Building The Vision

Recently in life I had some time to question and focus on my life and my goals. Spending time reflecting on my desires, reading some business books that where all about "having a vision". Using that drive I spent some time thinking about my own, personal vision.

My problem was that I have always been really bad things like this. Most times I was focused so much on my family and the well being of others I spent little to no time actually focusing on myself. I never really knew what I should do with my life, but this one day It finally clicked, it suddenly was so clear to me…

Clearer than it ever was….

And I understood, that I have had problems expressing what my vision for life truly was. My goals never were something like: "i want to reach this and that, I want to have alot of money and shoes, and this car, and that house, etc", but much more in a general direction of life. Thoughts that i wanted to explore, values that i wanted to uphold, directions i wanted to reach out.

But getting clear on that, my vision becomes very uncomplicated. I found out that I have a very clear goal for what I wanted my next year to look like…. and that my values have always been there. I just did not consciously know them and couldn’t verbally say them….

So I started writing them down….

I started to become more aware of myself… I began to become more aware of what I wanted mentally, spiritually, and physically. I began to trust God more than my intuition to guide me spontaneously in the right direction. I understand that only by taking steps, can I actually get to the destination I desire. So I then decided that I had to accept and embrace challenges as opportunities to grow and see mistakes, and even failures and errors as a part of the learning process….

But Now We Are Ready!….

We are on fire....we know our goal, we know why it's important to us, so we will achieve it. That's what I thought. I put a picture of it on my vision board, I told my friends about it and I wrote it in my journal. It looked and sounded great when I verbalized my wishes. Therein lied the problem, I talked about it but did not put a plan of action in place. Yes, we are to write our vision, but we must also study and equip ourselves to move from thought to action. I struggled with my weight and I struggled with my ability to complete my bachelor degree. These two items were the missing puzzle pieces to making me the most confident person ever! Let's take education first….

Was I ready to go back and face my failure…

Clearly I was crazy... I was a wife, mother, worked full time, our kids were into sports. My job was demanding, I was not sure I had the time or if I wanted to make the time. I’m too old was another one, but the best one was, I was not smart enough to do it the first time, what makes you think you will do it this time.... It was time to confront those demons. It was time to get SMART...

Drop me a line to let me know how the goal formation is going....