How to build a big vision for your career in 2023

Today, I’m going to show you how to build a big vision for 2023.

It doesn’t involve Goals, Rocks, OKRs, or Milestones.

It only takes an hour of your time.

If you do this you will create a vision so vivid that you begin to attract the cooperative components. People will show up in your life a the right time to help you. And parts of the vision will materialize without effort over the coming months.

Unfortunately when trying to manifest a vision most people either labor over short term goals or spend hours cutting pictures from magazines and stick them on a Vision Board that fails to become a reality.

Why?

No emotion.

A Big Vivid Vision Turns Icebergs to Icecubes

When you charge a vision with emotion magical things start to happen:

• You attract co-creators to help where they are needed.
• You are inspired to take small actions that lead to cascading dominos towards your goals.
• Your path forward lights up and you trust that the next step will become clear at each junction.
• Potential obstacles shrink in the face of the large overarching vision.
• You move from a “should-head” to a positive mindset of “how am I going to circumvent this obstacle”.

I’m going to show you how to avoid creating a bland, boring vision board that just doesn’t work.

Here’s how, step by step.

[If this gets you excited stay tuned for a new opportunity that I am bringing out in the New Year that will incorporate building a big vivid vision as part of a challenge to discover your purpose in 2023]

Step 1: List out your Values

Make a list of your values so you can incorporate them in your vision.

(PS. If you need help here go check out issue TTT02 of the Tuesday Transformation)

Step 2: Explore your Gifts

You are going to go on a little journey to explore your gifts so you can incorporate them in your Vision:

Let you mind wander back in time to a time when you felt completely in the zone.

Time disappears.

Everything feels effortless.

What are you doing in that moment?

Who else is there with you?

How are you helping them or serving them?

You feel in a complete state of flow

You feel fearless

What’s your unique superpower that you are using for good in this moment?

You feel goosebumps.

A sign that you are doing your life’s work.

Doing what you have uniquely been put on this planet to do.

This is your gift.

See yourself giving this gift.

See it being received gladly and gratefully.

Who is it that is receiving it?

See how this gift makes a difference in their life.

Now complete these four sentences:

• When I’m in a state of flow I am doing…
• I’m in the zone when I am helping…
• I lose track of time when I …
• My superpower is helping people …

Step 3: Write a Vision for your Life

Close your eyes and let you mind drift to the future.

And imagine how you would feel living with purpose.

A life of freedom connected to your values and your gifts.

Now write out a vision for the future life you desire that includes the following prompts:

• Loving myself I feel …
• In my interactions with those I love I experience …
• In my work life I am …
• Giving my gift feels …
• My relationship to money feels …
• In balancing the time I spend with those I love and my work I experience …
• In my home I feel …
• Living from my values feels …

Step 4: Craft your Ideal Day

Taking your vision describe a future day where you are living the life of your dreams:

• Write from a specific point in time that day(e.g. first thing in the morning; or the evening at sunset)
• Describe where you are, with who, what you are thinking, how you are feeling, what you are doing, how you are contributing.
• Explore all 5 of your senses: smell, sight, hearing, taste, touch
• Write in the first person as if it is happening right now and focus on the positive emotions you feel.

REMEMBER: make it specific and charge it with emotion.

Step 5: [BONUS] Make a Vision Board

When you are certain you have crafted and Ideal Day filled with emotion, now, and only now, do you entertain making a vision board.

You don't have to make a vision board but if you do here's how:

• Obtain a piece of dark canvas that you can hang on the wall when you are done.
• Find pictures of people and places that MEAN something to you and inspire emotion.
• Print them out as high quality photographs
• Let your creativity flow as you cut them out and create a collage picture on the canvas
• Hang the emotionally charged vision board somewhere you can see it every day.

Sit back, feel inspired and appreciate as your dreams become reality.

Well that’s it for today. I hope this encourages you to go forth and build a big vivid vision for 2023 and beyond.

PS. Type “MANIFEST” in the comments below and as a bonus I’ll send you a guided visualization you can listen to and assist you in crafting your Ideal Day.