Spend Time With Your Vision

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Purpose brings you to life, vision keeps you alive.

I think of vision(s) as the different assignments you’re responsible for in each of the different seasons of your life. Every assignment will lead you to achieving the greater mission of your life: your purpose. The different visions you have throughout your lifetime are the puzzle pieces that form into your purpose.

For the sake of making this post as clear as possible, from here on I'll be referring to vision in the singular sense (you can insert one of your current assignments and treat it like a case study).

Intimacy with the vision.

A vision is dynamic, or at least it should be. If you were to look at it like any good relationship, you'll realize that your vision has it’s own identity and you need to get to know its persona, in the present and over time.

There are many faces that your vision takes on, and each will look different through the different seasons of your life. It's important that you know your vision inside-out, front and back, up and down, side to side. Know it like the back of your hand! The more you know about your vision, the longer your connection to it will last.

Caring for the vision.

Vision can be one major assignment that represents the reason for your existence. Alternatively, vision can be limited to just the next year, two years, or five years.

Either way, it is absolutely critical that you:

Spend time with it.

You need to visualize what the vision looks like, and that includes knowing who will be impacted by it, what sacrifices will you have to make, and who will be involved in actualizing the vision.

There's no way I'm revealing a guy’s face on IG on the first date. Y'all won't even know I am dating anyone until we are engaged, maybe even married. That's the energy you need to have with your vision.

You need to be really solid with it before you soft launch it to the world.

Write your vision and make it plain.

Keeping it as thoughts in your head isn't nearly enough to feel connected to it. It needs to become tangible before it manifests into reality.

If you loved someone but only spent time thinking about how much you loved them, and never actually told them, that wouldn’t be real love. That's cognitive dissonance lol. You need to pen down everything you have visualized to help make it clearer to you and anyone you choose to share it with.

Protect it at all costs.

Your vision will become a significant asset to your identity, so best believe that life will test it. There will be many situations that cause you to doubt it and push you to the point of giving up but it is your lifeline. It is critical that you guard it from opinion, trends, and norms.

Some people may know I'm in a relationship (I’m not), but that doesn't mean I welcome or care for their opinion. Even if they tried to share their thoughts, I wouldn't take it to heart and I would respectfully shut them down so they know not to share it again.

It takes a certain level of ruthlessness to sustain a vision. Don't be afraid to do what it takes to protect it.

Walk in it with confidence.

Don't be afraid to live out your vision once it is solidified. Imagine being in a relationship for three years and not a single soul knows. That's suspicious, and I would suspect that you are ashamed of your partner.

See your vision the same way. Feel free to fully live it out passionately and obsessively.