Visioning

My last post was about getting clear on my core values. I can't tell you what an impact that has already had on helping me feel more grounded and confident about who I am and where I'm going!

Step two of my goal-setting process was to write my personal vision, because if you don't know where you're going in the big-picture, you can't really set up goals to help you succeed. In the Velocity session I attended, they encouraged us to write a Painted Picture vision - a very detailed and specific vision about what our lives would look like in the year 2013.

I started to do that, but realized what I was writing felt contrived and awkward. I wasn't in the right state of mind. I was stuck in my head! So instead, I started to focus on how I wanted to FEEL as I move toward my vision for my life. I tapped into the feelings I was having in my heart and gut, and I wrote down a whole list of words to describe those feelings and then made them into a word cloud. (I did this on my own in PowerPoint, but you can have a computer do it for you if you visit Wordle.)

I also made a visual of my personal mantra, something I came up with several years ago during coaching training. It really kind of zips up my core values and vision into a neat little package.  

I will get around to writing my vision down. I just needed to do this work first. And I figured putting it out in the world like this (to all my 8 readers - Ha....but it's true) might just help me make it real.

Thanks (all 8 of you) for supporting me with your eyes!