The Benefits to Creating a Personal Vision Statement
Each year, individuals sit down with poster board, scissors, and paste in hand to create a vision board – an outward depiction of the things that they aspire to pursue and obtain in their lives in the season ahead. Similarly, a personal vision statement is a vivid idealized description of a desired outcome that inspires, energizes and helps you create a mental picture of your target. In essence, it is a statement that describes how you see yourself in the future. A personal vision statement describes your hopes and dreams and evokes a sense of achievement and fulfillment. A personal vision statement is a powerful tool that provokes you to reflect upon your goals to build and shape your dreams. It differs from a vision board in that a vision board can be very two dimensional; I see it, I like it, I cut it out and put it on a board. But what does the pictures you cut out really mean? Do you really want it or was it an impulse at that moment of time? In this mann...