I know a few people who are being confronted by a changing environment in their respective career paths. It’s striking how they ignored the signs of decline. There were evidences years ago that something was coming, but either the money was too good or they were just plain comfortable.
Personal vision is important many ways. Not the least of which is having a sense of where things are headed. In other words, is it a dead-end or a short to meadium-term ebb. Seth Godin has written a wonderful book called “The Dip” that speaks well on the matter.
So where do we learn personal vision? Sadly, not many places in the world we live.
Corporate America is too fixated on quarterly numbers to bother. There are tons of consultants and coaches out there, but many of those are just looking for a “gig.” Churches have fallen into the trap of teaching people to be religious. You need someone or some group that will help you, in an authentic way, to deal with your greed, deal with your pain and without a doubt deal with your fears. Everyone of those issues will block you from seeing clearly. You cannot become what you cannot see.
Here is a brief list of those I’ve encountered who’ve helped me in an authentic way to develop my personal vision:
- Terry Walling and Leader Breakthru
- Seth Godin
- Rick Williams
- Guy Kawasaki
- Larcel McGhee
- John Eldredge
Who is authentically helping you in the pursuit of your vision? Give me your thoughts…
Personal vision, at least the way that I understand it, is not something that needs to be learned, rather it simply needs to be rediscovered. The desire and necessity to pursue the direction that things are headed and the role that we will play in response to that direction has been written in each of our hearts. I have found that the best way to gain vision is to ask the One that has a vision far greater than my own. Daily. It is a relationship, not a religious doctrine. I do believe that comfort and greed play a large role in silencing the voice inside, but eventually, that world we have attempted to build on our own will come crashing down until the distractions are small enough for us to hear the voice.