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Your Vision is Your Calling Card

Looking to change careers or going back to school to either pick up where you left off or enroll in a new major minus a vision is choosing a difficult path. Or maybe you want to make more money, so you look up job trends for jobs that pay the most. There is nothing wrong in wanting to improve your income. Nor is there anything wrong in playing the game of accumulating monies. These are goals, to be sure.

However, a logical life void of spirit is lackluster. What good does it do to enroll in something that leaves you empty emotionally? Goals aimed toward the success of a vision are powerful. They answer questions such as: What is the purpose of this goal? Does it take me closer or further away from my vision?

Leadership is motivated by a vision. Success is not happenstance. Behind leadership and success, there is a vision. A vision provides a compass. It includes your values and what you believe for yourself and others. We are emotional human beings and make our decisions based on our beliefs and feelings; often impulsively without foresight. Strange, most people are willing to risk being reactive in their decisions, yet hesitate to take time out to sit down and write their vision based on their ideals. When you develop your vision from a proactive modality, it has purpose. It comes from your inner guidance; your spirit self where your talents and potential reside.

Here are ten benefits you get when you conduct your personal and professional life from your vision:

1. You design your blueprint of your future self

2. You feel empowered living your vision and not someone else’s

3. Being proactive puts you in the driver’s seat

4. You develop success habits and higher standards of excellence

5. You are more attractive doing what you want

6. You have more fun and are fun to be around

7. When the going gets tough, your vision is the glue to hold you together

8. Your vision is your calling to what’s next

9. You are motivated and inspired when you get up in the morning

10. New possibilities and miracles show up

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