When building a vision map, most people write what they want to manifest. That is an important aspect of your vision, but your mission or purpose is the foundation which your vision rests upon, and the opposite approach is necessary to find your “why.”
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I was talking to a friend about his vision map for the coming year. He had filled out a template that included multiple aspects of the vision for his work, and asked for me to see what might help him achieve it and what might block him.
I told him that I could see his higher self blocking him from achieving it, because his purpose and mission, his “why”, would allow for corruption and his downfall into the world if he achieved the success he was looking for. This was at odds with his true life mission. The mission he had written only satisfied his basic self, the part of the consciousness that likes getting what it wants.
We all have a lower part of consciousness that helps us function and be motivated into this world. It is vital to have its cooperation in the direction you set for your life. That is what will motivate you in the world. It can be money, prestige, fine food, travel, luxury items, attention, security, honor, and other drivers that will keep you engaged in your physical life.
The issue for him, was that his mission engaged his basic self but didn’t reflect his higher purpose, and the bigness of who he truly is.
We relooked at his mission together to find his higher purpose. He knew his life purpose, but we needed to translate it into his business. We needed a mission that both engaged the basic self, but encompassed his higher values.
To connect his vision to his deeper mission, we needed to explore not what he wanted but what would make his success fulfilling. To do that we needed to find what he was willing to risk failing for.
So I asked him, and you can you ask yourself the same questions:
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