Guide The Vision With On-Target Goals
Copyright 2005 So-lu'shunz Management Services
Begin to live more powerfully & more significantly - the journey
begins today!
Purpose is what you're created for. Mission is what you're meant
to do about it. Visions are the evidence. Goals are the means of
achievement.
So far we've discovered that we all have a purpose and by the
same token, we all have a mission as well. To this point we have
only had to be willing to discover them. Patience and
willingness have been the keys.
Then we learned that we are all visionaries and we not only have
the permission but the charge to exercise our imagination in
creating visions. Now we come to the crossroads that separates
the dreamers from the true visionaries.
The dreamers will remain in the porch swing piling dream upon
dream and waiting for someone to recognize them. The visionary
will begin to experience a pressing need to see the dream
realized and will rise up and begin to formulate the design. If
you see a more vibrant, brilliant life inside you, you're a
visionary. If you hunger to see it come to pass, you are ready
for the process of on-target goals.
Each of the visionaries in our last article is remembered not so
much for the dreams they dreamed, but for the manner in which
they brought them into reality. We observed that we ought not be
threatened by the greatness of the likes of Edison, Bell,
Gandhi, and Pasteur, for to do so is to deny the greatness in
each of us.
These greats had what we would consider wild imaginations. But
they had something else - the tools to insure that each dream
manifested in a better reality. And most importantly, they had
confidence in their dreams. It is said that Thomas Edison
performed some one thousand experiments before his incandescent
bulb glowed. But he continued with the process, knowing that he
was not defeated until he quit.
Victory does not necessarily belong to the best. It belongs to
the most persistent.
Vision is the ability to see what others are not (yet) able to
see; to create within oneself something new and better, bigger
and brighter. But that vision must be translated into a
concrete, measurable reality. When you begin that process, the
designing of goals, you have become the architect of your vision.
Goal design is indeed the work of an architect. It is bringing
those visions which are outside and beyond and above the norm
into the realm of reality, utilizing the tools of the real
world, and changing the real world in the process.
If the vision is properly fleshed out and ready for delivery, if
you are committed to its delivery, you will be prepared for the
work before you. And make no mistake, the real work begins now.
But this process does not take place in a porch swing. This
requires dedication, energy, and sometimes the willingness to
forego creature comforts. You will need to pull out the
calculators, Gantt charts, the projections, the plans, your
contacts and resources. There must be a willingness to "go for
broke," to lay it all on the line for the manifestation of the
dream.
If you're ready to dedicate yourself to the realization of your
dreams, the good news is that there is a reproducible process.
There is a formula, and while it will not do the work for you,
it will guide you.
Each vision will have multiple goals, which must be carefully
laid down, much as stepping stones leading to a pre-determined
destination. Begin by listing the goals you believe will draw
the vision closer to reality.
With each goal you have identified, follow the process below. As
you work through the design process, you will determine that
some goals are not necessary after all and will be discarded.
Others will move to the forefront. Stay with the process. An
accountability partner is invaluable at this stage of the
process.
Step 1 - TARGET the project
Step 2 - EXAMINE the need
Step 3 - DEFINE Success and Failure
Step 4 - EXPLORE the Options
Step 5 - IDENTIFY the Requirements, the Obstacles, & the
Available Resources
Step 6 - DEVELOP Strategies
Step 7 - IMPLEMENT the Final Program
There's nothing left but the doing. Your plan is formulated, and
you need only put the wheels in motion and watch this goal take
shape.
Follow the same process with each of the goals you have
identified for your vision under construction.
The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is the
determination to bring the vision to pass. A dreamer is no less
creative, but is often ill equipped or under-inspired to
transform the vision into reality.
A true dreamer dreams to avoid reality. A true visionary dreams
to change it.
Begin your exciting journey today - create large and detailed
dream canvases and then dedicate yourself to the process of
bringing them to pass.
You have something to offer the world that only you can offer.
The world is waiting!