If you are a weak-willed individual who needs to believe in magical thinking, a diagnosable criterion for numerous mental disorders (such as Schizotypal PD), and "magical vision boards" to get things accomplished - well, knock yourself out.
In your Its always sunny reference, "the gang" makes vision boards of places they want to go and things to get.
Their strategy is to ONLY STARE AT THE BOARD AND HOPE. If a person is just sitting, gazing at their board, then of course NOTHING WILL HAPPEN, the power resides in your subconscious not the board.
Your brain is 90% subconscious. It is constantly scanning for the familiar and dissimilar.
If a person made a vision board, put pictures of hawaii beaches (thats where they want to travel) , they photoshoped their face onto a muscle bound person (they want to be buff)
then went about their day, their subconscious will be scanning for things related to those objects. It relates to the baader meinhof phenomenon. If you know what kind of new car youre going to buy, your brain will notice the same car model far more often.
-Seeing the pictures reinforces in your mind what you want
-Your brain scans intently through your senses.
-Youre more likely to know what you "dont want".
-They give off a higher amount of confidence which is noticed and helps to achieve their goal.
It ties in with "self fulfilling prophesy's"
meep
I appreciate the thorough reply. I think you diagnosed well why this didn't go so well for the Sunny crew.
My real point is all that can be done without the vision board. All you need is discipline.
I have met people who think that creating the board has effectively accomplished all their personal investment into the process.
For anyone else, go with what works.