Set your intentions with our FREE 2025 Small Business Planner & Steps for Creating a Vision Board
With the holiday season winding down and we are counting the days until the new year, it’s a natural time to pause and reflect. We are sure your year has been filled with its own unique challenges, wins, and lessons. With the new year just around the corner, it's also an opportunity to recharge, reset, and start thinking ahead to the goals and intentions you want to manifest in 2025. Whether you're looking to make big business changes, focusing on achieving a few manageable goals, or improve your day-to-day habits, taking time to reflect now can lay a solid foundation for a more successful year ahead.
To help you get organized and set meaningful goals for the year ahead, we are sharing our FREE 2025 Small Business Planner, designed to guide you through the process of reflection and planning your business goals. Take advantage of this resource to start planning a year filled with growth, achievement, and balance. Let's make 2025 your best year yet!
Once you have had a chance to reflect and jot down some of your hopes and dreams for the new year, we recommend creating a vision board. This is one of our favorite things to do. Not only will it help with your planning, but a vision board will inspire you, bring clarity, and help you focus on your goals. To get started creating your 2025 vision board, follow these easy steps!
First, what is a vision board? It is normally a collage (physical or digital) of images, words, and affirmations that represent what you want to achieve or manifest in your life and/or business.
Step 1: Select your medium – Physical vs. Digital
Physical Vision Board
Create a physical board using a cork board, foam board or construction paper. Gather some visuals taken from magazines, print images, quotes, and imagery that visually represent your goals and dreams. Then once you have everything gathered, create a collage using scissors, glue and/ or pins. Fill in with writing, quotes, and affirmations using markers or pins.
Digital Vision Board
We like using Pinterest for this! Create a secret Pinterest board and Pin inspirational images, quotes, colors, fonts, etc. Keep this Pinterest board bookmarked for easy access or set it as your homepage.
Pro Tip: If you have Canva, you can also create your digital vision board using the FREE online “white board” where you can pin and arrange images/text. You can also share it with team members!
Step 2: Choose a theme
To prevent your vision board from being too cluttered and unfocused, pick a theme. You can have more than one vision board Here are some themes to try:
Mission statement
Financial goals
Team growth
Launches
Customer relationships & testimonials
Branding
Social media presence
Campaigns
Press hits
Influencer collaborations
Leadership skills
Work/life balance
Values
Timeline of goals
Visionary words
Step 3: Use it!
A vision board does not work unless you use it! Keep it saved where you can view it daily that way your goals stay top of mind. It is also not set in stone; you can update it as your year progresses or if you see something inspiring.
For guidance in creating and executing a 2025 PR plan and creating your vision board, join our membership! This month we’re guiding members through our 2025 PR Plan Checklist & vision board exercise. We hope you’ll join us.
~ Carla and Kathryn
