Experts have been suggesting making goals tangible by writing them down for years. What about turning goals into art, in addition to writing?
Achieving goals, fostering the importance of goal making, and living daily working toward something important is a primary ingredient in a lot of people’s lives. By placing attention on how important it is to achieve these goals by making them tangible, success is more likely to be on the horizon.
It might be a good idea to find an artist friend to work on this art journal prompt with. This will help others understand what your goals are, plus it will give you the chance to support someone else in achieving their goals. Family members are another good choice for working on this art journal prompt.
For this art journal prompt, you will need the following materials:
- Your art journal
- Ballpoint pen
- Glitter gel pens (or markers, colored pencils, crayons)
- Glitter glue or metallic paints
- Chalk or distress ink
Follow these instructions to complete this art journal prompt:
- Open your art journal to the first blank page spread. Spend a little time looking at the blank pages for a moment, and just think.
- Using a ballpoint pen, brainstorm every goal that comes to mind. Write as quickly as you can, just a stream-of-consciousness type of thing. Do not worry about your penmanship, do not worry about your spelling, and do not worry how neat or messy the pages look. Just get it all out as quickly as you can.
- Read over everything written and add details wherever necessary. If a list about how to achieve these goals come to mind, write the down somewhere near the goal. If additional goals come to mind, add those as well.
- Using glitter gel pens, markers, colored pencils, or crayons, draw and doodle in all the blank space on the page. Underline key words, decorate other words, outline phrases, and make the page really exciting.
- Create a border around the pages in a random pattern using glitter glue or metallic paint. Be sure to allow this treatment to dry completely before moving on to the next step.
- Add chalk or distress ink to the edges of each page in the spread to give it a more finished look.
Repeat these page spreads in your art journal until you have properly written out and embellished each of your goals, and how you plan to achieve them. This will help make them real, it will give you the opportunity to read them often (and stay excited about them), and allow a better opportunity to achieve them.
