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Summary & Transcription: In today's episode we answer: Why is creating a compelling vision so important? What challenges will you face when creating your vision statement? Will your vision change? What questions can you ask to help create a compelling vision? Micro-action: What action can you take right now to put you on the right path? Today we're talking about how to live your best life by creating a compelling vision. One of the most important aspects to living the best life possible is initially defining what does that mean to you because if you don't understand what that means to you, you're never going to get there. When you're creating that vision of the life you want, you need to understand and define very clearly and visualize and have it in your mind, what does this mean? Otherwise, you're just kind of wandering around aimlessly, trying not to get hurt. Having a compelling vision will let you live a more purposeful life, and it subconsciously guides you towards the life you want to live. In this episode, we're going to talk about why you should create a vision, some of the challenges you're going to face in creating a vision, and questions that you should ask yourself along the way. Then now that you have a vision, what should you do with it? Let's get started by talking about why having a vision is so important. If you've listened to some of the previous episodes, you know that I like to use analogies a lot. I want to ask you a question. If you were going to build a home, if you were, let's say, a home builder, and you wanted to build a home, would you start building a home without a blueprint? Probably not, right? You'd want to have everything really clearly outlined, where things are going to be and all that kind of stuff because otherwise you're going to build a home and then it may not end up being the home you want. Unfortunately, this is how most people go through life. They have a lot of things on their mind. They have a lot of goals and things, and a lot of times they're not written down. They're not documented, and they're just kind of going through. Then sometimes they get the house they want, and sometimes they don't. Sometimes they end up saying, "You know what? This isn't really what I was planning on." Well, where you need to start is by having a vision. You need to understand. When I say a vision, I think a lot of people look at a vision as a destination. To me, while it does provide that foresight of where you're going, like a destination, to me, it's also about how do you want to live along the way? What experiences do you want to have? What kind of mindset do you want to have? Who do you want to go along the way with? It's a lot more than just a destination in mind, and so that's important to keep in mind. Just like a builder might use a CAD design to get a better view of the vision of what this future home might look like, there's a lot of different exercises that you can do from vision boards to just visualizing yourself being in this state you want to be, whether it's just waking up in the morning and just being grateful to be alive and just visualizing that until you get to the point where you can actually experience that. Some of the challenges I want you to be aware of when you're working towards creating a vision is first, there's going to be a fear response. If you've never created a vision, you're going to say, "Well, how do I do this? I don't necessarily know how to do this." I'm going to help try to guide you a little bit along the way. Of course, you have Google. You can search and do a lot more there as well to kind of pull up different ideas or worksheets and things like that, that you want to do. Our natural reaction will be anytime that you're thinking of trying or doing or being more, for a lot of people, there's a little bit of a fear response because it's different, right? It's out of their comfort zone.