The third advantage of creating a dream board is the creative act itself. The creation process gets you in touch with your inner muse, connecting you to your inspiration and opening you up to a bigger vision for yourself and your life. Even if you don’t consider yourself artistic, maybe even especially if you don’t, the process is fun, insightful and can be healing for the soul.

There’s two ways you can make a dream board: on paper or digitally. I love the old fashion way of creating a paper collage, with images from magazines or beautiful art cards and filling in with pieces that I write on with colored markers. I created my first dream board seven years ago, and it’s amazing to see things come true that you can then take down and replace with new dreams. Kristy and I take ours down a couple times of year to work on it and keep things current and aligned. We have it on a big corkboard in our bedroom so we see it every day.

You can also make a dream board on your computer. Programs such as Pinterest, Smilebox, Canva and Illustrator can be used to create a digital collage – it depends on your skills and preference. My one word of caution here would be to find a way to make your digital collage regularly visible to you by setting it as your wallpaper on your computer, or saving an image on your lock screen for your phone. That way you get the daily reminder to visualize your dreams as reality!