The New Vision Board: How Technology is Changing the Art of Manifestation
Vision boards have been a manifestation tradition for over a decade. Each New Year, people around the world gather art supplies to create unique posters that represent their goals. These collages of old magazine clippings and significant images are carefully crafted to visually showcase our dreams. Images of island vacations, dream homes, and six-figure salaries are meant to consistently fuel our ambition for the next 365 days.
This year, we’re facing the fact that it’s 2024, and technology has been making huge leaps in the last decade. Quite literally, this ain’t your mama’s internet. As we track manifestation trends, we have to admit that it’s time for the vision board to get a digital facelift. Smartphones, apps, and immersive technologies are encouraging dreamers everywhere to explore new ways to visualize their goals. Enter the era of the "New Vision Board."
Lay out your dreams with a digital template
Personally, we’ve found that getting started can be one of the hardest parts of a vision board. It’s easy to find yourself half past a bottle of chardonnay, waist-deep in a pile of old Vogue magazines and glue sticks, without any real sense of direction or organization.
This year, if you find yourself lost with no sense of how or where to start, put away the Elmers and pull out the App Store. Common apps like Pinterest and Canva can help demystify the design process. They offer beautiful pre-made vision board templates fit for any aesthetic. Available in different sizes and with varying layouts, this option can make the process of creating a truly personal vision board simple and stress-free.
For the green goddess in all of us, you can take your template a step further and skip the poster board altogether. Creating a digital vision board can save you time, energy, and quite a few trips to the Barnes and Noble magazine rack. Digital canvases have the benefit of being essentially limitless; you can curate as many images and affirmations as you want. You can keep your vision board on your phone for daily inspiration and as your goals shift or change, you can edit your digital template to better suit your evolving lifestyle. By digitizing your vision of your future, you give yourself the flexibility to keep your goals relevant as you grow.
Need help with your health? There’s an app for that
Improving one’s health is one of the most common resolutions when envisioning your dream life. We have to admit that getting in shape no longer looks like signing up for a gym membership that you won't use after February. Most people are taking a more holistic approach and are looking for ways to improve the mind and body simultaneously.
Today, there are hundreds of affirmation and manifestation apps on the market. It’s easy to set up a daily dose of motivation. Meditation apps like Insight Timer and Waking Up can help you get consistent about daily wellness. Fitness apps are a dime a dozen, no matter what kind of exercise you’re into. Nike’s Run Club is free and effective if your vision board has a cross-country clipping. More of a sun salutations type of girl? Popular yoga apps like Down Dog are highly customizable and can help you set realistic goals to get you and your chakras on the right track.
With technology, you can even automate your affirmations. Dreamers in this day and age can get daily inspiration at a specific time of day, in their preferred font style, and even have it read to them in a celebrity voice, all with the touch of a button.
Be your own (virtual) accountability partner
With customizable templates and a wide selection of apps helping set the stage, we’ve reached the final phase of the vision board: accountability and consistency. Too often, vision boards are made in January and then forgotten, fated to be shuffled away behind the unused shoes in your closet before March.
Tech can simplify personal accountability in a way that can ground the images on your vision board in reality. When you digitize your dreams, try to find quick easy ways to track your progress. Group your apps and your systems of accountability together. This can make your goals all the more attainable because you can track your goals in a way that has been made for you, by you.
As our culture figures out how better ways to incorporate evolving technologies, we have a personal responsibility to evolve ourselves and our habits to match the pace of our digital landscape. If you look at things from this perspective, the future of manifestation looks promising.
The new vision board is a testament to our ability to adapt, marrying age-old practices to new experimental mediums. Creativity is getting a makeover by way of Instagram and AI and we love to see it. The art of goal setting has always been about courageously embracing innovation and now we have the power to maintain pursuit of our dreams from the palm of our hand.
As we adapt to this digital era, the power to manifest is literally at our fingertips, reminding us that the future is not just something to anticipate; it's something we actively create. And you can get pretty good at it if you set the right notification.
Always in your corner,
The Content Queens
