How to Host a Vision Board Party People Will Love

This is the year I’m going hard on my dreams. I guess I’ve always gone pretty hard on them… the problem was, I never clearly defined my long-term goals.

You know the phrase Your future self will thank you? That phrase used to have no bearing on me whatsoever. This elusive future self wasn’t nearly as big of a priority as living-feeling-Melissa right here right now.

The thing is, it’s hard to develop a strong affection for your future self if you have no idea who she (or he) is. So, in order to have a relationship with your future self, and actually want to make decisions in her benefit, you have to clearly define her.

If you are familiar with marketing, this can be like finding your audience persona. A good marketer knows that in order to best connect with your audience, you should have one person in mind. It helps you to anticipate what that person would think or feel. So you clearly define that person… from her likes and dislikes, to her job, hobbies, habits, and even her worries.

That’s where a vision board comes in.

A vision board helps you to clearly define the things you want to manifest into your future. Keep your vision board on display to be reminded of those things, keeping them present in your mind and developing energetic momentum toward those goals.

When I realized I was finally ready to lay sh*t out for future Melissa, I realized it would be much more fun to bring the collective energy of some other driven people ready to lay out their goals with me. Thus, the Vision Board Party of 2017 was born.

I hung my vision board on the ceiling above my bed so it’s the first thing I see when I wake up the morning and last last thing I see when I go to bed. It’s actually glorious.

I put a lot of thought into this event (I’m a bit of a perfectionist), so it feels like the perfect thing to share with the world. I hope you all get as much inspiration from your Vision Board Party as I did with mine.

Don’t let your guests go hungry… or thirsty! Bring coffee and snacks and hey… even mimosas. Sometimes a little buzz can really help get those creative juices flowing.

If you don’t want to have to deal with making all that coffee, find a local coffee shop that offers large to-go containers. I got two Joe-to-Go containers from Groundwork Coffee.

If you’re feeling extra fancy… which I usually am… you can bring a milk frother to have your guests make their own lattes and cappuccinos. I took the opportunity as an excuse to buy this Breville Milk Frother that I’d been eyeing for awhile; however this little handheld milk frother works really well also… it just won’t heat the milk like the Breville.

Snack & Drink Ideas:

Magazines, glue and cardboard are little flatter than I’d like my dreams to be. Bring stuff to make those vision boards pop so they will be hard to ignore when they’re hanging in your guests’ homes.

Vision Board Party Supplies

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Create a simple worksheet that people could print out to give a framework to defining specific areas of their lives. This gives people plenty of time to start envisioning a future they really want and makes them less likely to settle because they’re on a time crunch.

Worksheet Categories:

Create a survey or questionairre (I used Google Forms) to collect responses from the Vision Worksheet so I could make sure I had images of everyone’s visions, rather than making people settle for whatever they could find in outdated magazines.

I spent about an hour searching high quality images on Google, saving them to a folder and then uploading them to the Walgreen’s website to be printed as photos (way cheaper than regular printing companies).

For example, I made sure I had photos of an exotic treehouse for one guest and a Tesla for myself. You can either give the requested images to guests directly by putting them in envelopes or having them at their place settings, or you can just spread them all out on one table and have guests do the work of spotting their dreams in the midst of the noise… which may be good practice as a metaphor for life.

Sample Questions:

List the event where your friends or fans can find it. I used Facebook Events and Meetup. Since a lot of my guests were personal friends, Facebook had the best results. Two people outside of my network found the event through seeing their friends’ RSVPs and searching events nearby.

Choose the platform where your potential guests hang out. If LinkedIn is your thing, post it there!

One great thing about Facebook Events is that it integrates with Eventbrite, which makes collecting payment (if you’re charging for the event) really simple.

Places to List Your Event:

Leading up to the event, get people excited by trickling your resources or photos of supplies.

I sent out the worksheet and a link to the survey a few days before the party, giving me time to see what my guests want in their future and to print out the photos.

Have you ever noticed that even the worst events get stored in your memory of awesome if their are awesome photos to look back on?

The better the photos, the more likely your guests will look back at your event and say “wow, what a great event.” Not to mention you just helped them get one step closer to living the life of their dreams.

Have you held a vision board party or are you planning one? How are planning to make your vision board party different? If you’ve already held a vision board party, how did it go?

Tell me about it in the comments!

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