This is the last thing I ask in my life coaching pre-session questionnaire: Do you have vision for your life? The women I coach usually leave that question blank.
We don’t sit around thinking about or even talking with people about our vision for our lives. What’s funny is that most of us know and are even inspired by the vision of the companies or corporations we work for. That’s one of the reasons why we chose to work there: because we believe in their products, in what they want to do, in the people they serve.
Why should we even think about our vision for our life? It leads you to examine it—to see patterns, the stories you tell about yourself, your values. It helps guide your decisions. It helps define what you want to do and the people you want to help.
When I came up with my own life’s vision, I looked at my past, what I valued and how I wanted my life to look like moving forward. I wrote down how I wanted to feel. I journaled a lot. There was a statement that came to me one night that I really loved which eventually got incorporated into my final mission statement. There were a lot of drafts and crossed out pages.
This is what I finally came up with: I want to help amazing women live an extraordinary life—to achieve their dreams and to do work that matters, that’s aligned with their strengths and values. I want them to create—and live—their own heart-crafted life. And that starts with me living an extraordinary, heart-crafted life of my own.
If you feel you’ve been taking a lot of wrong turns or if you feel a lack of fulfillment, that can be because you’re not aligned with your values or strengths. When you work with me, we can draft your life’s vision together so you can make better decisions moving forward.
