What’s Your One Year Vision?

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

This powerful tool that I adapted from a classic Harvard Business School study will help you gain clarity about your vision for success. By projecting yourself one year ahead and then looking back on all your accomplishments, you’ll begin to breathe life into your personal and professional vision of the future.

Then, with support from members of the Accountability Club and me, you’ll start to “chunk down” your vision into Monthly Milestones backed by Game Changer action goals. And we’ll hold you accountable to your commitments.
Here’s what you do: Project yourself into the future, exactly one year from today. Fill out the following exercise from that perspective, looking back at all of your accomplishments of the past year.

Today is (date) _____________. I am so grateful for all that I have become, done, gained and acquired this year in my personal and professional life. This includes:

This makes me feel:

This allows me to fulfill the vision I have for my life purpose, which is:

The successful people (mentors, friends, advisors, colleagues, role models) who have impacted my life include:

The actions I took to achieve my goals include:

The specific and measurable results I achieved in the first three months were:

The specific and measurable results I achieved by mid-year were:

The specific and measurable results I achieved by year’s end were:

To do this I gave up this limiting assumption(s) about myself:

Now I counter that assumption with this positive mantra about myself:

This year, I was most proud to realize that I am:

Here’s holding you accountable to massive success!

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