Numerous experts on leadership and personal development emphasize how vital it is for you to craft your own personal vision for your life.
Experts point out:
- that a vision can help you succeed far beyond where you'd be without one.
-that vision can propel you and inspire those around you to reach their own dreams.
If you don't identify your vision, others will plan and direct your life for you.
Senge defines vision as what you want to create of yourself and the world around you.
What does your vision include? Making a vital change in an area such as health, technology, or the environment? Raising happy, well-adjusted children? Writing a book? Owning your own business? Living on a beach? Being very fit and healthy? Visiting every continent? Helping others with their spiritual development? What are you good at? What do you love to do? What aren't you good at now, but you'd like to be? All of these important questions are part of identifying your personal vision.
Use this Tool #1 to think through and start to craft your personal vision. It's adapted from many sources and should prompt you to think and dream. Find a place without distractions such as a quiet table at a restaurant. Answer as many of the questions as possible, and discuss your responses with someone you trust.
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| Serving/pleasing God Being fit and healthy Having a nice home and belongings Leaving the world a better place Having fun Learning and improving myself Making others' lives easier or more pleasant Enjoying my family Others? (Add) | | |
Did any of these questions trigger some ideas about what you'd like to be doing with your life between now and 2015?
If so, keep thinking about the questions and your answers, and continue your personal research.
Source:
Creating or Revising Your Personal Vision (Tool #1).
WRITING A PERSONAL VISION STATEMENT
by Dr. Linda Phillips-Jones
Your personal vision is what you want to be, do, feel, think, own, associate with, and impact by some date in the future.
We recommend that you identify your Personal Vision as a development strategy. We're providing some tools to help you identify and implement your personal vision.
It's now time to pull together your research and write a Personal Vision Statement.
Your vision must be unique and appropriate for you, so we offer the following Personal Vision Statement only as an example:
- I am more physically fit, long finished with my formal education, actively involved in self-directed learning, having fun every day, and making money doing work that I love.
Notice in this sample that the person included several areas of life (physical, intellectual, social, spiritual, emotional, and career).
It's a picture of how the person sees themselves in the near future and is written in the present tense.
Use the following tool to synthesize what you've learned about yourself and to write your own statement.
| 1. Based on my personal research, these are the main things that motivate me/bring me joy and satisfaction: |
| 2. My greatest strengths/abilities/traits/things I do best: |
| 3. At least two things I can start doing/do more often that use my strengths and bring me joy: |
| 4. This is my Personal Vision Statement for myself (in 50 words or less): |
Talk about your findings and your Vision Statement with someone you trust.
If necessary, make a second, better draft, but don't compromise your passion.
Think big, and hold onto your excitement!
Now you're ready to turn your Vision Statement into an action plan.
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