Alignment of Your Life List and Personal Vision
Once you have your personal vision and life list figured out, it is important to make sure they are aligned. Here is how I recommend doing this:
- Ensure everything on your life list is consistent with your personal vision or values. For example, if your personal vision and values state you need to be around other close friends, you probably should take “experience a year traveling by myself” off the list. Or at least ask yourself whether this is really consistent with your values. Or maybe you have strong values regarding protecting the environment, and you have “clear cut a section of the rainforest” on your life list. Probably should rethink it.
- Evaluate each section of your personal vision and determine whether your life list supports it. For example, one of the elements of my personal vision is to “continuously experience new things in life”. My life list aligns well with this, since I have a significant number of places to visit or new things to try on the list. However, it would be hard to put something on your life list that addressed “make time for daydreaming”. This is something to be addressed when you set up your implementation plan (daily quiet time, etc).
- For each item on your life list, determine where specifically it aligns within your personal vision. If there is not a clear connection, this is an area for further exploration. Maybe this item is not important to meeting your personal vision.
Once you have a good Personal Vision (including your core values) and a Life List, it is time for developing the strategy to achieve them. I’ll evaluate several methods for doing this in follow-on posts.