The power of clarifying your vision
from: EEWMAGAZINE.com
Often dreams are kept safely tucked away so that no one else can see them—the mountain you want to climb, the country you want to visit, the car you want to drive, the classes you want to take, the book you want to write. Courage is the key that unleashes those visions and brings them to the forefront. It takes guts to admit that your dreams are far-reaching, that is, by your perception of what is truly impossible.
You may want to find your place in history, blaze a trail, maintain a winning attitude, harness your thoughts, or just touch someone’s life. The difference in the people who unveil those visions and place them in full view, and the people who do nothing, is simply their mindset. There is a famous passage of scripture that says, “Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Proverbs 29:18). We will begin here. I believe everyone needs a written personal vision statement for their life. Your vision statement is the first step in putting your life in focus. Life should be lived by design, not by default. If you are waking up each day without a plan, you are at the mercy of whatever comes your way. You are apt to get much of the same as any other day.
Think about it. If I showed up to design your home without a space and floor plan or a vision for the design, then
rolled up my sleeves to go to work, you would conclude that I don’t know what I am doing. Why? Because you understand that the vision guides the design.
In the same way, your vision statement guides your life. Your vision provides the direction necessary to guide the course of your days and the choices you make about everything that affects your life. You set goals based on your vision. Your persistence in fulfilling your purpose comes from your vision. It outlines and details what you want to become.
I believe most of us are familiar with the passage that tells us to write the vision and make it plain. (Habakkuk 2:2) You need a vision for your home, your family and your personal, spiritual and career development. Another reason that a life vision is important is because you don’t want to let life catch you working on arbitrary tasks that have no significance and meaning. You don’t want to live by default—focusing on staying busy instead of have a systematic plan to generate results that really matter. A purposeful and joyful life is discovered by doing what is meaningful.
I want to give you some things to ponder for guiding your thoughts in preparing to write your personal vision statement for 2011.
1. What are the life categories that impact everything you do? You may want to begin with family and relationships, home and living environment, spiritual and personal development, health and well-being, and career and financial health.
2. How can you realistically see these areas unfolding in your life? Not how they actually are, but how you desire them to become. Here is your opportunity to live your divinely inspired dreams through your imagination first. Describe your best life design. How do you see your family and relations? Can you see your home environment as one of order and peace, functioning in harmony with the way you live? Picture your ideal spirituality. Feel the person you
are, your true life design. What have you accomplished? What colleges are your children attending? Hold those pictures—your movie of your best life design—in your mind. Nothing will be restrained from you, which you have imagined to do (Genesis 11:6). You will begin to notice the changes you need to make to honor this vision and lead a powerful life.
On a side note, it is unequivocally possible to have those things imagined that you don’t want to manifest in your life. So be careful about what you think about and ponder on. Your life may be out of order because you have not regulated your inner thoughts.
3. Think about five or ten things that you enjoy doing. Tap into what makes you feel a sense of accomplishment.
4. Think about your personal values. They are generally terms that describe the principles and standards that you embrace that may include words like wisdom, resolve, freedom, accomplishment, determination, aggressiveness; words that will help you find your “ah - ha” within.
5. Think about what you would regret not having done if your life was
ending today?
Compile all of the brainstorming you’ve done and prepare to write your life’s vision statement. Write in first person and make statements about the future you hope to achieve. Write the statements as if you are already making them happen in your life like this: I am…then complete the sentence. You may have an overall general vision, then smaller directed visions. One of my personal vision statements is, “I am elevating, educating and motivating the masses to break-free of barriers and live the life God has for them.” Yours may be creating solidarity in your home, family and personal relations.
See your personal vision as a snap-shot of your true life design in the future. It includes all the important elements of your life. Consider it your statement of who you are and who you are becoming, which is the framework for the process of designing your best life.
You may want to find your place in history, blaze a trail, maintain a winning attitude, harness your thoughts, or just touch someone’s life. The difference in the people who unveil those visions and place them in full view, and the people who do nothing, is simply their mindset. There is a famous passage of scripture that says, “Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Proverbs 29:18). We will begin here. I believe everyone needs a written personal vision statement for their life. Your vision statement is the first step in putting your life in focus. Life should be lived by design, not by default. If you are waking up each day without a plan, you are at the mercy of whatever comes your way. You are apt to get much of the same as any other day.
Think about it. If I showed up to design your home without a space and floor plan or a vision for the design, then
rolled up my sleeves to go to work, you would conclude that I don’t know what I am doing. Why? Because you understand that the vision guides the design.
In the same way, your vision statement guides your life. Your vision provides the direction necessary to guide the course of your days and the choices you make about everything that affects your life. You set goals based on your vision. Your persistence in fulfilling your purpose comes from your vision. It outlines and details what you want to become.
I believe most of us are familiar with the passage that tells us to write the vision and make it plain. (Habakkuk 2:2) You need a vision for your home, your family and your personal, spiritual and career development. Another reason that a life vision is important is because you don’t want to let life catch you working on arbitrary tasks that have no significance and meaning. You don’t want to live by default—focusing on staying busy instead of have a systematic plan to generate results that really matter. A purposeful and joyful life is discovered by doing what is meaningful.
I want to give you some things to ponder for guiding your thoughts in preparing to write your personal vision statement for 2011.
1. What are the life categories that impact everything you do? You may want to begin with family and relationships, home and living environment, spiritual and personal development, health and well-being, and career and financial health.
2. How can you realistically see these areas unfolding in your life? Not how they actually are, but how you desire them to become. Here is your opportunity to live your divinely inspired dreams through your imagination first. Describe your best life design. How do you see your family and relations? Can you see your home environment as one of order and peace, functioning in harmony with the way you live? Picture your ideal spirituality. Feel the person you
are, your true life design. What have you accomplished? What colleges are your children attending? Hold those pictures—your movie of your best life design—in your mind. Nothing will be restrained from you, which you have imagined to do (Genesis 11:6). You will begin to notice the changes you need to make to honor this vision and lead a powerful life.
On a side note, it is unequivocally possible to have those things imagined that you don’t want to manifest in your life. So be careful about what you think about and ponder on. Your life may be out of order because you have not regulated your inner thoughts.
3. Think about five or ten things that you enjoy doing. Tap into what makes you feel a sense of accomplishment.
4. Think about your personal values. They are generally terms that describe the principles and standards that you embrace that may include words like wisdom, resolve, freedom, accomplishment, determination, aggressiveness; words that will help you find your “ah - ha” within.
5. Think about what you would regret not having done if your life was
ending today?
Compile all of the brainstorming you’ve done and prepare to write your life’s vision statement. Write in first person and make statements about the future you hope to achieve. Write the statements as if you are already making them happen in your life like this: I am…then complete the sentence. You may have an overall general vision, then smaller directed visions. One of my personal vision statements is, “I am elevating, educating and motivating the masses to break-free of barriers and live the life God has for them.” Yours may be creating solidarity in your home, family and personal relations.
See your personal vision as a snap-shot of your true life design in the future. It includes all the important elements of your life. Consider it your statement of who you are and who you are becoming, which is the framework for the process of designing your best life.
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