Guidelines For Developing Life Visions
An Excerpt From the Curriculum of Module 1 – “Opening Retreat Weekend”
For visualization to have power there must be a consistent well-defined overall outcome to focus on. This is why the drafting of a Vision is critical. Your guidelines are:
- Visions are usually stated as a single paragraph, and often members draft one vision for each of the six Life Categories: Career, Family, Wealth, Health, Social/Leisure, Spirituality/Meaning
- occasionally members combine more than one Life Category in a single Vision
- phrase the Vision in the present tense, using active verbs (just like Affirmations)
- phrase the Vision as the ideal outcome: an exciting movie of your future
- make the Vision truly inspiring
- draft the Vision with detail so it’s easy to create rich mental images of the experience/desired outcome
Visualizing allows the expectation and the inner belief that something will occur; thus creating your own self-fulfilling prophecy. Here are some guidelines for visualizing:
- read over your Vision at least once a week
- pick a relaxed time, when your mind can absorb the ideal outcome (the sort of mental stillness and freedom when you are daydreaming)
- as you read each paragraph, imagine the reality of it happening, how you will feel, what you will be seeing, who you will be with, and so forth
- and finally, as a truly fun experience, consider mentally creating your own set of “personal advisors.” People who you know and greatly admire and can give you advice and exciting things to consider in order to achieve your vision. Hold virtual meetings with these people in an inspiring location, and tell them what you’re planning your life to look like in 3 – 5 years, then listen to their conversation
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