#293: Vision Board and 5 Year Plan
A Beautiful Mess Podcast
Elsie Larson and Emma Chapman
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode we're diving into how to make vision boards and 5 year plans. If you're in the mood to think about your goals and dreams, you're in the right place. We're also answering some listener questions and engaging in a Hot Take Debate about whether romantic comedies are actually the worst.
How to make a vision board:
Create different categories for your goals (family, work, fitness, etc)
Write in present tense
Get pictures from the internet or magazines
"We overestimate what we can do in a day, but we underestimate what we can do in a year."
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Beautiful Mess podcast, your cozy comfort listen. |
| 0:08.5 | I'm your host Elsie Larson. |
| 0:10.0 | And I'm your host, Emma Chapman. |
| 0:11.3 | In this week's episode, we're diving into how to make vision boards and five-year plans. |
| 0:16.3 | If you're in the mood to think about goals and dreams, you're in the right place. |
| 0:20.0 | We're also answering some listener questions and engaging in a hot to think about goals and dreams you're in the right place. We're also answering some |
| 0:21.5 | listener questions and engaging in a hot take debate about whether romantic comedies are actually |
| 0:27.2 | the worst. Oh, shots fired. I love it. So let's just jump right in. So how to make a vision board. |
| 0:37.4 | We're going to talk about vision boards and then we're going to take about five year plan. But I kind of want to say like five or 10 year plan because they're kind of the same thing. Just the scale is a little bit different. Yeah. We'll talk about this more when we get to the five year plan. But I do kind of think sometimes the number, the year number can kind of hang up on you. So don't just hang with us. |
| 0:55.6 | What we're talking about is big goals and breaking it down. And also before we talk about each of |
| 0:59.6 | these, the vision board, which we'll talk about first and then the five-year plan or 10-year plan, |
| 1:04.1 | how everyone will look at it. Here's what I'll say before we start is I think that the vision board |
| 1:09.0 | to me is all about curating the vibe that you want for your life. |
| 1:13.2 | It's like visual vibes. So like this is the feeling that I want my life to have. Whereas the five year plan thing to me is like that's making a roadmap. This is my specific how I'm going to get from here to there type thing. So these are two very different things. |
| 1:28.7 | And I wanted to kind of say that because I want to pitch, you do need both. |
| 1:32.2 | I think. |
| 1:32.9 | I think both are very good for very different reasons. |
| 1:36.3 | And I think to only do one and not the other, like you're kind of missing out. |
| 1:39.3 | So like, they're fun. |
| 1:40.6 | Get into it. |
| 1:41.2 | Let's do it. |
| 1:41.9 | I don't know. |
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