There are 3 V's In
Personal Vision Statement

Living your personal vision statement is adventure. Creating it is not an end, it is about growth. It is a beginning; a journey for a brilliant life. In E-Myth Mastery author Michael Gerber wrote "Vision is a reason to live." Stephen Covey, First Things First, pens it "Vision is the fundamental force that drives everything else in our lives...Creating and integrating an empowering personal mission statement is one of the most important investments we can make."

In ancient days maps on sailing vessels would describe uncharted waters with the caption "Here be dragons". Although we may not believe in fire breathing dragons, fear still holds many back from stepping forward into the unfamiliar. The irony is that without vision there can be no real tomorrow. No real tomorrow, that is, other than the same old same old of yesterday. So what's real about that?

Rick Warren, in his book Purpose Driven Life, poses a question and then answers it. Question "What on earth am I here for?" Answer "We were made for a mission."

And so your journey begins. No dragons. Just you, a pen, a quiet location where you can listen to your inner thoughts, a journal or note book to capture those thoughts, and sincere ambition to move forward.

By the way, you likely won't complete your personal vision statement in one sitting. It is not expected that you should. To be effective, you'll need to ask yourself some tough questions and then listen for the answer. The only reality is your ethics. Can you be true to you? Integrity, as in all interactions in life, nurtures the foundation. You can't build a solid structure on a fault line. Not the earthquake type but the "It's not my fault" kind. A nugget of gold in a personal vision statement is that it is forward looking. Another is that regardless of who you are everyone starts with a clean sheet of paper. So let's begin - the 3 V's of a personal mission statement.

The 3 V's are Values, Vision, Validation. These three elements form the basis from which you will create your mission statement. You cannot have one without the other. And, you need to complete each element - Values, Vision, Validation - before you can write the mission statement.

If you are in business you could compare the preparation of your personal vision statement to that of preparing a business plan. Before you can write the executive summary you need first map out the organization through to the financing. The mission statement would be the executive summary.

Let's say you are a single parent. Before you can provide a statement of who you will be, what you will stand for, what you will not compromise on, what is really important to you and defines who you want to be, you need first to decide on what those things are.


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