subject: Staying Motivated By Using Mood Boards [print this page] If you come from a graphic design or artistic background then you may be familiar with using mood boards as part of the creative process - these are often a collection of imagery that come together to form an overall theme, and provide inspiration to turn ideas into a finished product. Mood boards can be used in a different manner, however, and several people I know find them to be quite helpful for gaining inspiration in their day-to-day life.
Using Mood Boards
If you seek wealth or have any other overriding goal in your everyday life, you're going to need a fairly regular dose of inspiration to help keep you motivated. A mood board can be just one source of that, and in particular it provides that visual source of inspiration to help remind you every now and then about what the hard work now will eventually allow you to achieve. This can be fairly powerful, as it allows you to see your future come to life in a way that very few other forms of inspiration allow you to do.
Why Use One?
As you know, inspiration in any goal you have in life can be quite difficult to maintain. It is quite okay to tell yourself that by doing the things you are in your day-to-day life now will get you where you want to go, but unless you actually see that in front of you then often your mind will have a hard time believing it and cause you to question yourself more than you need to. It gives you a steady source of visual motivation that you can hang on your wall or put on your computer's desktop so that you can refer to it whenever you're feeling a little down on motivation.
How To Create A Mood Board
There are several tools you can use to create your own mood board - online ones like Image Spark, design applications like Photoshop or just a few magazines, scissors and some cardboard. Whichever medium you create it on the basic process is the same. Simply take any images that are meaningful to you and add these onto your mood board. It might be pictures of sports cars, exotic holiday spots, luxury beach houses or as simple as pictures of your family just hanging out - whatever is meaningful to you personally and represents what your success will allow you to have and do should go in there. Once you're done, hang it somewhere so you can take a peak whenever you're low on inspiration.
