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?

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• 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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It could be sad that everything begins with a vision.

Uh, seed.

Of insight.

Something that we want hope for or aspire to.

Comes to us as efficient.

We either get a picture.

Or a sense of how it will be, what it will look and feel like

to manifest it into reality.

What we do is division.

Determines our future.

Do we embrace it and follow through by paying attention to our

Intuition.

And intaking inspired knowing action.

Or do we immediately list all of the reasons we can't do it?

It can't happen.

It's not possible.

Most often we are our own dream killers

Consciously.

unconsciously.

We put out the spark before it gets a chance to take hold and flaming to life.

How do you create a vision that's meaningful, compelling, and rich enough?

To get you out of

But each.

each.

day

that's what I'm.

Covering today.

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I am Heather masters, and this is the choosing happy podcast.

Hello and welcome to the choosing.

Happy podcast at this time of year, many of us are getting ready to set.

Goals and resolutions for the new year.

We're looking to change our lives.

Make commitments

we're getting ready.

To smash those goals.

To hit the gym to give.

Give up our call . To do dry January and many, many more.

But how much time do we take?

To really commit to setting those goals and how much time.

Do we take to visualizing the results and visualizing how we want.

Our lives to be.

Before we set goals.

We should really spend time going deep on visualizing what we want for our

lives, what we want for our families, for our careers, for our relationships.

For our finances.

Because it only wants we have a vision.

Can we really deep into our goals and understand the why behind them.

Once we have a why on our goals, we're more motivated.

We have meaning.

And if we have a vision of them being complete, We know what we're

working towards or you know, how we're going to feel we've already

assessed what the impact will be.

We already have decided that that's what we want.

I do fear that we've all got a bit complacent and familiar.

I was.

Going through the motions of setting goals, especially this time of year.

The go.

No longer has an emotional pole.

We've decided even before we begin.

That will fail.

And given.

It's absolutely fine to fail.

On the way to.

Your goal.

As long as you're willing to.

To learn from it and get up and continue.

High performers and highly successful people really get

detailed on their visions.

Visions are just so impulse.

Portant.

Create visions of how they want their lives to be in all areas of their life.

Uh, collective.

Can have immense power and can create a collective shift

in the world and in humanity.

For instance, a great leader who shares the vision.

The others commit to, can bring about massive change.

For example, Martin Luther.

The king or Nelson Mandela.

All manifesting begins with a vision.

The vision is the why?

For most of us, the meaning behind those.

Miraculous things that we do.

When we go beyond the boundaries of our comfort zone, it's because

we have a vision that we can.

Entrepreneurs and business people hold visions of how they wants their

businesses to grow of what they can achieve and what they can create.

And they use those visions to empower and encourage.

And inspire staff.

To follow.

Vision is the why for extra.

Extraordinary people.

Who continue against the arts, because they've already seen it done.

They've seen it complete.

They know they can do it irrespective of all of the opposition.

Vision is intrinsically tied to identity.

If you have a vision of.

Being a fit person.

You live into that.

If you have a vision of being a writer.

Of feeling.

What it is to write every day and to have a book published.

You'll commit and live into that.

Fishing trumps everything.

How precise are you being with your vision for your life, for your career?

For your relationships.

For your kids for your health.

For your business.

How specific.

Is.

Is your vision for your career?

What type of.

Area.

Do you want to work in, what do you want to create?

What legacy do you want to leave behind?

Was that a vision we can get comfortable.

We can stay stuck.

Uh, vision challenges.

Reach for more.

What's the vision for your relationship with your spouse.

Do you know how you want to feel when you're around them?

What's that vision for your kids?

What legacy do you want to leave?

How would you like them to remember you?

How would you like them to grow?

What opportunities and perspective on life would you like them to have.

What's your vision for your physical health?

What's your vision for your mental health?

What's your vision for your social life or your travel for your experiences?

What outcomes do you want?

How specific are you guessing?

Visualizing, you can do something.

Which is achievable, has been proven to increase performance.

I watched a national geographic program recently on vacation, about

a young boy who had a brain tumor and had been given 10 days to live.

And the doctors had sent him home to die.

He refused to accept less than you visualized as immune system

as a scene out of star wars movie.

Where the good cells.

With small ships attacking the one large enemy ship, the tumor.

I was in a week, the tumor.

Tumor had drastically reduced in size.

And then about a month they had completely gone.

Vision, coupled with belief can be powerful.

Uh, vision provides us with the bigger picture, the overall goal.

Where we want to be in a.

A life and in our business.

It drives and motivates us if the vision's clear and achievable, it'll provide

clarity, not just for ourselves, but for.

Uh, businesses.

Uh, our family.

Uh, clients and customers.

For a business.

Getting employees to buy into your vision.

And for them to clearly understand their part and its achievement is a

key to success and we'll often see them performing beyond expectations.

Uh, long-term objective for an organization.

But also for India.

Individual and their life.

So when you wake up on a rainy gray day at 4:00 AM, and you know, you have a long

flight and a meeting, you don't want.

To attend.

Kids are complaining and the dog is ill and the car won't start.

And you ask yourself, what am I doing this for?

Your vision is the why?

It's where your motivation comes from.

From the anticipation of how you feel when you've achieved your vision, but.

Also knowing that it has greater meaning.

And just for yourself.

We can produce an bending self-belief and determination.

It can motivate your everyday.

It can be powerful.

Powerful and passionate.

For a vision to work.

For you and with you, a vision needs to be aligned with who you are.

With your authentic self for it to be truly impactful.

Are your values, beliefs, and what you stand for.

Congruent to your vision for your business and for your life.

If not.

Then you will find the achiever.

of your vision difficult and may struggle to make it work.

So, how do you come up with vision?

There are a number of ways to generate a vision.

There's.

What do I want process where you enlist the help of a friend?

Or a coach.

Who asks you?

What.

You want you write your immediate response down, they

ask again, what do you want?

And they ask again and again.

Uh, until he can't come up with any more answers.

The idea is to keep going, even when you're struggling for ideas, because

often those last few things that come.

Up or the call to what you really want in your vision.

They come from your unconscious, from the deepest part of you.

When you go through the list and filter out, what's important to you in your

picture of success and achievement.

Unless the message is.

To begin with the end nine.

Uh, Steve Covey tells us in his book, the seven habits.

Of highly effective people.

I think of your own eulogy.

What would you have liked to have achieved for your business and for

your life and for the people around you and for the relationships?

What are the key things you want to be remembered for?

What difference did you make?

What impact?

What meaning did you bring to the world?

How many people did you help?

Another method is to ask yourself, what would you do or achieve.

If he couldn't fail.

If you had one wish.

What would that be?

If there was only one thing you could do with your life.

What would you do?

What is the thing you would continue to do?

If money didn't matter.

Once you've a strong idea for your vision.

Then you're ready for the next step.

The next step is to write your vision down.

Write it for now, the near and far.

So write it for this moment in time.

Maybe the next month, then take it six months out and then take a year out and

maybe three to five years and use all of your senses to describe your visions,

make it vivid and as real as possible.

Write it in the present tense.

As if you've already achieved it.

And again, make it very specific.

I think about all angles, whether you're doing the vision for your career.

What will your career mean to you?

If you're doing it from relation.

how will your relationship be?

How will you be interacting?

What will you be expecting?

What will they be expecting?

Keep it positive and keep it personal.

This is yours.

Describe the colors, the sounds, the smells or tastes, how you

feel, what you'll be doing.

And how

Well, you know, you've achieved.

And Your vision.

Make it real, make it compelling.

Make it tangible and make it yours.

And then test your vision.

Is it realistic and achievable?

Only in, you know, if this is true.

Often what others see.

Unrealistic.

We have it within us to achieve.

So for example, the three minute mile.

It was said to be physically impossible for a human to run a three minute mile.

But once it was done, many people followed.

for your business vision and for your life.

They should

check that your goals and your vision.

Much your business reality.

So for instance, if you're dreaming of starting a spa, who are the

customers that you're going to serve?

And are those the customers you're serving now?

What are the problems you're solving for them?

Do you have experience in solving that now?

What industry are you in?

Are you in that industry?

Industry now.

These aren't barriers to your vision.

It's identifying the steps.

That will be needed.

In order to achieve.

It.

What are the barriers to entry?

What are the benefits you bring?

What are your unique selling points?

Your differentiator.

Your gifts, your talents.

How will you sell, how much will customers pay?

How much.

Will it cost to produce your.

Product or service, do you know?

How you will achieve it.

And right at this moment.

It probably doesn't matter for your longterm vision

that you have these answers.

Answers.

But it will help in terms of finding.

Finding out the first steps you need to take.

And moving towards your vision.

And identify the quick wins and the low hanging fruit.

What are the things he can do?

To start moving at that direction.

And are you willing to make this vision a reality?

Are you willing to put your social life to one side, if it's needed.

Are you willing?

Willing to.

Change your lifestyle if required.

And what are your motivators?

When you look at that vision.

What is the motivation behind achieving it?

Is it.

Vision.

That's serving a service greater than you.

Or is it something that is purely for you?

And it's self motivated.

Are you flexible?

Can you ride the waves of change, especially at the moment.

Can you be resilient?

Can you.

Overcome all of the obstacles that may come your way, especially

in chaos, we're living through.

And the extraordinary times.

Can you keep.

Your eye on the goal.

Are you contributing to a new tomorrow?

To a great purpose.

Or all you.

Contributing to your family.

To your friends, to yourself.

Are you creating a legacy for your children?

Identify all of this be.

Be honest with yourself.

From your vision, you can derive your strategy and goals for

your business and your life.

The vision is the main deal.

It's the driver.

It's your, why?

It's the overarching reason.

For your passion, your purpose.

You're meaning.

In life and business.

And often for your business's existence.

The strategy is the overall plan on how you'll achieve your vision.

It's dynamic and can be visited.

Should.

Should be revisited.

It's a living documents.

Everything is changing.

Your vision may be way out in the future and all you need to know to begin.

The first few.

Two steps.

The goals or the milestones within the plan.

It's what you need to do.

So what are the first couple of goals that you could achieve that movie?

Toward your greater vision.

They may even be small goals just to get you started.

To begin the momentum.

To keep the vision.

fresh and alive.

Once you've written it out.

Keep it close.

Read every morning.

Visualize every morning, breathe life into it, experience it every morning.

Keep it front of mind.

So that inspires you.

It keeps.

You going.

Through all of the obstacles and the challenges ahead.

There's so much more I could go into on vision.

And on how to create it.

But for now.

I hope this has really given you a taste.

Of how important vision is especially, and the times that we're facing.

To be able to create a vision of a way forward for yourself and your family.

Family and these extraordinary times.

Thank you so much for listening.

If you found this episode valuable, I'd be grateful if you could

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Every little helps.

It's me continue with this.

This podcast.

. I wish you all the best.

And I look forward to seeing you on the next episode of