You may think you know what a Vision is but first let me tell you what it isn’t:

• It is NOT a mission statement.
• It is NOT a goal.

Okay, I bet that’s got you scratching your head.

When you create a clear Vision in your mind, you can call it up with just a couple of key words that mean something specific to you.

My words are Freedom and Flexibility.

(Later, I’ll tell you how I came to those words and what they mean, and how hard it is to stay focused on those.)

We have a process to help you discover your Vision.

You may not know you have a Vision, but you do. It’s subconscious. We’re going to pull it out.

More about what your Vision is:

It’s a written or visual image of a future state of being.

That future state of being is your ultimate self represented by:

• Where you want to go
• What you want to do
• What you want to get from life

Your Core Values work set the stage for this inquiry.

When uncovering your Vision, you must engage the imagination and be open to all possibilities.

We have no judgement about your Vision.

A Vision must encompass ALL of you.

It will pull you out of your comfort zone while expanding who you are.

If you’re the kind of person who only deals in reality, get over it. There will be time for that, but…

A Vision is about possibilities.
It’s not supposed to be realistic or even something that you presently believe you could achieve.

Imagine a genie coming out of a bottle and offering you the most desired reality in a specific category in your life. That picture is your Vision.

• A Vision provides a target for your brain to use as a guidance system.
• Without a Vision, you don’t have direction.
• Without direction, no matter what you do, it may or may not be the right thing.
• You don’t have any way to determine if you’re headed in the right direction with a Vision.
• If you have a clear and powerful vision, everything changes.

You change the habits that get in the way of that vision.

In the next lesson, I’ll give you a worksheet and a video to help you understand how to create your Vision.

Once you receive that, you’ll need a partner. He or she has only one job and that is to ask you only one question:

“And then what?”