Why Every Marriage Needs a Vision Board

If you want to transform your life and transform your relationship, creating a vision board with your spouse is a great start! It’s so easy to get caught up in our everyday lives and sometimes allow our marriages to be an afterthought….especially if you have busy careers and children. However, vision boards can help get you on the same page about how you view your marriage now & how you want it to look moving forward. I’ll share with you why your marriage needs a vision board, but first…

Why is a vision board for your marriage important?

Vision boards are important because they help you clarify and maintain focus on specific goals. It’s an amazing tool to visually see what you want and how you want to get there. Relationships need vision too, right? Right! You can literally manifest any and everything that you want as a couple.

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Write the vision; make it plain.

— Habakkuk 2:2

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Just think of it as a visual affirmation. It’s a way to focus your intentions collectively and ensure a healthy and growing relationship.

Reasons why your marriage needs a vision board

CLARITY

You should seek to align your thoughts not only with your words, but with your actions too. A vision board will give you an opportunity to bring up certain topics that may not be a normal topic of conversation at the dinner table or even at date night. This is intentional time to discuss what’s most important to the two of you together and ensure that you are still in alignment with your marital goals.

CONNECTION

Dare I say this reason is self-explanatory?! Deep conversations create intimacy. Honest conversations create intimacy. Goal-setting conversations create intimacy.

One of my favorite things that my husband and I do is have intentional nights of conversation. We choose nights to lay in bed with no TV on and just ask each other random questions and talk all night…sometimes to the next morning. We’ve been together 8 years now and still find new things to talk about all the time. It reminds me of our long-distance dating days where we would talk on the phone for hours until one of us nearly falls asleep. 🙂

Your marriage needs a vision board because taking time to intimately discuss your goals together forms a deeper connection.

ACCOUNTABILITY

The third reason why your marriage needs a vision board is accountability. What’s a shared goal if you can’t help each other achieve it? As we all know in marriage, sometimes one partner is up and the other is down. And on the days that you need it, it helps to have your spouse keep you motivated and lovingly hold you accountable to the things you both agreed upon.

Speaking of agreeing, let’s move on to the actual steps in creating a vision board for your marriage next.

Steps to creating a vision board

DISCUSS AND AGREE

This is one of the most important steps to creating a vision board for your marriage. You should set a game plan for the vision board. What do you want to accomplish? Are there any boundaries? Any topics off-limits? (I hope not.) Do you want to do a physical vision board or a digital one? How will you split the duties? How will you come to a compromise on varying goals? These are all important topics to bring up in advance. After all, the goal is unity and togetherness. Set yourself up for success by preparing in advance.

SET TIMELINES & EXPECTATIONS

Secondly, set intentional time aside to create a vision board for your marriage. Maybe while he’s watching his favorite football team on TV is not the best time. Lol. Schedule your vision board time as a date and put it on your calendars. Make a charcuterie board, add some wine and voila! It’s a date night.

Be sure to discuss the timeline of your goals. Is this a 1 year vision board? 5? 10? Come to an agreement on when you would like to achieve these shared goals.

Make the visions you discuss S.M.A.R.T. goals. Specific. Measurable. Achievable. Relevant. Time Bound. Here is an example of a S.M.A.R.T goal for your marital vision board.

Example: We will plan a date night once a month on our Fridays off from work.

DECIDE CATEGORIES

Next, when creating a vision board for your marriage, categories are also important to provide your activity with coordinated direction. Having your vision board divided into specific categories can really help you get clear on how you want your life to unfold. Here are a few suggested categories to focus on. Of course you can choose whichever categories you like. I think focusing on 5-6 areas is plenty.

• Spirituality
• Finances
• Intimacy & Date Nights
• Health & Fitness
• Leisure & Hobbies
• Travel & Vacations
• Education
• Family & Home Planning
• Material Possessions

This year, my husband and I chose Spirituality, Finances, Intimacy & Date Nights, Family & Home Planning, Health & Fitness, Travel & Vacations.

START CREATING

Here’s the fun part. Choose whether you’ll make this a physical vision board by cutting out quotes and photos from magazines to glue on a poster board or whether you’ll make it a digital vision board using a design program like Canva.

You can divide your board into sections and title each section with the categories you chose for even more visual clarity. Don’t be afraid to use a marker to write dates next to your visions. Get specific.

MAKE IT VISIBLE

Lastly, after you’ve created the vision board for your marriage, post it somewhere private that you both frequent daily like your bathroom or your closet. When creating a digital vision board, save the image as your desktop background on your computer or perhaps even a smaller version for your cell phone background.

If creating a digital vision board, I would still highly recommend printing it out and posting it somewhere in your home. There’s just something about seeing it in the physical that can really be motivating.

All in all, vision boards can truly help strengthen the intellectual, emotional and spiritual side of your relationship. There’s so much intimacy involved in intentionally collaborating together to create a shared vision for your life as a couple. So go ahead and grab a cup of coffee together and make it a morning date or create your vision board at night after the kids go to bed over a glass of wine.

I hope you found this post about Why Your Marriage Needs a Vision Board inspiring! If you have any questions about how we created our vision board as a couple, feel free to share your questions in the comment section below! Have you ever created a vision board for your marriage before? I’d love to hear from you!