Define Your Vision
What do you want your life to be? What do you want for your future? Do you know what you want? If you don’t know what you want, how can you get it? The way to get what you want from life is to define it.
Do you want wealth? Do you want to be further along in your career? Do you want a spouse and kids? Do you want to eat in luxurious restaurants around the world? It’s your vision; it’s up to you.
You need to have a vision, period. It can be a five-year plan, a ten-year plan, or lifetime plan, or any plan. It can change later. The important thing is that you need to have a plan.
Your Plan Needs a Vision to Focus It
Without a plan, you are in a river without a boat or paddle. Life is the river that doesn’t stop for you, no matter what’s going on in your life. You won’t know it’s path, and it’ll take you wherever it is going, whether you like it or not. You may get twists, turns, rocks, and waterfalls, and you won’t be ready for them.
A plan prepares you for your journey. A plan is your boat, paddle, engine, map, life jacket, and more. With a plan you know where you’re going to enter the river, where you’re going to go, and your journey’s end. The plan helps get you towards your goal, which is defined by your vision.
Your Vision Should Be Exciting
If your vision isn’t something you want, you aren’t going to go for it. It needs to be something that truly excites you. When you think of your vision, you need to really feel it in your heart and your gut. It needs to be meaningful enough to motivate you to get up, get going, and push you through obstacles (because you will face them, guaranteed).
If you choose to share your vision with others, it should excite them too. They are your support system. Your friends and family should be excited for the life you envisioned for yourself, and excited for you when you do achieve it.
Your Vision Should Be Specific
In fictional writing, the more you brainstorm the details of your characters and the world they live in, the more engaging it is to the audience. The more sensory details there are, the more realistic the setting and characters will be. This works similarly to your vision.
The more detailed your vision is, the more thought out it is. The details make it more realistic and viable for you. The more you can envision it, the more likely you will manifest it into reality. It’ll seem more like a nearing goal than a far-fetched fantasy.
Your Vision Should Be Flexible
Your vision may change, and that’s okay. As you go through life, you may adjust as necessary. Your interests may change based on your experiences. Your priorities may change. You may want to focus less on traveling around the world and focus more on monetary goals or vice versa.
It’s okay if your vision changes, as long as you have one. You need your vision to be your goal that guides what you do in your day to day actions.
I had a friend who started adulthood wanting to be a child psychologist. After traveling around the world and experiencing what different cultures had to offer, she changed her vision, and aspired to be a culinary chef. She eventually went to culinary school and became one. Now she is an entrepreneur and runs her own cookie business.
Like the adage says, “if you don’t have a plan, you plan to fail.” You need a defined vision to help you plan where you are going in life.
Roderick Conwi is the author of The Motivation Mindset: Train Your Brain To Get Up and Get Going and the Executive Editor at Nourishment Notes.
