Moodboard: How Dreams Become Visible
Would you like to create a mood board to keep your dreams always in front of you? We reveal what is behind the popular visualization technique and how you can get started right away.
The most important facts in brief
- A mood board helps you to always keep your goals and dreams in mind
- So you can achieve what you want in life easier and faster
- To create it, you don’t need much
- A lovingly designed board is both eye-catcher and driver
What is a mood board?
Inspiring pictures, motivating quotes and beautifully prepared life goals – you will find all this on a mood board. The collage full of ideas, which is often called a vision board, is thus both decorative and motivating.
The important thing: A mood board is a very personal collection of inspiring photos and impressions. They can be cut out and glued, made, painted, in bright colours or simply designed. The only rule: Your board must fit you.
What can a mood board do?
Always keeping your dreams and goals in mind can help us to achieve them. Behind this lies the law of attraction, which is presented in detail in the bestseller “The Secret”, for example: What we deal with in detail will come to us.
“It is not fate, but we ourselves who determine where our path leads. We just have to be clear about our wishes and then take one step at a time”, writes Marianne Salentin-Träger in her book “Moodboards – Visualizing and Realizing Wishes” (Irisiana, 18 Euro).
Numerous creative and successful people report that they owe their success in life to a mood board or vision board that always reminds them what they want from life.
How can I create a moodboard?
To get started and create your first own moodboard, you don’t need many materials. The most important thing is the base, which can consist of a pinboard, a grid, or simple cardboard. “In principle, any surface that is clearly visible at all times, including a cupboard or room door, can be used,” advises expert Marianne Salentin-Träger.
The next step is to get to the contents of your mood board. There are no limits to creativity here. You can cut out motivating sayings from magazines, print out beautiful pictures from the Internet, paint a dream yourself, or, or, or, or. Important equipment can be different writing and handicraft utensils, for example scissors, nice pens, chalks, glue and drawing pins.
When you fill your mood board, you should always keep in mind It is your own board and what comes on it is up to you alone! No dream and no inspiration is too silly or too stupid. Whatever you like can be on the board. And: Your board is allowed to live – you can always expand it and constantly capture new inspirations.
To give you an impression of how visionboards can look like, we have a few pictures for you in this article. At Pinterest you will also find many examples of personal moodboards.
So now you are ready and can start with your first own moodboard – we wish you a lot of fun!