What if your vision board this year was a diary instead? It’s time to set goals for 2026 and we have some new ideas that you will love
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Now that the bucket lists have been ticked off, it is obviously the time for new ones to be made. More than just bucket lists, it is evident that a lot of people will be downloading aesthetic pictures, putting them on their walls with notes that remind them of the goals that they have to achieve for the year. While vision boards are a pretty good way of goal-setting, they no longer need to be just a bunch of pictures pinned to a wall. What if they could be diaries? Or what about digital notes? Or in formats that you could access any minute without having to run to your bedroom? The possibilities are endless.
Ditch vision boards, becoming boards are in
An idea developed by Instagram creator @karinnordinphd, a becoming board is similar to a vision board, except the latter focuses on who you are going to be after completing your goals. A becoming board, on the other hand, makes you think about how your everyday life will look as you approach these goals.
For example, if your goal for the year is to graduate with the highest score, your vision board will have pictures of people graduating at their graduation ceremony. However, on a becoming board, you will put pictures of studying despite having a low-motivation day, or making sure you’re eating enough to provide yourself energy to study.
So, all those narratives of romanticising the journey or falling in love with the process actually come true on the becoming board. To make a becoming board, you can take pictures that would resemble your daily life and make a collage out of them, just like you do with a vision board. As you begin achieving things, you can take pictures that look similar to the pictures in your board and then replace them with your real-life photographs, using them as progress-trackers.
Make a bingo list
An idea by Instagram creator @ kaylenfaye_, the bingo card makes it easier to look at all the things you want to do in the year, and then work towards it accordingly. You can strike off the things from the card as and when you complete them.
A bingo list can be made by adding a goal in each square. PIC/ISTOCK
To make this, you will need to get a card and make a huge square with several small squares in it, like a checkered pattern. You need to write every goal in a different square, and then either keep the card with you wherever you go or prop it up in your bedroom. You can check things off the bingo list when you do them.
A vision board on the go
Instead of the usual softboard, you can make a vision board in a notebook or a diary, which gives it a living form. For the first few pages of the notebook, you can paste pictures of whatever you want to achieve in the year, with some context written around these pictures.
Having a notebook as a vision board keeps you up to date. PIC/INSTAGRAM@TIEFOSSI
As the year progresses, you can journal in the same notebook. As you go on achieving some of things that may or may not have been a part of your vision board, you can collect mementos or keepsakes from those events and paste them in the notebook. It could be your flight tickets from your trip or just a restaurant bill after you celebrated a big win. At the end of the year, you can look back at your journey and whatever you achieved, and it won’t disappoint you at all.
Trust your luck
This last way of working towards your goals for the year can also be trusting your luck. Even though this way is more on the spiritual side than on the DIY side, it does give you a clear goal to focus on. Shared by creator @elizaveta_ep on Instagram, this practice is linked to the German tradition called Rauhnacht. This tradition is practised during the 12 mystical nights, from December 25 to January 6.
You can decorate your chits and put them in a jar. PIC/INSTAGRAM@FANTASY.A_
All you have to do is write your goals in chits and put them in a jar. As you take out each chit till January 6, you are supposed to burn it, and trust the universe to take care of helping you out with that goal. However, the last chit that remains after you have burnt all your chits is your goal to focus on with all your energy in 2026. This way, you have clarity with what you want to achieve, and can take it easy with your bucket list in the new year.
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