Do You Have a Vision For Your Life?
Today I’m going to give you my checklist to help someone who is lacking vision for their life. Some people have never had that realization that they should plot their perfect life, or the belief that they could make it happen.
I know this one pretty well, and I’m excited to share this with you, because this is a tool you can use to help someone design their ideal life. It’s one of the greatest gifts you can ever give someone.
There are many reasons why a prospect would lack a vision, but the one I’m going to focus on right now is that the person can’t or won’t design the future.
They have never had that realization that they should plot their perfect life.
I know this one pretty well. I grew up going to work with my dad in construction. I was on a path that I was just going to go right on into doing construction.
No Vision: Never Thought About It
I never just sat down and thought, “Hey, on average, I’ve got about 75 years here. What am I going to do here?”
There was never a thought of making that decision because I was grooved into a particular direction.
So the plan was going to be to get a job, and since I already started working up through the ranks with my dad (I learned a little bit about foundations, a little bit about framing, a little bit about lawn care), I was already in a rut.
It was just a little groove I was in. I was following a line.
That’s typically what I find with a prospect when you’re sharing the business with them – that opens up SO MANY options and possibilities and the prospect has no idea how to look outside of the current groove they are in to imagine something else.
They can’t put this new idea of something else into a bucket. They don’t have that bucket or that drawer to put it into.
They have no vision because they simply have never thought about it.
Don’t Believe They Can Get What What They Want
Another reason a person may not have a vision is that they don’t believe they can attain the vision.
Let’s say a video talks about creating freedom or creating wealth, and they’ll say, “Nah, that’s for somebody else. That’s for a celebrity or someone who is good at sales.”
They don’t even have the ability to look at it and ask the question: “Could I learn that?”
Vague or Conflicting Vision
Another possibility for lack of vision is that the person could have a vague or a conflicting vision.
Let’s say that the person wants to be a great singer, but they don’t know anything about music. They’ve got a vague, unclear picture of their future.
Or, they might think, “Once I get married, then I’ll figure out what I want to do because I don’t want to be in conflict with my spouse. My spouse might want something else.” There’s vagueness and there’s conflicting visions.
The Velvet Rut – No Compelling Reason
Another scenario for lack of vision is that the person has no compelling reason to do anything different in life.
They might think, “I have a job. Why would I need something else?”
I call that type of an idea the “velvet rut.”
There’s a velvet rut at all income levels:
- There’s a velvet rut at $20,000 a year.
- There’s a velvet rut at $50,000 a year.
- There’s a velvet rut at $5 million a year.
When someone’s in the Velvet Rut they are comfortable just where they are, and they have no compelling reason to do anything else.
Failure to Dream
The other reason a person has no vision is that they may have created a vision for their life, but they don’t revisit their vision frequently enough.
It’s not right in front of them.
They also may have never implemented steps that would help them to achieve their vision.
These points form a checklist that I have intuitively used to help me create my perfect life.
What is my perfect life?
Do I want to live at the beach?
Do I want to live in the mountains?
Do I want to travel?
Do I want to live in other countries at different times?
Do What You Want
It’s your 75 years. Do what you want.
Otherwise you’re going to do what others want you to do.
That’s just the way that I view it.
There have been various times where I had different views on my life and what my vision would be.
For many years my vision was to be in the Navy, but at one point I thought, “Well, I’ve already joined the Navy. I can’t have that vision anymore.”
So I had to revisit what I wanted in life. I just ended up saying, “Wait a minute! I can get out.”
I was 12 years in when I decided to get out and all my friends in the Navy said, “What? Nobody gets out at 12 years. You only have eight more and then you get retirement.”
But at that point I had a different view, so I renewed what I wanted and I just decided what I would do to get it.
I couldn’t just get out right then because you have to do time until that expiration date comes up, but I plotted it. I figured it out. I began to decide how I wanted to change my life.
Design the Life You Want
It doesn’t matter if you’re 70 years old, you’ve still got five years, or ten or 15, or whatever it is. Change it! It’s your life. That’s what it all comes down to.
When I’m talking with a prospect and I can tell that they’re just missing any target they might have, I ask them, “What’s your big goal?”
You’ve got this big thing called the vision, and then you’ve got the five-year goal that’s in alignment with the vision.
Then you’ve got a one-year goal and then you’ve got it broken down into quarters (every 90 days).
That breaks down to what’s on your calendar.
What are you doing in alignment with the one-year, in alignment with the five-year, in alignment with the vision?
What are you doing this moment that’s in alignment with all of that?
If people aren’t living that way, then they are not designing their life.
They’re not plotting their future. They’re just allowing TV or the internet or some other distraction to determine what they want to do.
What’s Stopping Them From Having a Vision
So those are the scenarios I go through with a prospect when I’m trying to help them determine why they lack vision. It’s like a little checklist. It’s intuitive to me now, but it used to be a checklist for when I found that prospect was lacking vision and not plotting their life.
I suggest that you think about this and some of your prospects and people that you know, that you brought it to your business.
You’re close to them, you see their life, you see how much time they spend on TV or you see how much time they spend online, or how many times they post on Facebook, and you can see that potentially this could be a reason why they won’t engage in doing the business.
You Can Help Make Their Life Better
My rule is that people live however they want to live.
I’m not trying to change them. I’m not trying to make them better. I’m trying to help them make themselves better because they want to get better.
If someone would have come to me about any business when I was in the Navy, and I was really at the top of my game and I was high-spirited on what I did, I wouldn’t have listened to them.
I remember in the locker room, some guy got his check and said, “Man, I only made this much money.”
And I remember another guy saying, “We don’t do this for money, man.”
At the time I thought, “He’s my man. That’s what we are.”
I thought that until that wasn’t the case for me anymore, when I said, “I want more.”
That’s when I needed somebody to reach down and grab my hand and say, “I can assist you.”
Network Marketing is the best business I know of, because you can have somebody reach down and grab your hand and pull you up and then walk you through the steps.
Your Life Is a Series of Actions That You Initiate or Don’t Initiate
Life is a series of actions.
It’s all life really is, when you boil it down to the basics. It’s a series of actions that you initiate or don’t initiate.
I want to find out if my prospect is initiating.
Are they initiating making their life?
Have they decided that they want something bigger?
If they have, I want to intersect into their life at that time.
I want to be there.
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