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As our research continues and we work with clients, we find that those individuals who are best able to meet life-work challenges and succeed in extraordinary ways continue to 1) discover who they are, 2) explore their creative potential, and 3) visualize their success. Creating a personal vision for success brings these three elements together.

Recently, we incorporated a visioning component in our Creativity in Life & Work seminar and client strategy planning sessions. The results were outstanding. Individuals created their personal vision for success. Their visions were used to focus and evolve relevant solutions to the challenges and opportunities they face individually and collectively.

As each person described their vision, additional benefits resulted. The participants…

·         gained a better understanding of one another,

·         appreciated one another’s diversity and skill, and

·         recognized how they contribute and seek recognition.

We call this discovering the essence of their personal vision, such as fostering excellence in others, building enduring relationships, or achieving superlative performance. From the essence of each personal vision a collective vision formed that enabled the participants to be more creative, connected, and inspired to meet personal and business challenges and opportunities. Solutions evolved, strategies materialized, responsibilities emerged, and commitments ensued.

What is vision?

Vision reflects the aspiration of an individual or a business, and how what they accomplish is recognized. Essentially, it is an assertion about the future significance of the individual or business. For example, RETHINK’s vision is a recognized business innovation thought-leader company, and the premier virtual junction for advancing individual and business creativity and success in life and work.

A vision can be characterized by:

·         seeing yourself in the vision; you are the vision,

·         stretching beyond your current reach and range,

·         reflecting imagination, intuition, and peripheral vision

·         motivating others to participate, ideate, and excel, and

·         reflecting sincere commitment and adaptable endurance.

It is also important to understand a paradox of the visionary as stated in The Visionary’s Handbook, 2000, by Watts Wacker and Jim Taylor, of FirstMatter, LLC: “The closer your vision gets to a provable “truth,” the more you are simply describing the present in a future tense.”

What is visioning?

Visioning is visualizing yourself in a future place or position that is a realization of what you are pursuing, i.e., the desired outcome. Be it winning an Olympic event, capturing 90% of a market, or gaining recognition at work, visioning requires that you understand who you are and that you be, see, and live the vision in your thoughts and actions.

You may create a vision by a) building it as a story or scenario, b) creating it  “clean-sheet” style, evolving its components to fill your view, or c) deconstruct your vision, identifying its essence, finding new combinations, and reconstructing a whole greater than the sum of its parts.

Try creating your vision for success using RETHINK’s Rethink-Pad™. Draw a picture of your vision. Tell its story to friends, family, and associates. Discover the essence of your vision and see if it meets the criteria above. Feel free to Contact Us.