Personal Vision

One of the key strategies that is always at hand is personal vision. Many of us are familiar with the vision of different organizations.  Do you know what your personal vision is? Have you ever written it down?  If you have, when was the last time you revisited your personal vision?

Personal vision is important because it is what allows us to truly engage in what we do. Our personal vision is a reflection of what we believe is meaningful and significant.  It is often linked to a higher purpose and calling. 

"Without vision, people perish..."

Now ask yourself, how does your dream fit into your personal vision? If you can't tie your dream that you are working towards into your personal vision, you are missing one of the key strategies to seeing your dream realized.  You are missing a key piece of your mosaic.  

It will take being fully engaged to walk into the dream that you have. Let's face it, if the dream you were working towards was easy to accomplish you would have walked into it by now. The fact that you haven't means that you need to approach it differently. 

If you haven't written down your personal vision before, it can be messy.  Don't worry about getting it perfect the first time.  You can come back to it again.  In fact you should revisit it regularly, at least once a year.  

One thing I have found that helped me was to focus on ideas or key words that resonated with me. After a while I found that I kept coming back to the same words and phrases, then it was just a matter of putting them together.  

Here is my current personal vision: Bringing people together to do something great. 

There are things that fit into my vision that are worth investing in - like learning to play music together with my kids. In my family I have a budding song writer, who also plays guitar and sings, a vocalist, a keyboard player and a drummer.  I play the bass guitar. You can see how that fits - even if the music sounds less than great at first.

There are also things that I am attracted to that do not fit into my vision - like inventing a new way of converting waste into energy using sunlight. These do not fit with my vision and I have had people who know me say as much. However, it might work if I pull people together rather than focusing on being the independent inventor - that is the beauty of working within your personal vision.

So now would be the time to start letting your personal vision emerge.  Or revisiting what you have already expressed to see if there are some changes you need to make.  Let me know how it goes...