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Create the Memory of Your Future

Guest post by: Jeff Stafford

Article Overview: A vision is something that pulls us forward - through action, intention and heart. It's in creating a vision, and using our strengths that we create the memories of our future. This is the place in which inspiration, contribution and engagement live. This articles provides 3 steps to utilize your Strengths in designing a future vision in which you achieve the results you desire.

Create the Memory of Your Future

I recently attended the Focusing on the First Year Conference at the University of Minnesota.The keynote from the Gallop organization,Shane Lopez, shared a great message about Strengths and Well Being and how they both influence our success in and out of the classroom. A key component of success is a having a vision.

How many of us have a Vision that propels us forward? How many of us use our Strengths daily to get us closer to living our Vision? Why is this important?

Shane said something during his keynote that I wrote down about 5 times:

When we create the memories of our futures we do better today.

By creating your Vision for the future - you do and become better TODAY ---- it's not this someday, maybe, out there in the future game. It's T-O-D-A-Y!

Here are three steps for you to create your Vision and start cherishing the Memories of the Future for you:

1. Ask yourself - What do you want? This is about attracting something - not getting rid of crap, but CREATING new possibilities. Sure, your office might be a pit - but the vision you create isn't about cleaning up, or pitching the papers, it's about Creating Serenity and Space for My Mind and Heart to Be it's Best in the Space. Your vision might be big, blurry, even etherial at this point. That's okay.
2. Determine your strengths - and get really pointed with this question - How have I used my strengths today that allow me to lean a bit closer to my vision. This is you at your best. You at your best is quick, effortless, warp speed.
3. Connect with the Emotional Content of your Vision. Close your eyes and laser focus on you standing in your vision. You've got it. Achieved it. High Five. Notice where in your body this lives. And breathe into the positive, life-altering, smile making emotion you have as you stand firm and large in your vision. What's the single word that describes that? Emotions are single words. Cognitive thoughts about what you are feeling tend to sound like a run-on sentence. When we can cement a positive emotion to our vision - our brain starts to act and answer, how the heck can that happen. The science behind this is catching up to what we've known.

Bonus...Get yourself a visual image of your vision, emotion and success. Look at it everyday. Put it someplace you can't help but catch glimpses of it. Long commute to work, road trip...how about putting a copy of it on your steering wheel?????

My strengths that propel me to success:

Strategic | Learner | Empathy | Adaptability | WOO

(each one a piece of this entry which seemed so easy to write!)

Bottom line --> Well Being drives SUCCESS. Take a step back to understand that your STRENGTHS influence HOPE that lead to Well Being.

Some simple definitions:

Strengths - natural abilities and talents

Hope - the ability to think positively about the future and knowing that I can do something to impact my future

Well Being - the healthiness of you in all aspects - physical, career, financial, relationships - all of YOU.

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