A vision is a picture of how wonderful our lives can be. It focuses on our potential, opportunity, and possibility. A healthy vision is both reality-based and potential-based.
We are 100 times more motivated moving towards what we want, than away from what we don’t want. Create a picture of what you want! Our goals lead you toward your vision, or they’re not the right goals.
How a Vision Can Improve Your Life
- Opens you up to your potential
- It gives meaning to mundane tasks
- Decreases anxiety
- Helps you make the best decisions possible
- It creates excitement about your future
- Inspires discipline and focus
- Eliminates those activities not leading to your vision
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung
People hire me to help them find clarity. I ask questions that inspire them to dream. Below are some of the steps they take.
4 Steps to Crafting & Executing Your Vision This Year
1st Step: Create a Foundation
Anxiety, depression, relationship issues, emotional challenges, and low self-worth create blockages to having clarity & being your true self. Work on yourself first.
It can be hard planning an amazing future, especially if you have unprocessed trauma, grief, anxiety, and/or depression. Your mind won’t want to go there, yet it’s just what you need.
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2nd Step: Write it Down
Write down what your ideal life can look like in one year, two years, or five years. Just jot down whatever intuitively comes to mind. Dream big and resist perfectionism.
Download this worksheet and take 30 minutes for this activity. On the first pass, any more than 30 minutes is overkill. You’ll have time to refine it later. Trust yourself. Create a vision summary and edit as you wish.
3rd Step: Use Filters
Your vision needs to foster life balance and align with your life purpose, core values, and core needs. If it doesn’t, then it’s not a healthy vision.
“Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies” – Ann Landers
4th Step: Act
Don’t play it safe. Let go of the outcome and act. Set short-term objectives (i.e., 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, etc.) that lead you toward this vision. Make adjustments as needed. Remember, perfectionism is the enemy of progress!
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