{"id":761,"date":"2007-07-20T12:23:04","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T12:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/why-personal-vi\/"},"modified":"2007-07-20T12:23:04","modified_gmt":"2007-07-20T12:23:04","slug":"why-personal-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/why-personal-vi\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Personal Vision Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/P>
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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<\/A> has written a wonderful book called “The Dip”<\/A> that speaks well on the matter.<\/P>
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So where do we learn personal vision?  Sadly, not many places in the world we live.  <\/P>
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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. <\/P>
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Here is a brief list of those I’ve encountered who’ve helped me in an authentic way to develop my personal vision:<\/P><\/p>\n

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  1. Terry Walling and Leader Breakthru<\/A>\n
  2. Seth Godin<\/A>\n
  3. Rick Williams<\/A>\n
  4. Guy Kawasaki<\/A>\n
  5. Larcel McGhee\n
  6. John Eldredge<\/A><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Who is authentically helping you in the pursuit of your vision?  Give me your thoughts…<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","category-leadership-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}