Last week I led my Ultimate Vision Board Workshop in person with a group of inspiring women at the historic Rainier Club in Seattle. We enjoyed delicate tea sandwiches, macarons, and a champagne toast, creating the kind of space where sharing your biggest dreams is celebrated.

I walked the group through my unique framework, each activity building on the last. We got granular about 10 different areas of your life and imagined what you would do tomorrow if you had $444 million in the bank.🤩

At the end of our time, I heard several variations of this sentiment: “I’ve made vision boards before, but never like this. We got deep! No one else has ever explained the science of why and how to get them to actually work.”

Most people think vision boards are cute and crafty, or something for the woo-woo spiritual girlies…not something ambitious, serious, professional women use as a tool to accelerate their goals.

But the real power of a vision board is how it changes what your brain pays attention to and believes is possible for you.

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Here are 3 science-backed reasons your brain responds so strongly to a vision board:

1. Your RAS starts filtering for your goals.

Your Reticular Activating System is the part of your brain that acts like a built-in filter. It’s constantly sorting through noise and deciding what you actually notice.

Let’s say you’re thinking about buying a red Subaru, and suddenly you see them everywhere. Or you’re wanting to have a baby, and then you notice pregnant women at work, at the grocery store, on TV shows.

Those things didn’t multiply overnight; you signaled to your brain this was something you’re thinking about, so it began pulling that information to the front of your awareness.

When you intentionally choose images that reflect the life you’re aligning with, your RAS begins prioritizing anything connected to those intentions. Your brain is literally filtering, so that you notice different opportunities than you did before.

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2. Mental rehearsal strengthens neural pathways.

Professional athletes and Olympians use visualization because the brain responds to imagined action similarly to real action. They imagine sticking the landing or skiing the perfect run, and research shows this leads to measurable improvement.

You might do this when planning a tough conversation, mentally walking through what you want to say and how you hope it goes. This rehearsal builds the neural pathway, making it easier to stay grounded when the real moment comes.

When you repeatedly see an image that represents your next level, your brain treats it like a familiar path, something that is possible for you, not a far-off dream.

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3. Confirmation bias starts working in your favor.

Once you’ve created a clear picture of what you want, your brain naturally begins looking for evidence that supports it. Your brain loves to be right.

If your inner voice says things like, “I’m not good/smart enough,” your brain will spotlight anything that confirms that: the one thing you didn’t know in a meeting, the peer with the PhD, the colleague who just got promoted.

When you shift to “I can learn this, and I’ve always figured things out,” your brain starts highlighting the evidence that matches that story: your problem-solving skills, your resilience, the challenges you’ve already navigated.

When you create a vision board, you’re telling your brain to look for evidence that these things are true for you, so you can start seeing possibilities that may have always been there, but finally register.

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If the science behind vision boards is resonating, and you want to help your brain do this work more intentionally, here’s your invitation:

Grab the Ultimate Vision Board Workshop

A guided, step-by-step experience that shows you exactly how to create a vision board (even from home in your pajamas), so you can end the weekend with a beautiful, visual tool that actually trains your brain to notice the opportunities you want.

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If you want support not just in designing your vision board, but in becoming the person who can bring it to life, the Manifesting Accelerator is for you.

Grab the Manifesting Accelerator (Direct check-out link)

Includes The Ultimate Vision Board Workshop, plus:
✨ Next Level You
✨ Magic & Mindset

1. Think of your vision board as the architectural drawing of the life you want, the clear visual that shows the design of your life.
2. Next Level You is like the engineering plan: the deeper work that helps you develop the skills, confidence, and self-identity to actually build what you’ve designed.
3. Magic & Mindset is the quick-start guide that teaches you how to manifest on purpose.

Together, these three programs shift your mindset, your identity, and the way you pursue your goals, so you can actually LIVE the life you’ve been dreaming about instead of just pinning it to a board.

If you have questions about any of these, just reply. It’s really solopreneur me on the other side, cheering for you.

Warmly,
Nicole