The Importance of Creating a Personal Vision
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.” Elon Musk
My "day job" is as a Life Coach for Entrepreneurs to help them achieve both personal and business success! One of the first processes I do with my clients is to help them define their vision - either personal or business - and usually both. Why?
Knowing your vision helps you to create a picture of what you want. This makes you excited about future possibilities and helps to keep you motivated as well as focussed on your goals along the way!
As Elon Musk of Tesla states in his quote above, if it's important enough you will make it happen, even though things might get in the way!
As an example, many of us join WA excited and ready to build our website, monetise it, start making an online income - we set exciting goals and get ready for the money to roll in and for our lives to change for the better! So what happens when an unexpected bill arrives or you lose our job before you are ready to leave, or your website takes longer to make money than you had hoped or you get stuck down with an illness - and suddenly the momentum you had is lost - along with your motivation. So what helps you to stay on track when these things get in your way?
One of the other things that gets in the way, is how to go about achieving that vision. Sometimes, we feel like our dream is just too difficult, too big, too far in the future... you get the picture! We give up too early because we become overwhelmed with the task of achieving this amazing goal.
So the very next thing I work on with my client is how to break that vision down into smaller, manageable goals - this can help us to achieve things one small step at a time and make our goals feel that much easier to achieve!
So, the key to achieving our vision - have a massive WHY and break the vision down into smaller actions and habits that can help you to see how your goal can eventually be achieved...!
And the tool I use to do this is what I call a Vision Funnel!
UP NEXT: Your Vision Tunnel - Defining your Compelling Vision!
sami
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But the suggestion of taking the goals and breaking them into mini goals will work nicely for me. Thank you for this timely article.
So the example I gave of having financial freedom so you can be with your family. There is no point achieving that if you ignore your family along the way and end up divorced or if you don't look after your health and you can't travel to the places you wanted to due to ill health.
So make sure as you break it down you balance your goals out too - include time with your wife and grandkids in your vision/goals/actions. So your weekly actions might include some specific things you want to do with your wife. In your annual goals you might include taking your grandkids on a holiday...
I hope that helps!
Sarah.
