1. Nikil Viswanathan
nikil@cs.stanford.edu
10/30/2012

2. Get college freshmen to
1. Create a vision board with their life goals on
it, post it up in their room
2. Visualize themselves already having
achieved these goals for one minute in the
morning after waking up and one minute at
night immediately before sleeping

4. Very effective in getting
Nikil to Vision Board
Nikil hangs up a
poster board and
prints out and puts up Nikil creates a
images representing page with some
his goals on it written goals and
some pictures on
his computer and
prints them out
and sticks them
on his wall
Nikil prints
out pictures
Nikil makes a and sticks
website which Nikil cuts Nikil creates a
nice, convincin them on his
has a lot of pictures out vision board
images which of magazines g picture set of
depict his and the himself
goals pictures achieving his Nikil buys a
visualize his goals. corkboard
goals. from the
Will be hard to get store Yes! We can get
Nikil to do this Nikil to do this
Nikil starts Nikil Nikil writes
putting teaches a down his
ideas for his friends how goals on a
vision to make a piece of
board on vision paper
Pintrest board
Nikil looks at his Nikil looks at his
Nikil looks at
vision board every vision board for
someone
morning when he 1 minute before
else’s vision
wakes up and going to sleep
board and
imagines for 1 and thinks about
gets in
minute that his achieving all of
inspired
goals are these goals for 1
achieved minute also
Nikil sets his Nikil buys a Nikil sits
Nikil watches
website as corkboard off down and
a video on
his home of imagines his
Nikil talk how to set
Nikil shows page / amazon.com life with hi s
to a friend goals for his
his vision default goals already
about his life
board to screen (or done!
life goals desktop)
his close
Nikil watches
friends
a video on
Not effective in getting how to make
a vision
Nikil to Vision Board board

5.  Creating a vision board and using it is heavily
biased towards a 1-time effort. Once you
harness the energy to do the initial upfront work
of creating the board, you reap the rewards!
 Tip: create a vision board when you are high on
the motivation wave.
 Meta (My) Insight: Planning how to create a
vision board actually gets you pumped to make
one!