention and entrainment. In fact, images are more effective than words or affirmations because, according to Dr. Tara Swart, “the brain assigns a higher ‘value’ to images than written words on a “to-do’ list” and it imprints images onto your subconscious (your body-mind), filtering out any unnecessary information.

Add to this, the brain treats images as direct experiences, which capture the full sense or mind-body experience of the thing or concept portrayed on the board, and the brain doesn’t register the difference between actually seeing something and the image.

3.  Use Words and Phrases That Orient, Reinforce, and Remind

Words and phrases engage your thinking brain or head-brain. They serve as reminders of your intentions and cues to form thoughts, ruminations, and beliefs associated with your desired outcomes.

Single words and oddly constructed phrases cause your mind to open up and wonder. This is because its natural tendency is to want to make sense of incomplete or strange thoughts. This curious frame of mind helps you push away rigid limiting beliefs and draw in fresh ideas and beliefs about yourself and your situation. This is what you want from your vision board.

One final note on words and phrases. Always make them positive and representative of what you want your outcome to look like. Don’t use negations like “don’t lie to my partner” or “eat less sugar.” See my blog post Setting Intentions That Work for more on crafting your intentions.

4.  Integrate the Board to Engage the Whole of You and Your Imagined Experience of Success

Because images and words interact with and stimulate the head-brain and body-brain differently, construct a board with a bit of both.

Create overlap among the images and words to engage both for a single theme. The attached photo provides an example. See the picture of a young girl superhero next to the word self-confidence.

5. Keep It Where You’ll See It EVERY Day

Of course, the effectiveness of your 24 vision board depends on the attention you give to it. It can only remind you of your intentions and the sense of your desired outcome IF you keep it where you’ll regularly see it, preferably daily.

Furthermore, it’s critical that you also work with your board regularly. Make a habit of looking at it, imagining how you can bring your resolution(s) to fruition. This might be through meditation, crystal grids, or energy healing.

You can even create personalized rituals or ceremonies, which can enhance the significance of your board’s contents and more profoundly imprint your intentions.

Don’t forget to take action steps regularly – even small steps – to help you achieve your intentions.

6. Practice Being Your 2024 Vision Board

Visualize and embody the results you want to see in the coming year. This means practice “being” the final result you want.

To do this, take on the posture, mindset, and the whole shape of who you’ll be inside and outside. This behavior creates the emotional, biophysical, and biochemical states and the neurological networks corresponding to the new desired way of being. (See my blog for more on the importance of embodiment and embodied awareness.)

7. Change What Isn’t Working

Feel free to edit or change your 2024 vision board as you move through the year. Typically, you learn and evolve along through your life as a journey. You want to make sure to incorporate this wisdom. You can change your board to incorporate what you learn, how you feel about the process, or new notions about the desired outcome.

For More On Vision Boards, Setting Intentions, and Manifesting Results, See:

My related Mind Body Spirit Blog Posts:

• Make Sure Your New Year’s Resolutions Vision Board Transforms Your Coming Year
• Commemoration Board – Going Beyond The Vision

Updated November 23, 2024