Build A Big Bright Vision For Your Future

Entrepreneurs, Featured, Inspiration & Motivation | March 17th, 2010 | Comment (1)

I am excited to be a part of WomanzWorld as a guest blogger. My name is Tess Denton and I’m a future facilitator.

I work with women in business (and women not in business) to help them clarify their vision for the life they’d like to live. I offer vision and change workshops through my company Destiny Rising , and I author a blog (http://yourdestinyrising.wordpress.com) each week that allows women to spend a short segment of time adding energy to their plan for their future.

In my writing, presentations and workshops, I draw on my cumulative business and creative background. I studied Improvisational Comedy at Players Workshop and Second City Training Center and worked with multiple improvisation groups focused on business communication and culture.

I have a Master of Science degree in Training and Development. Among my additional training and development experiences, I studied Neuro Linguistic Programming and worked with the Dale Carnegie Organization. All of these experiences have served as a foundation for my approach to work the area of Vision Boards and the Vision Process.

I invite you to spend some time with me, engaging your imagination in creating your future (personal or business). It’s great fun, fulfilling and it will help you be in your picture of your future very quickly. My belief is that spending time on any process needs to be interesting, engaging and personal. The focus of my posts will be using vision boards and the vision process to help entrepreneurs like you achieve business success.

You may be asking, “What’s a vision board, and how can it be useful in my work?”

A vision board is generally a collage filled with pictures, phrases, words and images that represent how you’d like your life to look, and what things you’d like to attract into it. While simple, much thought and intention go into the process in a business setting, you can use the process to create your visual mission statement.

Your vision board provides a concrete picture to which you can refer. It can set you or your team on the path to your goals. It’s an inspiring and expansive alternative to a traditional mission statement.

To give you a feel for how to plan for a powerful Vision Board, I invite you to participate in one of the exercises from my special report. The focus of your work can either be your business, career or personal development. Let’s begin!

Exercise 1: Look straight ahead.

Typically, when we plan for our future, we begin by discussing where we’ve gone wrong, what’s not working, or what has caused our present to be less than we desire. Try something a little different with me:

Number a paper from 1-20.
List twenty items, relationships and situations that you’d like to have in your business life. You’re likely to find this exercise refreshing, because it thrusts you directly into the future. You don’t need to muddy this list with the stuff that you may not like happening in your business right now.

Exercise 2: Squeaky Clean Intentions.

Now that you’ve completed the first exercise, take a few minutes to scrub your list of any negative phrasing it may contain. For example, if an item on your list reads: “no more dead-end client prospects”, make that statement a positive intention, such as: “ample client contracts with projects that pay in 30 days”. While this may sound Pollyanna or cliché, trust the process. Have you ever noticed that we are attracted to positive people, because they have positive things to say. Think of your list the same way. The more positive you can make it, the more you’ll want to hang out with it, and that’s the goal here J

These two exercises are just a sampling of the process I’ve developed for transforming your now into a preferred future. Spend the next thirty days gaining additional clarity around your intentions. In the coming months, we’ll take your clarified intentions and put them to work for a productive and lucrative future.

Until next month…
Tess