What started as a simple experiment turned into one of the most powerful discoveries I have made in my entire AI journey. I took a picture from my vision board, uploaded it to ChatGPT, and started a conversation about who I am becoming. What happened next changed how I think about AI, identity, and creation.
This is the ChatGPT x Vision Board method. It is a way to use AI as a mirror for your future self, and it is available to you right now.
When you prompt from identity, everything changes. You stop asking AI for answers and start co-creating from the future you already know is yours.
How It Started
I have kept a vision board for years. Images that represent where I am going. The life I am building. The impact I want to make. It hangs in my office, and I look at it every day.
One morning, I had an idea: what if I brought my vision board INTO ChatGPT? What if I gave AI the visual representation of my future self and asked it to help me build from that place?
I took a photo of one image from my board, uploaded it, and typed a simple prompt: "This image represents where I am going. Based on what you know about me, my vision, and my goals, help me think about what my next move should be from the perspective of the person in this picture."
The response stopped me in my tracks. It was specific. It was strategic. And it was written from the perspective of my future self, the person I am becoming. Not the person I am today. Not the person I was yesterday. The person I am building toward.
Why This Works
Most people use AI to solve today's problems. That is valuable. But there is a higher level of engagement that most people have never experienced: prompting from identity.
When you ask ChatGPT to respond from the perspective of your future self, something shifts in the conversation. The outputs are bolder. The strategies are bigger. The thinking is clearer. Because you are not operating from where you are. You are operating from where you are going.
The Vision Board Connection
Your vision board already holds the energy of your future. The images you chose represent something real. Something you feel in your bones. Something you know is coming.
When you bring those images into ChatGPT along with your Soul Data, you create a bridge between your current reality and your future identity. AI becomes the bridge builder. It takes the vision you can feel and turns it into strategy, action steps, and content that moves you closer to it.
The Step-by-Step Process
Step 1: Choose Your Vision Board Image
Pick one image from your vision board that represents where you are going. It could be a lifestyle image, a business achievement, a stage you want to speak on, a place you want to live. Choose the one that makes you feel something.
Step 2: Upload It to ChatGPT
Open a new ChatGPT conversation (or use your existing AI Operating System thread). Upload the image and provide context about what it represents for you.
Step 3: Prompt from Identity
Use this prompt as your starting point:
"This image represents my future self and where I am heading. Based on everything you know about me, my vision, and my values, respond to me as if I am already this person. What should I be focused on right now to make this real? What decisions would this version of me make today?"
Step 4: Build on the Response
Do not just read the response and move on. This is a conversation. Build on it. Ask follow-up questions. Go deeper. Let the thread evolve into a strategic planning session guided by your future self.
Step 5: Take Action
The most important step. Take one thing from this conversation and do it today. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Today. That is how you close the gap between your current self and your future self.
What You Are Actually Building
This is more than a creative exercise. When you break down what is happening, you are building a new interaction paradigm with AI:
- Vision becomes input. Your vision board image is not just inspiration. It is a prompt. It is data. It is strategic context that shapes everything ChatGPT returns.
- Identity becomes the lens. You are not asking from a place of uncertainty. You are asking from a place of certainty about who you are becoming. That changes the quality of every output.
- AI becomes a mirror. ChatGPT reflects back your highest self. It becomes a tool for identity reinforcement, not just task completion.
- Creation becomes aligned. Everything you build from this place is aligned with your vision. Content, strategies, offers, decisions, all of it comes from the same source.
You are not teaching AI how to prompt. You are teaching it how to see you at your highest. And when it sees you there, it helps you build from that place.
How Different People Can Use This
If You Are New to AI
This is one of the best ways to start. You do not need deep AI fluency. You do not need a library of prompts. You just need a vision board image and the willingness to imagine. Even a simple output from ChatGPT can spark something powerful when it is reflecting your future self back to you.
If You Use AI Occasionally
This will deepen your relationship with ChatGPT. You have used it for tasks, but you have not had it speak to you like this. When you see how prompting from identity produces better output, you will start to trust the tool at a whole new level.
If You Are a Daily Power User
This becomes a system. You can build entire workflows around this paradigm. Stack your vision inputs with your Soul Data, your AI memory setups, and your daily prompts. Create an operating layer where every conversation starts from your highest self.
What This Makes Possible
When you use AI as a future-self mirror, you gain access to:
- Better creative execution. Ideas that flow from your highest vision, not your current limitations.
- More honest awareness. Clear sight of what needs to shift to close the gap between now and where you are going.
- Higher-leverage thinking. Strategic moves that compound because they are aligned with your long-term direction.
- Identity-congruent action. Decisions that match who you are becoming, not who you used to be.
This is a shift in how humans interact with intelligence. And it is happening right now, for anyone willing to try it.
Your Invitation
If you have a vision board (or even a single image that represents your future), try this today. Upload it to ChatGPT. Start a conversation from that place. See what comes back. I think you will be surprised by how powerful it feels.
If you are ready to go deeper and build this into a complete Future Builder system, that is exactly what I help my clients do. I believe in a human first, heart first approach to creating with AI. Your vision board is the starting point. AI is how you bring it to life.
