Bishop Gorman students take a step ahead into 2025 with vision boards portraying their future achievements.
The theology department encouraged their junior classes to create and share these boards. Several of her juniors are aiming for better grades and pushing themselves to fit their full potential.
Kamryn Farley ‘26 created a digital vision board and said “It helped me visualize what goals I want to meet this year and what I want to put my focus on in 2025.” Her main goals were to strive for straight A’s and put herself first.
Similarly, Jack Goddard ‘26 focused mainly on academic goals and said, “I’m more prepared because I know what I’m working towards, but it will still be hard with sports.”
Kennedi Pridgen ‘26 said “I want to work harder for better grades and learn more tricks in snowboarding”. After asking if she felt accomplished, she said “Yes, I felt like I had a set thing to work towards and I’m motivated for it”. Making an actual board helped her picture her goals better rather than just thinking about them.
Aside from focusing on academic goals, some students might just want to learn new things or get better at extracurriculars. Pridgen made a great example by mentioning snowboarding.
Outside of school, some students made physical boards, alone or with their friends, to manifest what they wanted to get out of 2025.
Darbee Boynton 25’ said “[A vision board] makes me more motivated and gives me a positive outlook on this upcoming year since I am graduating.” Considering her graduation, she is very excited to make this board and decided to do it with some of her friends. “I mostly had traveling, focusing on my health, college things, and exercise related goals on my board.” She made sure to make her goals realistic and felt more than happy to have done this with other people.
Whether made in class or with friends, vision boards help to creatively set goals for the upcoming year, and let students have a visual representation of what they want to achieve or attain.
