(This article was first published in Toto Magazine on September 7, 2022)
By Ritah Mukasa
It is important to know what you want to be in life and set your goals early enough. Identify what you want to be and work hard to achieve it. A vision board is one of the tools you can use as a guide to setting and following up your goals.
How To Create A Vision Board
Get white paper or manila paper, write your goals and draw pictures of how you want them to look like. That is a vision board. This chart supports young people to focus on their dreams. For example, Aber Jonelle Abigaba, 14, wants to be many things. She wants to be a paediatrician, an accountant, an interior designer, flight attendant and a professional model.
However, when she designed a vision board, it became easy for her to zero down on a career and business and she is working hard to achieve that.
What To Put On Your Vision Board
Include your personal goals or the career you want to pursue such as doctor, lawyer, teacher, innovator and engineer.
Your vision board should also have your social life and spiritual goals. The social life includes your hobbies such as travelling and adventure. It can also include making friends and spending time with your family.
The spiritual goals include praying regularly, reading the Bible or Qu’ran and serving in church or mosque.
Write down those goals creatively to make your board attractive. You can also add your pictures or drawings in different colours.
Thereafter, hang it in your bedroom and always look at it to remember your goals. Feel free to keep ticking those you achieve, change some or add more. However, if you turn 15 years of age, stop altering what you wrote on the vision board and focus on those dreams.
