Vision Boards & Spring Cleaning
While cleaning out my various drives, I stumbled upon my 2023 mood board, which was surprisingly accurate for how the year went *record scratch*
I usually resent the entire concept of spring cleaning, but one benefit to it is that you’ll often find long-forgotten artifacts napping underneath your pile of winter boots posing as an art installation.
This year, I started with some light digital tidying - organizing my project plans, rearranging my drive folders, deleting unneeded documents, etc. While going through my Canva projects this week, I found the Pinterest-inspired vision board I put together just over a year ago, and was a bit taken aback at how these words ended up defining the last 12 months of my life.
Create: 2023 was the year I started creating more than I have in recent years, with a focus on creating more than I consume in order to give myself a voice in ongoing conversations
Peace: I made a massive move in 2023, living outside of a city for the first time in my adult life. Peace ended up looking a lot different than I’d imagined it would, but finding that I have deep stores of peaceful energy within myself has been nothing short of life-changing
Forgive: Perhaps the most challenging, most ongoing theme of this bunch. Forgiveness to me has become a constant practice - one of reminding myself to look forward, instead of revisiting the past
Explore: Travel and exploration have become the most important pieces of my life, and I’m consistently grateful to have built a life that supports and enables this facet of self-care
Recover: My 2023 was one of healing on a multitude of levels. I learned that healing and recovering doesn’t often look like blissful stretching sessions or a peaceful morning in nature. In fact, it more often looks like uncovering your inner darkness, looking at it head-on, making friends with it, and learning how to work with it
I haven’t made a vision board yet for 2024, but maybe I don’t need to. It feels like these have more depths to them still.
xo
Thanks for sharing this!
"Peace ended up looking a lot different than I’d imagined it would, but finding that I have deep stores of peaceful energy within myself has been nothing short of life-changing."
Surprise can be such an underrated value, no? I feel like when I'm surprised by how something ends up looking, I end up learning something really important about myself.