Good day, Purposeful Hearts, and welcome to the final installment of our vision-creation series! You made it! I hope your thought life has been full of deep reflection, authenticity, and a whole lot of creative dreaming!
It’s finally time to pull together your personal passions, your values, your wellness goals, and your gut-level thoughts on redeeming the time you have in this fleeting life. My job for today is to set you up for a successful writing experience and get out of the way so you can fly!
Here’s the process: begin by creating a new document in which you write out your three passion activities from week one, your five value words from week two, your six wellness goals from week three, and your responses to the two deep life questions from last week. Yes, I’d like you to write or type them out again. You need to see your hands at work and see the words unfold before you in order to get in the right headspace for crafting your final vision statement. Ready, set, go!
Now, my friend, it’s your time to shine. With all of those passions, values, and words before you, I’m setting you free to write your personal vision statement. Very often the worksheets or templates designed to help people write their vision statements will call it a “Permanent Vision Statement”, but this language can be paralyzing to some people because of the word permanent. Your vision statement should be fairly stable and build accountability into your life, but it’s there to serve you, not hold you hostage. Give yourself some grace and allow yourself to tweak your vision statement every now and then to truly reflect your purpose and goals.
Ideally, your vision statement will be two to three sentences long, but the exact length is up to you. It needs to fully capture the work you’ve done over the last few weeks; it needs to fully capture you! You’ll find recommended lengths from 15 words to 150 words, but the point is that it’s a true reflection of where you’d like your life to move. As you write, try to use the first-person perspective, and write in the present tense, as though you’re accomplishing each aspect of your personal vision statement right now. This tone serves as a call to action and builds personal accountability. I love revisiting my own vision statement as a means of staying motivated and adding momentum to my dreams!
Now that you’re in the right headspace for writing, go for it! I’d love to hear about your results from this vision process; feel free to share in the comments below! Until next time, share your heart and live your purpose!
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