Pursing a life of writing off the grid, I understand the importance of creating a vision for your life. You must be crystal clear about what it is you want your life to look like. If you don’t know what you want, or if you’re wishy-washy about it, it’s quite possible that you will end up exactly where you do not what to go.
Clarity
I’m spending a lot of time journalling lately (outside of my usual Morning Pages). My goal is to get at the core of what it is that I truly want. And it’s not easy. As so many things come up—be a full-time creator, run a sub 3:30:00 marathon, be debt-free—self-doubt always creeps in and derails me. Or tries to. Questions like, ‘Who do I think I am?’ or ‘Do you really think you can pull that off?’ have me second guessing myself.
That is why you have to have a vision for your life. As Rob Dial writes in his book, Level Up: How to Get Focused, Stop Procrastinating, and Upgrade Your Life: “If we expect to get something in life, or if we want something, we need to have a crystal-clear understanding of what that is.”1 You must know what you want.
A Vision for Your Life
Here’s what I do know… Twelve months from now, my plan is to not be doing the same thing, or be in the same place, as I am right now. Because life is short, and it is up to me to change it. No one can do that for me. So, I’m taking the time to get crystal clear about what it is I want and where I want to go. And I’m laying out the vision so that I can then create the action steps that will bring it into reality.
Do not stand on the sidelines. Do not hope or wish for things to be different if you’re not happy where you are right now. Take the time to create a vision for your life. It may change as you grow and change, but life is too short to wander aimlessly through it. Do yourself a favour: figure out where you want to go, and then start moving in that direction.
- Dial, R. (2023). Level Up: How to Get Focused, Stop Procrastinating, and Upgrade Your Life, New York, HarperOne, p. 55 [↩]
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