Our Team Visualizes Their Goals

What’s a vision board? It’s a collage of images that represent your goals and dreams. Creating a board and keeping it near your writing desk can help you imagine what a positive future could look like. Want to see examples? Check our team members’ vision boards below. Did any of their dreams come true?

Are you ready to see your vision come to life? Join entrepreneur and author Pamela A. Major as she uses her popular Viral Vision Adventure program to guide you to create a personal vision board in our Vision Board Workshop on Zoom from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET, select Saturdays. Then, learn the steps it takes to help your vision come off the board and into your everyday life.

co-founder, executive director, and writing instructor Jennifer Chauhan:

Sometimes what you’ve visualized comes true in a different way than you first imagined and that is pretty cool!

Vision Board Highlights:

– Inspirational quotes
– Titles of the two big writing projects I’ve been working on: “Jennie,” my first-ever screenplay, and “Indie & Jeesh,” a YA novel
– Photos/artwork/symbols that bring me joy and remind me of what’s important
– The last birthday card my mom gave me before she passed, a reminder of how she believed in me
– A photo of the Taj Mahal, a place I plan to visit

What Goals Have Been Realized:

– I completed a second full draft of my screenplay and a solid first draft of my young adult novel, which I have been working on for three years.
– Even though I have not physically traveled to India, Project Write Now launched a PWN India Writing Club for 10 to 12 years old in India!

PWN Teen writing instructor Vivian DeRosa:

Being able to actually look at my dreams made them feel more tangible—within reach. Plus, I hate to let myself down. Once I put something on my vision board, I felt more driven to achieve it.

Vision Board Highlights:

– The word “Paris”—representing my hope that I’d get to travel there over the summer
– A book cover with my name written in as the author, plus two books under it—my goal to write more and read more, so that one day, I’ll be a published author
– A photo of Taylor Swift, which has a double “vision”—first, I was looking forward to listening to Swift’s re-recorded albums Fearless and Red, which were scheduled to drop in 2021, and second, she’s my favorite musician to listen to while taking walks—and I was hoping to walk more this year (Walking is when I feel happiest and healthiest!)
– There are a couple photos of a house and a map of New England—a long-term goal to buy a home in Maine

What Goals Have Been Realized:

– I applied for admission and a scholarship from the American University of Paris—and I received both! I spent three weeks taking a creative writing class in Paris. From picnics at the Eiffel Tower to adventures in the Pompidou to visiting an underground “magique” museum, I had a truly wonderful time. The almond croissants every morning certainly didn’t hurt.
– For the first time since I was a kid, I read 100 books during the year! I also made progress with my current writing project.
– I met my yearly walking goal—an average of 9,000 steps a day—and I listened to Swift’s (excellent) albums as I did so.
– Admittedly I did not buy a house. Probably because I am still in college. But I did spend a lot of time on Zillow. Does that count?

education director and writing instructor Colleen Doogan:

I keep my vision board in my office and it’s truly a collage on how I want to live my life. It is a constant reminder to enjoy life and not get bogged down with the things that are out of my control.

Vision Board Highlights:

– Travel: I have a lot on my board having to do with travel. I have a lot of anxiety about traveling so I think putting places I’d like to see in the world on my board helps me to stay focused on trying to overcome that anxiety.
– Living the good life: I was also turning 50 the year I made my vision board so there’s a lot about living a good life, laughing more, living every day to its fullest, and focusing on the little things in life.

What Goals Have Been Realized:

– I look at my vision board and realize how much the pandemic has impacted me. Friendships, family, socially, mentally, emotionally … it’s going to be a long road to recover but I’m trying.

PWN Screen Academy director and writing instructor Lizzie Finn:

Instead of setting goals or resolutions, I prefer to set my vision and intentions for the new year. It’s not about what I can accomplish or achieve, it’s about how I intend to live my life on a daily basis. I made this vision board in January 2020 at a time when I was rebooting my entire life and starting over. This vision board absolutely set the tone for that year and kept me focused on my passions and purpose even while the world was shutting down during a global pandemic.

program coordinator and writing instructor Lisa Hartsgrove:

When you make yourself face your goals every day, they get into your subconscious. You might be surprised by how much you accomplish just by writing down what you want to do!

Vision Board Highlights:

– Inspirational quotes to keep me motivated to finish my book
– Goals and motivation about being authentically me
– Travel and relationship goals
– A goal to get my cat, Dunkin, to win the Cutest Cat contest

What Goals Have Been Realized:

– I finished a full draft of my novel in 2021! By the end of 2022, I plan to have all revisions complete.
– I’m constantly working on my authenticity and self-love. I’m proud to say I’m doing a much better job at self-care than ever before.
– I’m in a very healthy loving relationship that I couldn’t be more grateful for.
– And though Dunkin has not yet (emphasis on “yet”) won Cutest Cat, he has been a top 10 runner-up TWICE and he is growing a pretty big social media presence.

author, playwright, and PWN’s Vision Board Workshop instructor Pamela Major:

My vision board has so many domains of my life. It reminds me of what I not only want but what I am called to do. Putting this board in place is part of what keeps me focused and driven.

Vision Board Highlights and Goals Realized:

– Learning to say no: I’ve been living by a “be committed to a strong ‘no’ and a focused ‘yes’” mantra. It has helped me complete a master’s program in one year, put out a book, establish seasoning blends and get clarity on relationships.
– SKY: I am running a pilot program now and have been hired to utilize it for a women’s program for a nonprofit. I have used aspects of it for PWN at Asbury Park High School.
– Pam’s Cottage: We committed to doing a community meal that we will now work with this nonprofit to do three or four more (as COVID permits) this year.

Ready to visualize your dreams and turn them into your reality?

Join Our Vision Board Workshop

Virtual: Zoom
Select Saturdays
10 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET
with Pamela A. Major

Are you ready to see your vision come to life? Join entrepreneur and author Pamela A. Major as she uses her popular Viral Vision Adventure program to guide you to create a personal vision board. Then, learn the steps it takes to help your vision come off the board and into your everyday life.