Top Promoters reveal their vision boards and explain how to use one to help achieve your wildest business and personal goals.

Look at your vision board daily and imagine how it’ll feel to live with the items on your board. If you feel that it’s already happened, it’s easier to achieve it.

Elise Lininger

On his big vision board, successful Promoter Casey Carter posted pictures of his dream car – a Ferrari F12 – and dream home with a guest house for his autistic son to live in. “I take it a step further,” he says. “I’ve test-driven my dream car, so I know how it feels behind the steering wheel. I’ve toured houses for sale so I can really visualize myself waking up and cooking my kids breakfast.”

Carter says this visceral feeling paired with his vision board’s pictures keeps him working toward something. “Otherwise, I’d be distracted by life’s curve balls that get thrown at us all,” he says.

Similarly, the first thing you see when you walk into Brittney Williams’ house is a massive, three-panel vision board. “I’m obsessed with vision boards,” says Williams, a 200K Promoter and Millionaire Award honoree. “I’m here because of someone else’s dream board.”

Before she joined Le-Vel nearly four years ago, Williams cleaned houses to make ends meet for her family. One of her clients was a Le-Vel Promoter with a prominent vision board in her house.

She was living the Le-Vel life in front of me, literally marking off the dreams she made come true for herself,” Williams says. “And these words kept haunting me: ‘Why not me? My dreams are just as important.’

Brittney Williams

A vision board is a powerful tool people use to get clear on what their business and personal goals are, and then concentrate and maintain focus on them until they achieve them. And the device works: 82 percent of business owners who’ve used a vision board from the day they opened their doors report that they’ve accomplished more than half the goals they included on the board. That’s according to a TD Bank survey of small-business owners nationwide, analyzed by psychologist Barbara Nussbaum, who specializes in money’s psychological and emotional impacts.

“That vision board is the ‘why’ behind what you’re doing – and it’s different for all of us,” Williams says. “It’s the fuel for your business, especially when things get tough. You define your future by the thoughts and pictures you hold in your mind today.”

Create Your Vision Board

First, grab a notepad and consider your current status: business, finance, personal growth, relationships, health and leisure. As you think about each area, write down your goals and aspirations for each one (like, “I want to become a 200K Promoter. I want to take my kids to Disney World. I want to run two miles each day”).

Then, get ready to build your board. “You don’t need to be crafty at all to create an inspiring board,” Williams says. “My first board wasn’t that pretty. I used a permanent marker and black-and-white images, but it was mine. I was driving a car with the bumpers screwed on, so I had a picture of the Le-Vel vehicle I wanted. Plus, I wanted to move from a trailer with no phone service to a home.”

Put aside about an hour or two to create the first incarnation of your board. Gather a cork board or poster board, markers, scissors, tape, pins or a glue stick, magazines to cut pictures and quotes from, and personal items like photos or postcards that inspire you. Then, using your goals list as a guide, cut out images and words that represent those goals. Place the items on your board, feeling free to overlap them – or space them out if you prefer a clutter-free look – before you start taping or gluing.

Williams’ three-part vision cork board grows with her: One panel shows her accomplishments. “When I achieve a goal, I move my image from the goal section,” says Williams, who includes paying off her house, landing a beach house in Florida, upgrading her wedding ring, and scoring vehicles paid for by Le-Vel on her “done” section. “I don’t want to forget the journey.”

A second panel includes whatever (or whoever) inspires her, plus her gratitude list. “I include emails or notes from people who I’ve helped or made a difference in their lives,” Williams says.

Currently on Williams’ goals list: travel in Europe for her 10th wedding anniversary, funding mission trips for her church, buying mobile home parks and helping three Promoters on her downline team become 200K Promoters.

Work Your Board

To make it work for you, spend time with your vision board on the daily. Visualizing what your life will be like when you’ve achieved your current goals focuses your mind on getting there and improves your performance. For example, if you want to buy a beach house, walk through its rooms and then outside onto the sand – feel the sun and wind, and get emotional about it: elated, happy, grateful. “Without this visioneering, your dreams die,” Williams says. “Only put what’s meaningful on your vision board. Using pictures to see really is believing your goals into reality.”

Similarly, Promoter Elise Lininger, has created a new vision board every year for 10 years and says spending time with her board is key. “Nearly everything I’ve put on my vision board has come to fruition,” she says. “When you spend time getting clear on what you want in your life, and how you want to give back to others, it happens because you imagine how it’ll feel to live with the items on your board. Feel it as if it has already happened.”

Get Your Family Involved

Once you start experiencing the power of your vision board in helping you get super-clear on what you want in your life, start inviting your family to participate.

Some Promoters sit down with their families to ask them what they want in their life: Where do you want to travel? What hobbies do you want to take up? Want to play a sport or a musical instrument? How do you want to help other people?

Williams, whose daughters are 7 and 6, gets them busy cutting out pictures. “It helps us explain why their lives are different,” she says. “‘This is why Daddy can work from home’ and ‘how we get to go on another beach vacation.’ ”

Throw a Vision Board Party

For Promoter Brittney Williams, vision board parties are a great way to get new Promoters excited about the Le-Vel lifestyles. “One of the first things I do with new team members is to show them my board and how to create one.”

Williams helps host local vision board parties, which are fun gatherings where people define the lives they want for themselves, alongside other people doing the same thing. Here are three tips for throwing a vision board party to remember.

1. Invite 10 to 12 people

Keep your party as a small, intimate group who can all fit around a table together. Crowd source supplies by asking guests to bring poster board, magazines and markers. Also invite them to bring personal items like photos and printed-out quotes.

2. Build your boards

Ask everyone to introduce themselves and talk about what they want to achieve with their vision boards. Offer a few minutes for people to write down some of their goals in these areas: business, finance, personal growth, relationships, health and leisure. Then, show off your board – and let everyone get creative.

3. Host parties yearly – and whenever

The new year’s a good time to create and revisit existing boards. You can even host quarterly parties where attendees review what they’ve accomplished so far and share those wins with others.