This is the first of three installments I will be posting over the next few days regarding how to create a powerful and compelling vision for one's life. Let me know your thoughs....
One's life vision serves as an emotional, mental and visual motivator for your life. Your vision should be an outgrowth and extension of your mission, which is based on your values. Here are some guidelines for writing a compelling and powerful vision statement.
Include All Areas of Your Life
One's vision should incorporate every area of life, creating a balanced, full and vital experience. Areas to consider including are: Health and Well Being, Career, Financial, Fun and Adventure, Education and Skill Building, Personal Growth, Spirituality, Giving and Contribution, Romance and Intimacy, Relationships, Family, Community. In each of these areas, you want to focus on what you want to give as much as what you want to receive, earn, experience and develop.
Express Everything You Can Imagine
One's personal vision is much larger, longer and comprehensive than one's mission statement. The purpose of a vision is to create a detailed picture of how you want your life to look and feel. One's vision serves to energize, inspire and create the outer framework for one's goals and action plans. Take as much space as you need to accomplish this goal. It may take you several days, or even weeks to fully capture the essence of the vision for the next five years.
Create a vision for the next five years. Five years is a long time, 1,825 days to be exact. Yet this is a manageable time frame for your mind to hold. One year visions are often too short of a time frame to build momentum and develop greater goals, and beyond five years often feel too abstract and remote to engender vital emotion that is an important element to your vision. The vision can be written in prose, or simple bullet points of detailed items in each category, so long as what you are writing captures what you want to focus on over this next phase of your life.
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Jackie,
ReplyDeleteGreat post! In my life I have found that 5 years out I end up being involved in and accomplishing things I could not have even imagined 5 years earlier! So my vision in a nutshell is to allow the rampant creative flow that manifests my work, projects, connections and awesome life.
Just the boost I need to finish the 5 year mission vision! Working on it....
ReplyDeleteYes, five years gives me more time to write the best selling book(s), return to my normal lean and serene self, and reach for the highest and best I want to give and receive -- thanks for the extra luxurious feeling timeframe!
ReplyDeleteWhat is frustrating is knowing that so many of my goals COULD be manifest pretty quickly, yet I plod along in time...I want to be more allowing of my dreams...but it is what it is...and as an eternal being, there truly isn't a big rush, is there? LOL...see you at UOTR!
Thanks for all the comments. Love hearing people's thoughts about vision and goals. Get to it! It's a big, beautiful world out there!
ReplyDeleteMuch love,
Jackie