Vision Board Deadline?
Who’s setting the timelines?
Last year, I couldn’t make a vision board before the new year, so I gave up because I felt I’d “missed the deadline.”
But my year wasn’t bad.
I got sworn in to handle a public office in a national student body.
Handled publicity, branding, and communication roles.
Went out a lot with friends.
Built new relationships.
Refused to accept complete failure regarding my business.
Earned more than I ever had with my hustles.
All this, and maybe more, came, but I struggled so much because most of it started as an afterthought, without direction or clarity.
I’m sharing this in case you don’t believe in all the hype around goal-setting and vision boards. I get it, I’ve been there.
Not having a vision board doesn’t mean your year can’t be good, or even great. Looking at my own year, I did well. But there were blind spots, and I often moved without enough information.
Alignment and clarity were hard to achieve, especially when you have multiple interests like me.
I ended up making decisions from a place of vibes, not data.
And now I find it hard to document what I actually achieved this year because there’s no benchmark for what I wanted to achieve in the first place.
I hope I’ve convinced you, at least a little, of the importance of having a vision board.
And by vision board, I don’t mean just cutting pictures off Pinterest (I thought that was so last month).
It’s actually a lot of work.
I’m already on the first step: auditing my habits and checking in with the identity I currently hold. I’m figuring out which beliefs and habits need to go for me to become the person I want to be and what must remain.
I might not be done by January first, but that’s okay.
There’s no real deadline that says I have to figure it all out by that day. (Writing this out in public is such a big relief🥹, I didn’t realize how much pressure the belief of meeting up with the January 1st deadline had on me)
That “new year” pressure?
Just an abstract weight.
Each day still has 24 hours and that’s enough.