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The Importance of Vision

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare- Japanese Proverb

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It’s amazing how much can happen in a week. Last weekend I blogged about the need for rest, research and refocus. I accomplished that and proceeded into last week refreshed and focused. However, it didn’t take long for my life to be life, as it is what it always is, at this moment in time. The best part of that is I was either in a better position to deal with my life, or I had healers that helped hold space for me  to deal. Seriously, my yoga teacher, my therapist and the smudging by my massage therapist were Godsends last week.stones-451329__180

The main reason I needed the 3R’s last weekend is because a couple of weeks before, using The Path by Laurie Beth Jones, I finished the last part of my mission statement for work and life.  My mission is  to communicate, facilitate and inspire healthy meaningful connection with spirituality. I believe working as a life coach and a writer will help me to accomplish this. However, the next chapter of the book was Creating The Vision Statement. I started that chapter a couple of weeks ago and answered half of the questions. The exercise is designed to help me visualize what the end result of living my mission would look like. I needed to stop and pause because I wasn’t exactly sure how to answer the rest of the questions. Hence the research about what type of life coach I want to be and which coaching certificate program might work best. I didn’t even realize there were different types of coaches before I read about them. Interestingly enough I learned there was such a thing as a Yogic Life Coach I immediately dismissed it and went on to look at other more traditional coaching types such as a spiritual coach,  a wellness coach, a success coach and many more.

I didn’t figure out what coach I wanted to be, but that wasn’t the point. I’m still in the research phase. On Tuesday evening, my fabulous yoga teacher tagged me on an Instagram post from Awakened Life School of Yoga. I found it the next morning and went onto their website. It was very informative and the more I read, the more interested and caught up I became with the idea of allowing yoga to be more of a focus in my coaching life and personal life than I had originally planned. You see, it has become crystal clear to me in the past few weeks that yoga would be a part of my spiritual practice. I just hadn’t considered that it could be more of a focal point with my coaching career, which by extension would be a focal point in my personal life. Or vice versa. The point is, I hadn’t considered it, but my yoga teacher had. Oh, and the best part of Awakened Life School of Yoga? They provide intensive Yoga Alliance certified INTERNATIONAL Yoga Teacher Training programs in Bali and Costa Rica!!!! Needless to say my heart, my imagination and my spirit are on fire. In the past when someone suggested something this amazing and phenomenal to me, I would immediately start telling them why I couldn’t do it or why it wouldn’t work. But for the first time ever, I started thinking, “how can I make this happen?” None of this means I’m going to run off to Bali or Costa Rica next week. But I am more than open to the possibility or path that can lead there.

I thanked my yoga teacher when I saw her next on Saturday morning for tagging me on Instagram. It turns out the founders of the yoga school are former students of hers, a husband and wife, who are also life coaches! She thought I could reach out to them via email to let them know I am a student of hers (wow, I’m a yoga student!) and that my life’s path is guiding me towards coaching. She is hoping they may be able to provide some suggestions or guidance for me and possibly be a resource. She was also excited that I was so fired up about the training programs they offer. Well, I did more research on Awakened Life’s website and then sent an email to the founders as my teacher suggested.

On Sunday afternoon, I got The Path and my notebook out then finished answering the last half of the questions. They flowed from me as the answers did weeks ago for the first half of them. The very last question was to write out my vision statement incorporating my responses to all of the previous questions. While writing out my vision didn’t “flow” exactly, it came together magnificently with several rewrites!

The Path says “While a mission statement is centered around the process of what you need to be doing, a vision statement is the end result of what you will have done. It is a picture of how the landscape will look after you’ve been throught it. It is your “ideal.”  Your vision statement is the force that will sustain you when your mission statement seems too heavy to endure, enforce or engage. All significant changes and inventions began with a vision first.

I have my vision of what my mission will have done for me and my life. I am networking and researching with people while remaining open to what is put before me. I am grateful to be enjoying my journey. boardwalk-801723__180

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