Funnelling Your Vision
At this point, you have created a vision and you have made it compelling - next you need to break down your vision into smaller steps.
The next steps are really quite simple... the question you need to ask yourself is, in order to achieve my vision by (year), what do I need to achieve within 1 year, 6 months etc - and apply the same process to each year, asking the same questions that you did with the vision.
Depending on how far in the future your goal is, you might need to add more interim steps - if it's a 10-year goal, you may want to add in 5 years, 3 years...
When you reach the 3 months and 1 month milestones, there is a subtle shift from a visionary process to a focus on specific actions - ask yourself what actions you need to take if you are going to achieve your 1 year goals. You also need to consider what sort of person you want to be and the habits you need to build in order to be the person who achieves that vision.
I'm not saying that if your long-term vision is to be financially free that you should start spending money that you don't have - but if you have a vision to have a website that attracts a million followers, you might want to invest in a professional training platform (hmm, I can't think of one of those right now, can you?!?!) that will help you to look professional and teach you what you need to know.
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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.
