Vision boards are awareness, affirmation, and manifestation tools. They encourage inspiration and can take many forms but are most commonly a collage of images and words that are intended to represent an ideal outcome—a future business, a lifestyle refresh, life goals. Dream boards make it easier to visualize, focus on, and communicate a goal.

The easiest way to create a vision board online is by using FigJam’s blank vision board template. Our intuitive design tools take the hassle out of compiling images into a cohesive, visually appealing whole.

The complicated part of creating a vision board is deciding what you’d like to include on it. It’s an introspective, meditative process that will be necessarily unique to every person. Here are a few tips to help get you started:

• Determine a strong central idea or thesis
• Get specific—half-baked ideas are harder to make real
• Surrender to the process (even if that means you feel silly while you do it!)

There’s no single or simple answer to this question. The mental work of discovering what you’d like to include on your vision board is a large part of why vision boards are useful tools. The content of your vision board will be entirely determined by your (or your organization’s) hopes and dreams.

Here are a few general ideas to get those creative juices flowing:

1. Vision boards are primarily for visualization, so start with images. Ask yourself, what does success look like? A happy family, an abundance of money, a cleaner environment?

2. Add words to further contextualize and specify your vision. Consider pulling quotes from aspirational individuals or conventional wisdom and catchy phrases that encapsulate your dreams.

3. Search for content that you connect to visually. You’ll want to reference the vision board regularly moving forward, so make it nice to look at. Choose aesthetic images and cohesive colors.