Creating Your Vision
By Peggy Brockman
In January we discussed the importance of knowing your purpose and how to write it. This month we will follow up with the next step in planning your year and your life….writing your Vision Statement.
Your Vision Statement will be the connector between your Purpose and your Goals and is a living breathing document. Your Vision Statement is a detailed description of you living in the full achievement and presence of your Purpose, in present tense (I AM/WE ARE).
Your Vision will include those things that you are aware of for you to fulfill your Purpose, the action steps, as well as the future achievements you EXPECT, your Goals.
Your Vision will change as your awareness expands, as your understanding expands. As your belief and self-image change or your business grows so will your Vision Statement.
I believe it is more important to spend time with your Vision than with your Goals. You will find that it will ultimately be your Vision that will drive your Goals and sharpen your clarity of your purpose.
The writing of your Vision should be fun and exciting with a feeling of hopeful expectation filling your soul. The Vision Statement will ultimately be the highest expression of your awareness at that time for your life’s highest good and Purpose.
“Always begin with the end in mind.” Stephen Covey
Ask yourself these brainstorming questions to help you define your Vision:
- What do you want your life and/or business to be/feel/look like?
- What type of friends/customers do you want to have?
- What type of relationships do you want to have?
- What type of home and/or office environment do you want?
- What do you want your home and office building to physically look like?
- What type of clients do you want?
- What type of habits to you want?
Knowledge without action is futile. So block out some time, take out your pen and start to write it down based on your areas of focus for your LIFE and answers to the above questions.
Based on the information you wrote above, now write your Vision Statement for your PERSONAL LIFE and then for your BUSINESSS LIFE. There may even be some of the same content in both.
Now that you have created a Vision Statement for both your personal and your business life – you are set to go!!
You can begin to set some goals based around your vision for both you and your business. When you set your goals make sure they are time sensitive and achievable.
Next month we will go deeper in to GOALS – How to set them, based on your Vision and Purpose.
**Peggy is the author of “10 Feet from the Edge: Stuck in the Comfort Zone” available on Amazon. Peggy is a John Maxwell Team motivational speaker, corporate trainer and life and business coach and an expert in Personality and Interaction Styles. She was selected as one of the 2015 Top 10 Business Women in America by the American Business Women’s Association. Her website – www.peggybrockman.com.
