When it comes to describing your vision, you need to look at what you want to eliminate from your life, what you want to add to it and what you want to leave unchanged. You need to identify what bothers you. It’s then about describing your future vision around these things. Keep what is good, remove what is bad and add what will make the vision one of real success and happiness for you.
True vision is not seen through the eyes of the body but through the eyes of the mind. That is why it is so important to engage your mind when setting out the vision. Regardless of where you are in life, you have the capacity to live a life with vision and imagine a different future. But to have any chance of living out the vision, it needs to excite your mind and touch your heart.
How many people have a clear idea of what living a life of success and happiness means to them? Does it mean having more money, a bigger car, more holidays, a better job and a nice partner? How many people have really taken the time to step back and ask themselves what true success and happiness mean to them in their life and work, and what it would be like to live a life of self-leadership in pursuit of their life’s vision?
If you never define your vision of success and happiness, then nothing is going to change and whatever is most urgent will always get done first. If you only do what is urgent at any given time, your life will not go forward in the way that you would have hoped. Living like this will not give you a successful, happy, fulfilling and productive life. If the most important things are not prioritised and done first, there is a real danger that everything will be treated as equal. Separate the urgent from the important and work on getting the important done.
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- What do success and happiness mean to you?
- What makes you happiest and when are you at your best?
- What gives you enjoyment and pleasure and a sense of purpose?
- How you do want to grow and develop as a person and what must be done to achieve this?
Asking yourself these questions will lead to the truth of what you are doing with your life and why. If you are brutally honest with yourself, the answers can often be about other people’s success and happiness. What it is they have (or very often what you think they have) and your desire to have the same. For a great many people, it has been defined by their parents, the education they have received, their work, their friends or the community in which they were brought up.
What makes your heart pump, but in a good way? What gives you that sense of excitement and adrenalin? When this happens, it can often give a good indication of what success and happiness mean to you.
Yet it is more than this. There is also a need to understand and recognise what you are passionate about and where your potential lies. People who build their lives around their passions using their full potential, generally live far happier and more successful lives.
Only you can define your vision of success and happiness. What do success and happiness mean to you?
Do hope you get to have a good summer as I am going to take a break for now and will be back with the next blog in September. Take good care of yourself and thanks for all the support.
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