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How to Write Your Compelling Vision Statement

Guest post by: Gary Baker

Article Overview: A vision statement is a vivid idealized description of a desired outcome that inspires, energizes and helps you create a mental picture of your long term goals. They are also written in the present tense, as if you have already achieved them.

How to Write Your Compelling Vision Statement

A vision statement is a vivid idealized description of a desired outcome that inspires, energizes and helps you create a mental picture of your long term goals. They are also written in the present tense, as if you have already achieved them. Vision Statement Guidelines

The best vision statements for result areas describe outcomes that are five to ten years away, although some look even further out. You will want to focus on very specific goals that you will reach in your own life, with your spouse, in your children's lives, with your business, etc. Be SPECIFIC and thing BIG.

Summarize Your Vision in a Powerful Phrase

If possible, try to summarize your vision using a powerful phrase in the first paragraph of your vision statement. Capturing the essence of your vision using a simple memorable phrase can greatly enhance its effectiveness. This phrase will serve as a trigger to the rest of the vision in the mind of everyone that reads it.

Your Vision Statement Should Describe the Best Possible Outcome

In general, you should base your vision statements on the best possible outcome. In fact, you might want to envision something even better than what you consider to be the best possible outcome.

Remember that the purpose of the vision statement is to inspire, energize, motivate, and stimulate your creativity, not to serve as a measuring stick for success.

Your Vision Statement Must be High Quality

The quality of your vision determines the creativity, quality and originality of your ideas and solutions. A powerful vision statement should stretch expectations and aspirations helping you jump out of your comfort zone.

Albert Einstein said, "Imagination is more powerful than knowledge." I believe this is true in many respects because while knowledge allows you to see things as they are, imagination allows you to see things as they could be.

When we become aware of what is possible, we begin to realize that dreams can be achieved, that challenges can be conquered, and that problems can be solved. In doing so we open up a completely new set of avenues and possibilities, which by itself is a tremendous source of passion and energy.

Describe Your Vision Statement in the Present Tense

Describe your vision statement in present tense as if you were reporting what you actually see, hear, think and feel after your ideal outcome was realized.

Make your Vision Statement Emotional

Your vision statement should describe how you will feel when the outcome is realized. Including an emotional payoff in your vision statement infuses it with passion and will make it even more compelling, inspiring, and energizing.

Add Sensory Details to Your Vision Statement and REPEAT

The more sensory details you can provide, the more powerful your statement becomes. Describe the scenes, colors, sounds, and shapes. Describe who is there and what everyone is doing. These sensory details will help you build a more complete and powerful mental image of your ideal outcome.

By reading your vision statement out loud at least twice per day (early in the morning and before bed) you will cement your future life into the psyche of your inner consciousness, and you will see remarkable changes in your life beginning TODAY.

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