Dear Friends,
As 2018 opens with all it’s potential, I have an important (and maybe confronting) question for you…
How was this past year for you … really? Comparing 2017 to what you wanted for yourself, and being completely honest with yourself,
- Were you less stressed?
- Did your health improve?
- Did you manage to spend more time with your loved family and friends?
- Did you have lots of moments where you realised you felt that work/life/friends/family/everything balance? And much fewer where you lost all those balls you are juggling?
- Were you more organised?
- Did you reach your financial goals?
- Did your career move as you wanted it to?
- Did you stay on track and achieve your other hopes and dreams? (travel, reducing debt, decluttering, reorganising, entertaining?
- Did you develop, grow and learn in ways that allowed your soul to shine?
The difference between a vision and a goal
Regardless of whether your focus is on your health, income, relationships, travel plans, career aspirations or personal development, goals help you get to where you’re going and monitor your progress along the way; they’re like roadmaps and signposts on your journey.
Your vision on the other hand, is your destination: the over-arching outcome that you’re intending to achieve. Your vision should therefore guide your goals, because to paraphrase the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland, ‘If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there – if you only walk long enough.’
Your goals speak to your head, but your vision calls to your heart
Goals speak to your rational mind. They lend themselves to spreadsheets, tracking tables and bar graphs and other things that are black and white, cut-and-dried, and either achieved or not. And more often than not they require you to exert lots of willpower, apply lots of self-discipline, and take a structured approach to their completion.
A vision, on the other hand, lends itself to butchers’ paper and crayons, symbols and pictures, layers and nuances. It whispers to your heart and soul, inspiring you to tap into your intuition and imagination in a way that’s creative, free flowing and makes you and your dream feel ALIVE.
Where goals encourage you to knuckle down and work hard, a vision makes your spirit soar, pulling you towards it in a way that feels light and uplifting.
Imagining the future when you don’t know what you want
It sounds nice in theory, but in practice, we’ve learned over the years that many people find it difficult to picture an ideal future that feels attainable for them. Often, they simply can’t figure out what they want.
This especially seems to happen at times when you’re primarily motivated by getting away from things that you don’t want in your life, and consequently can’t even imagine a time when you could have anything and everything you do want.
But when it comes to manifesting your dreams and taking action to bring them to life, setting an intention of moving towards a particular outcome is much more sustainable and motivating than putting your focus on moving away from those things you perceive as undesirable. We believe it’s vital to always put your emphasis on where you want to go, not where you’ve been.
One way to circumvent this issue is to allow your subconscious to show you what’s most important for you to focus on right now. And we know that life is too short to keep on repeating the same patterns that don’t serve you.
Help is Here!
So, if you would like help with this or any of those above bullet points, then do join us in constructing a visual representation for your year ahead. A vision board is a powerful reminder to keep you on track. It’s a powerful tool which you will find has a real feel to it. It will resonate across the months and remind you, should you fall off the wagon, to jump back on-board. It’s thrilling to develop a vision that feels ALIVE with possibility, power and purpose.
Spend four hours with some clarity meditations, encouraging ‘start now’ practices, finding what resonates with you and, like a butterfly you will emerge literally holding your vision for 2018.
It’s on Saturday, February 3rd. Not long to go now! Book Here
– Christina