You have the provisions to pursue your vision
Dear Leader,
Do you have a vision that inspires you?
I used to struggle with creating visions. I used to believe that to have a vision was to distill every aspect of my boldest dreams into a concise, stand-alone, single statement...which felt really challenging to me. I no longer believe that.
A few years ago, I began utilizing a ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ to vision creation. This approach gave me ample space and permission to really visit my vision, witness it, and capture it as a snapshot in time, using all 5 of my senses.
Last year, I wrote out a 10-year vision for my life. Itโs several paragraphs long and reads like a journal entry that Future Me might write in 2034. Hereโs the final paragraph of my 10-year vision:
๐๐บ ๐ธ๐ข๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ป๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ, ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ, ๐ซ๐ฐ๐บ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ด. ๐ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ, ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ค๐ญ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฃ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐จ๐จ๐ญ๐ฆ. ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฑ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ. ๐ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ช๐ฅ๐จ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ธ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ญ๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ, ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ, ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ช๐ญ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ.
A vision is a picture of ๐๐ฃ ๐๐ฃ๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ช๐ฉ๐ช๐ง๐โa future we actively design and create by how we choose to live in the ๐ป๐ผ๐.
Having an inspired future fueled by intentional design helps to bring us out of our default state into a state of greater self-determination. From that envisioned place, we can make choices in the now that, over time, add up to bringing our desired future into existence.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ป๐น๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ณ๐๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ด๐ต ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ป๐ผ๐. All we have is nowโฆand nowโฆand now.
The whole point of having a vision is to inspire the present moment and our ways of being in, and navigating, the now.
๐ญ What if you are ๐ข๐ญ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐บ the person you aspire to be?
๐ญ What if youโre ๐ข๐ญ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐บ on the path toward your vision?
๐ญ What if you ๐ข๐ญ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐บ have the resources to reach it?
How might knowing those things with certainty shape your actions and beliefs?
This is your invitation to let your vision tell you its story so you can see how provisioned you already are.
