Episode 28 - Choosing a Powerful Vision for Change
It's said that a vision comes before any creation.
Holding a positive vision of the future has never been so important.
Why is vision so important?
What difference would it make if you had a clear and detailed vision for each area of your life?
How do you create a vision anyway?
These questions and more are answered in today's episode of the Choosing Happy Podcast.
Topics include:
- The vital importance of having a vision?
- What impact having a clear vision can have.
- Creating a vision of your future
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Transcript
It could be sad that everything begins with a vision.
Speaker:Uh, seed.
Speaker:Of insight.
Speaker:Something that we want hope for or aspire to.
Speaker:Comes to us as efficient.
Speaker:We either get a picture.
Speaker:Or a sense of how it will be, what it will look and feel like
Speaker:to manifest it into reality.
Speaker:What we do is division.
Speaker:Determines our future.
Speaker:Do we embrace it and follow through by paying attention to our
Speaker:Intuition.
Speaker:And intaking inspired knowing action.
Speaker:Or do we immediately list all of the reasons we can't do it?
Speaker:It can't happen.
Speaker:It's not possible.
Speaker:Most often we are our own dream killers
Speaker:Consciously.
Speaker:unconsciously.
Speaker:We put out the spark before it gets a chance to take hold and flaming to life.
Speaker:How do you create a vision that's meaningful, compelling, and rich enough?
Speaker:To get you out of
Speaker:But each.
Speaker:each.
Speaker:day
Speaker:that's what I'm.
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Speaker:I am Heather masters, and this is the choosing happy podcast.
Speaker:Hello and welcome to the choosing.
Speaker:Happy podcast at this time of year, many of us are getting ready to set.
Speaker:Goals and resolutions for the new year.
Speaker:We're looking to change our lives.
Speaker:Make commitments
Speaker:we're getting ready.
Speaker:To smash those goals.
Speaker:To hit the gym to give.
Speaker:Give up our call . To do dry January and many, many more.
Speaker:But how much time do we take?
Speaker:To really commit to setting those goals and how much time.
Speaker:Do we take to visualizing the results and visualizing how we want.
Speaker:Our lives to be.
Speaker:Before we set goals.
Speaker:We should really spend time going deep on visualizing what we want for our
Speaker:lives, what we want for our families, for our careers, for our relationships.
Speaker:For our finances.
Speaker:Because it only wants we have a vision.
Speaker:Can we really deep into our goals and understand the why behind them.
Speaker:Once we have a why on our goals, we're more motivated.
Speaker:We have meaning.
Speaker:And if we have a vision of them being complete, We know what we're
Speaker:working towards or you know, how we're going to feel we've already
Speaker:assessed what the impact will be.
Speaker:We already have decided that that's what we want.
Speaker:I do fear that we've all got a bit complacent and familiar.
Speaker:I was.
Speaker:Going through the motions of setting goals, especially this time of year.
Speaker:The go.
Speaker:No longer has an emotional pole.
Speaker:We've decided even before we begin.
Speaker:That will fail.
Speaker:And given.
Speaker:It's absolutely fine to fail.
Speaker:On the way to.
Speaker:Your goal.
Speaker:As long as you're willing to.
Speaker:To learn from it and get up and continue.
Speaker:High performers and highly successful people really get
Speaker:detailed on their visions.
Speaker:Visions are just so impulse.
Speaker:Portant.
Speaker:Create visions of how they want their lives to be in all areas of their life.
Speaker:Uh, collective.
Speaker:Can have immense power and can create a collective shift
Speaker:in the world and in humanity.
Speaker:For instance, a great leader who shares the vision.
Speaker:The others commit to, can bring about massive change.
Speaker:For example, Martin Luther.
Speaker:The king or Nelson Mandela.
Speaker:All manifesting begins with a vision.
Speaker:The vision is the why?
Speaker:For most of us, the meaning behind those.
Speaker:Miraculous things that we do.
Speaker:When we go beyond the boundaries of our comfort zone, it's because
Speaker:we have a vision that we can.
Speaker:Entrepreneurs and business people hold visions of how they wants their
Speaker:businesses to grow of what they can achieve and what they can create.
Speaker:And they use those visions to empower and encourage.
Speaker:And inspire staff.
Speaker:To follow.
Speaker:Vision is the why for extra.
Speaker:Extraordinary people.
Speaker:Who continue against the arts, because they've already seen it done.
Speaker:They've seen it complete.
Speaker:They know they can do it irrespective of all of the opposition.
Speaker:Vision is intrinsically tied to identity.
Speaker:If you have a vision of.
Speaker:Being a fit person.
Speaker:You live into that.
Speaker:If you have a vision of being a writer.
Speaker:Of feeling.
Speaker:What it is to write every day and to have a book published.
Speaker:You'll commit and live into that.
Speaker:Fishing trumps everything.
Speaker:How precise are you being with your vision for your life, for your career?
Speaker:For your relationships.
Speaker:For your kids for your health.
Speaker:For your business.
Speaker:How specific.
Speaker:Is.
Speaker:Is your vision for your career?
Speaker:What type of.
Speaker:Area.
Speaker:Do you want to work in, what do you want to create?
Speaker:What legacy do you want to leave behind?
Speaker:Was that a vision we can get comfortable.
Speaker:We can stay stuck.
Speaker:Uh, vision challenges.
Speaker:Reach for more.
Speaker:What's the vision for your relationship with your spouse.
Speaker:Do you know how you want to feel when you're around them?
Speaker:What's that vision for your kids?
Speaker:What legacy do you want to leave?
Speaker:How would you like them to remember you?
Speaker:How would you like them to grow?
Speaker:What opportunities and perspective on life would you like them to have.
Speaker:What's your vision for your physical health?
Speaker:What's your vision for your mental health?
Speaker:What's your vision for your social life or your travel for your experiences?
Speaker:What outcomes do you want?
Speaker:How specific are you guessing?
Speaker:Visualizing, you can do something.
Speaker:Which is achievable, has been proven to increase performance.
Speaker:I watched a national geographic program recently on vacation, about
Speaker:a young boy who had a brain tumor and had been given 10 days to live.
Speaker:And the doctors had sent him home to die.
Speaker:He refused to accept less than you visualized as immune system
Speaker:as a scene out of star wars movie.
Speaker:Where the good cells.
Speaker:With small ships attacking the one large enemy ship, the tumor.
Speaker:I was in a week, the tumor.
Speaker:Tumor had drastically reduced in size.
Speaker:And then about a month they had completely gone.
Speaker:Vision, coupled with belief can be powerful.
Speaker:Uh, vision provides us with the bigger picture, the overall goal.
Speaker:Where we want to be in a.
Speaker:A life and in our business.
Speaker:It drives and motivates us if the vision's clear and achievable, it'll provide
Speaker:clarity, not just for ourselves, but for.
Speaker:Uh, businesses.
Speaker:Uh, our family.
Speaker:Uh, clients and customers.
Speaker:For a business.
Speaker:Getting employees to buy into your vision.
Speaker:And for them to clearly understand their part and its achievement is a
Speaker:key to success and we'll often see them performing beyond expectations.
Speaker:Uh, long-term objective for an organization.
Speaker:But also for India.
Speaker:Individual and their life.
Speaker:So when you wake up on a rainy gray day at 4:00 AM, and you know, you have a long
Speaker:flight and a meeting, you don't want.
Speaker:To attend.
Speaker:Kids are complaining and the dog is ill and the car won't start.
Speaker:And you ask yourself, what am I doing this for?
Speaker:Your vision is the why?
Speaker:It's where your motivation comes from.
Speaker:From the anticipation of how you feel when you've achieved your vision, but.
Speaker:Also knowing that it has greater meaning.
Speaker:And just for yourself.
Speaker:We can produce an bending self-belief and determination.
Speaker:It can motivate your everyday.
Speaker:It can be powerful.
Speaker:Powerful and passionate.
Speaker:For a vision to work.
Speaker:For you and with you, a vision needs to be aligned with who you are.
Speaker:With your authentic self for it to be truly impactful.
Speaker:Are your values, beliefs, and what you stand for.
Speaker:Congruent to your vision for your business and for your life.
Speaker:If not.
Speaker:Then you will find the achiever.
Speaker:of your vision difficult and may struggle to make it work.
Speaker:So, how do you come up with vision?
Speaker:There are a number of ways to generate a vision.
Speaker:There's.
Speaker:What do I want process where you enlist the help of a friend?
Speaker:Or a coach.
Speaker:Who asks you?
Speaker:What.
Speaker:You want you write your immediate response down, they
Speaker:ask again, what do you want?
Speaker:And they ask again and again.
Speaker:Uh, until he can't come up with any more answers.
Speaker:The idea is to keep going, even when you're struggling for ideas, because
Speaker:often those last few things that come.
Speaker:Up or the call to what you really want in your vision.
Speaker:They come from your unconscious, from the deepest part of you.
Speaker:When you go through the list and filter out, what's important to you in your
Speaker:picture of success and achievement.
Speaker:Unless the message is.
Speaker:To begin with the end nine.
Speaker:Uh, Steve Covey tells us in his book, the seven habits.
Speaker:Of highly effective people.
Speaker:I think of your own eulogy.
Speaker:What would you have liked to have achieved for your business and for
Speaker:your life and for the people around you and for the relationships?
Speaker:What are the key things you want to be remembered for?
Speaker:What difference did you make?
Speaker:What impact?
Speaker:What meaning did you bring to the world?
Speaker:How many people did you help?
Speaker:Another method is to ask yourself, what would you do or achieve.
Speaker:If he couldn't fail.
Speaker:If you had one wish.
Speaker:What would that be?
Speaker:If there was only one thing you could do with your life.
Speaker:What would you do?
Speaker:What is the thing you would continue to do?
Speaker:If money didn't matter.
Speaker:Once you've a strong idea for your vision.
Speaker:Then you're ready for the next step.
Speaker:The next step is to write your vision down.
Speaker:Write it for now, the near and far.
Speaker:So write it for this moment in time.
Speaker:Maybe the next month, then take it six months out and then take a year out and
Speaker:maybe three to five years and use all of your senses to describe your visions,
Speaker:make it vivid and as real as possible.
Speaker:Write it in the present tense.
Speaker:As if you've already achieved it.
Speaker:And again, make it very specific.
Speaker:I think about all angles, whether you're doing the vision for your career.
Speaker:What will your career mean to you?
Speaker:If you're doing it from relation.
Speaker:how will your relationship be?
Speaker:How will you be interacting?
Speaker:What will you be expecting?
Speaker:What will they be expecting?
Speaker:Keep it positive and keep it personal.
Speaker:This is yours.
Speaker:Describe the colors, the sounds, the smells or tastes, how you
Speaker:feel, what you'll be doing.
Speaker:And how
Speaker:Well, you know, you've achieved.
Speaker:And Your vision.
Speaker:Make it real, make it compelling.
Speaker:Make it tangible and make it yours.
Speaker:And then test your vision.
Speaker:Is it realistic and achievable?
Speaker:Only in, you know, if this is true.
Speaker:Often what others see.
Speaker:Unrealistic.
Speaker:We have it within us to achieve.
Speaker:So for example, the three minute mile.
Speaker:It was said to be physically impossible for a human to run a three minute mile.
Speaker:But once it was done, many people followed.
Speaker:for your business vision and for your life.
Speaker:They should
Speaker:check that your goals and your vision.
Speaker:Much your business reality.
Speaker:So for instance, if you're dreaming of starting a spa, who are the
Speaker:customers that you're going to serve?
Speaker:And are those the customers you're serving now?
Speaker:What are the problems you're solving for them?
Speaker:Do you have experience in solving that now?
Speaker:What industry are you in?
Speaker:Are you in that industry?
Speaker:Industry now.
Speaker:These aren't barriers to your vision.
Speaker:It's identifying the steps.
Speaker:That will be needed.
Speaker:In order to achieve.
Speaker:It.
Speaker:What are the barriers to entry?
Speaker:What are the benefits you bring?
Speaker:What are your unique selling points?
Speaker:Your differentiator.
Speaker:Your gifts, your talents.
Speaker:How will you sell, how much will customers pay?
Speaker:How much.
Speaker:Will it cost to produce your.
Speaker:Product or service, do you know?
Speaker:How you will achieve it.
Speaker:And right at this moment.
Speaker:It probably doesn't matter for your longterm vision
Speaker:that you have these answers.
Speaker:Answers.
Speaker:But it will help in terms of finding.
Speaker:Finding out the first steps you need to take.
Speaker:And moving towards your vision.
Speaker:And identify the quick wins and the low hanging fruit.
Speaker:What are the things he can do?
Speaker:To start moving at that direction.
Speaker:And are you willing to make this vision a reality?
Speaker:Are you willing to put your social life to one side, if it's needed.
Speaker:Are you willing?
Speaker:Willing to.
Speaker:Change your lifestyle if required.
Speaker:And what are your motivators?
Speaker:When you look at that vision.
Speaker:What is the motivation behind achieving it?
Speaker:Is it.
Speaker:Vision.
Speaker:That's serving a service greater than you.
Speaker:Or is it something that is purely for you?
Speaker:And it's self motivated.
Speaker:Are you flexible?
Speaker:Can you ride the waves of change, especially at the moment.
Speaker:Can you be resilient?
Speaker:Can you.
Speaker:Overcome all of the obstacles that may come your way, especially
Speaker:in chaos, we're living through.
Speaker:And the extraordinary times.
Speaker:Can you keep.
Speaker:Your eye on the goal.
Speaker:Are you contributing to a new tomorrow?
Speaker:To a great purpose.
Speaker:Or all you.
Speaker:Contributing to your family.
Speaker:To your friends, to yourself.
Speaker:Are you creating a legacy for your children?
Speaker:Identify all of this be.
Speaker:Be honest with yourself.
Speaker:From your vision, you can derive your strategy and goals for
Speaker:your business and your life.
Speaker:The vision is the main deal.
Speaker:It's the driver.
Speaker:It's your, why?
Speaker:It's the overarching reason.
Speaker:For your passion, your purpose.
Speaker:You're meaning.
Speaker:In life and business.
Speaker:And often for your business's existence.
Speaker:The strategy is the overall plan on how you'll achieve your vision.
Speaker:It's dynamic and can be visited.
Speaker:Should.
Speaker:Should be revisited.
Speaker:It's a living documents.
Speaker:Everything is changing.
Speaker:Your vision may be way out in the future and all you need to know to begin.
Speaker:The first few.
Speaker:Two steps.
Speaker:The goals or the milestones within the plan.
Speaker:It's what you need to do.
Speaker:So what are the first couple of goals that you could achieve that movie?
Speaker:Toward your greater vision.
Speaker:They may even be small goals just to get you started.
Speaker:To begin the momentum.
Speaker:To keep the vision.
Speaker:fresh and alive.
Speaker:Once you've written it out.
Speaker:Keep it close.
Speaker:Read every morning.
Speaker:Visualize every morning, breathe life into it, experience it every morning.
Speaker:Keep it front of mind.
Speaker:So that inspires you.
Speaker:It keeps.
Speaker:You going.
Speaker:Through all of the obstacles and the challenges ahead.
Speaker:There's so much more I could go into on vision.
Speaker:And on how to create it.
Speaker:But for now.
Speaker:I hope this has really given you a taste.
Speaker:Of how important vision is especially, and the times that we're facing.
Speaker:To be able to create a vision of a way forward for yourself and your family.
Speaker:Family and these extraordinary times.
Speaker:Thank you so much for listening.
Speaker:If you found this episode valuable, I'd be grateful if you could
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Speaker:And even if you could write a review.
Speaker:Every little helps.
Speaker:It's me continue with this.
Speaker:This podcast.
Speaker:. I wish you all the best.
Speaker:And I look forward to seeing you on the next episode of
