Below is a picture of a Vision Funnel - this is a process I use with my clients either on a personal level or in their business to work on their vision.
The first part of the Vision Funnel focuses on defining your long-term vision. The process then breaks down your vision into smaller and smaller chunk goals until you come right back to today, with the knowledge that your daily actions and habits are actually leading you towards the achievement of your long-term vision. All too often, we have a dream but because we take no action, that is exactly what it remains - a dream! It only becomes a reality if you do something about it!
Perhaps your vision is to attain financial freedom. Your aim might be to pay off your mortgage and give up the J.O.B., it might be related to saving for your children's education or it might be to travel the world and being able to work from wherever you want. Whatever your vision is, you need to be able to imagine it in vivid detail - this is the part where you create your big WHY!
With that in mind, I would encourage you to ask yourself these questions.
Standing in the place of having succeeded (at achieving my vision)...
1.What things have I achieved & what is the impact on me and those around me? 2.What does success look like?3.What are people saying about this?
4.How am I now behaving?
5.What am I thinking?
6.What emotions do I feel?
Once you have gone through this process, you should have created a compelling vision with a really BIG WHY!
You are now ready for the next step - funnelling your 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.
