Aim high! Do you have a sense of where you want to go? Or do you draw a blank when you hear that question? If you cannot picture where you would like to be five years from now, do not stare hard to find it; relax and turn your focus inward. Find a quiet place, close your eyes, and concentrate on and visualize a part of your body you feel the most comfortable with.
Then, as you visualize yourself where you want to be, create a Vision Statement. Decide who you want to become in your life and what legacy you would like to leave behind. Do more than walk around with a vague vision in your mind. Be specific. Use your powers of vision to persuade your subconscious of its existence and inevitability.
Notice what thoughts and images float through your mind. Try to imagine a place where you feel happy and fulfilled, then describe to yourself that place and how you see yourself therein. If you have been leading a busy, task-oriented life with your focus on the short-term, it may take time for you to develop a vision statement. Be patient and have faith that it eventually will surface if you have the willingness to seek it. Forming a vision statement and deciding what you really care about means that you are the lead writer of your autobiography, and each day is a brilliant new chapter.
After careful thought and discussion, you need to reduce your inspiration for the future to a few crisp sentences, articulating your vision clearly so that your intent, purpose, plan, and preference are clear to you and all concerned.
Commitment to a concrete vision statement is contagious. It will help you to reach your highest goals, and others will believe in you as well.
Aim high! As you read your vision statement, you should feel yourself inspired and pulled upward where success awaits you because a positive vision encourages you with the understanding that the way things are is not the way that they have to be. Many find it helpful to attach a higher purpose to their vision, so that its achievement will serve them as well as a greater community or divine good.
Expect more from yourself and you will reap more. Aim high, stay true, and take ownership of what is possible.
Expect the best from yourself and others. When you demand a lot from yourself, those around you are likely to pick up their own pace. Self-respect and hard work engender another’s self-respect, to develop a mutual respect between you, and to foster dedication. Looking for the best in others will help them to believe in themselves and the importance of accomplishing their part of your shared vision. Take time to applaud their strides. Try to be specific as possible in your compliments so you are helping to reinforce their work in a constructive way. Most of all, assume the best is starting now!
There is no right or wrong vision statement. Each vision is as individual as its creator. Think about life’s possibilities as though they were beautiful, and its colorful fragments. As you look at them, use your vision, your opinion of perfection. Adjust the sight to the desired configuration. Likewise, your vision statement will bear your personal stamp, formed by your personality, beliefs, preferences, creativity, and life experiences. It is your willingness and ability to take from your life experience that wisdom which, notwithstanding people or things that would seek to deter you will lead you to a better tomorrow.
Aim high! Follow your vision. Consider a road that leads five hundred miles to your destination. Before you get on the road, you will probably look at road maps to guide your selection of the route. You might even break the trip down into segments, with planned rest stops along the way. You will probably build extra time into your scheduled arrival so that you have the luxury of taking any extra breaks if the journey becomes too hard.
At each stop, planned and otherwise, you can check your progress against your envisioned destination, see how it is going, and adjust your vision accordingly. This is the way you can enforce your vision statement.
Do you plan your day in the morning or the evening before? It is a good discipline to get into. As you map out your plan for the day, you might consider keeping your vision statement close at hand. After you have drafted out the day’s events, see how they measure up against your vision for the future. Find out if you can include at least one step, task, or project that will inch you closer to the achievement of your vision. You might even consider preplanning and scheduling some project steps across the days and weeks that lie ahead.
Aim high! Open your eyes and put these rules in play today. Craft your vision in your head. Work on your vision from your heart. Someday, you will truly learn to fly.
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