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Why Vision Boards Fail (And How to Fix Them)

Most of us don’t have a motivation problem.

We have a too-much-advice problem.

If you’ve ever saved hundreds of self-improvement posts, understood all of them, and still felt overwhelmed, guilty, and no closer to actually changing anything — this episode is for you.

In the first ever episode of Field Notes, I explain the premise of the podcast and put our first experiment to the test: vision boards. Not the fantasy, yacht-and-linen version — but the kind that might actually work in real life.

I talk through:

• why modern vision boards often backfire
• the neuroscience behind why visual cues can work
• where self-help goes wrong when it focuses on outcomes instead of process
• how humans have used imagery for survival and behaviour change across history
• and why cave art might be a better model for self-improvement than Pinterest

I also bring along my 2024 and 2025 vision boards as the first (and most humiliating) guests on the show, including the one goal that accidentally did work thanks to a Sarah Connor lock-screen.

This podcast isn’t about becoming a new person overnight.

It’s about filtering advice, testing one small idea at a time, and figuring out what’s actually worth doing, outside of perfect conditions.

On Friday, I’ll be back with a short Field Report on what happened when I made a process-based vision board and whether it helped or just gave me another thing to judge myself by.

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