| id="body"> | | | | A Family Vision |
| Here's an interesting story from the world of race | | | | We live in a society where the average family |
| car driving. One of the most important things that | | | | spends only fourteen and a half minutes a day |
| beginning race car drivers learn is what to do | | | | with each other all together. I don't believe that's |
| when they lose control of the car and go into a | | | | what we really want. |
| spin. The natural reaction is to focus on the wall | | | | So here are some key questions for creating a |
| or other object they want to avoid. Because their | | | | family vision. |
| focus is on the wall, that's usually where they end | | | | What do we most value as a family? |
| up. Instead of focusing on the wall, the drivers | | | | How do we want to spend our time? |
| learn to focus on where they want to go. This | | | | What legacy do we want to leave for the |
| allows them to avoid the walls, stay on course | | | | generations that will follow? |
| and go where they want to go. | | | | What impact would we like to have on our |
| What does this have to do with the power and | | | | community? |
| strength of vision? | | | | A Career Vision |
| Just about everything. | | | | We spend most of our adult waking hours at |
| In my counseling experience, I have found that | | | | work. Yet it's one of the main areas in life where |
| the approach most of us take to life is to sort of | | | | we tend to just stumble in and make it up as we |
| "make it up as we go along." And then we | | | | go along. Here are a few key questions for |
| wonder why things end up such a mess. It's like | | | | creating a vision for your career. |
| the old saying, "if you don't know where you are | | | | What are your dreams for your career? |
| going, any road will get you there." | | | | How would you like to spend your working hours? |
| Even when we do have a plan, it's only a partial | | | | What would make you get up each day excited |
| plan. Then when our plan doesn't work, or "hits | | | | that you get to go to work? |
| the wall", we don't know where to go from there | | | | Do you want to make a living or make a life? |
| and give up. | | | | The answers to these questions can get you |
| In order to be successful in life, I believe we need | | | | started in creating a vision in each of these key |
| to have a clear vision for what we want, in all | | | | areas. You can add other areas and other |
| areas of our life. Even if we have alot of desire, | | | | questions as well. The next step is to begin, right |
| energy and motivation, without a clear direction | | | | away, to take small daily actions toward each of |
| and vision, we can end up like a "dead atheist." All | | | | these goals. |
| dressed up and no where to go. | | | | I'll close with an example of the power of vision in |
| Why have vision? | | | | our lives. Picture yourself sitting at home at your |
| So let's look at how to create a vision in several | | | | kitchen table, with a big juicy lemon on a plate in |
| key areas of our lives. | | | | front of you. Now take a knife and cut the lemon |
| There's a proverb that says "without a vision, the | | | | in half. Smell and feel the juice. Now cut a slice |
| people perish." I think we can extend that parable | | | | from one half. More juice, more smell. Cut that |
| and say without a vision -a marriage perishesa | | | | slice in half. More juice, more smell. Now take that |
| family perishesa career perishes | | | | half, bring it up to your face, take a whiff and |
| A Marriage Vision | | | | then bite into it. If you're like most folks, and you |
| One of my favorite things to do is to help a | | | | did this exercise, right now there is a bit of |
| couple create a vision for their relationship. Most | | | | moisture in your mouth. |
| people spend more time planning a two week | | | | Here's the really cool thing. There is no lemon. You |
| vacation than they do planning how they want | | | | created a physiological response in your body |
| their relationship to be.Here's a key question -"If | | | | through the power of vision. |
| we could design this relationship any way we | | | | And so it can be as you get a clear vision for |
| wanted it, how would it be?" How would you | | | | what you want in life. The clearer your vision, the |
| -spend your time?relate to and communicate with | | | | quicker your brain will respond. |
| each other?plan for your future?spend | | | | So get clear and get going. |
| money?help each other grow? | | | | |