KATHERINE BECKS
Personal Vision
THE CORNERSTONE TO PERSONAL MASTERY
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Personal Vision
- Vision is the ability to focus on ultimate intrinsic desires, not only on secondary goals, is a cornerstone of personal mastery
- Vision is based on the purpose of one’s life – why are you alive.
- Vision is recognized because it pulls you forward and makes life worthwhile.
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Vision Versus Purpose
Vision
- Is a specific destination
- Is concrete
Is a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s.
Is breaking the 4 minute mile.
Purpose
- Is similar to a direction
- Is abstract
Is advancing man’s capabilities to explore the heavens.
Is being the best I can be.
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The Need for Vision
- Nothing happens until there is a vision
- Visions need underlying purposes
- Purpose without vision has no sense of scale.
- Until we have established the scales we have in mind we’re not really communicating.
- Vision is intrinsic not relative. It is desired for its intrinsic value not where it stands in relation to another.
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Vision is Multifaceted
- Vision has materials facets – where we live, money, car etc.
- Vision has personal facets – health, freedom, and being true to ourselves
- Vision has service facets – helping others, contributing to a field.
- Society places great emphasis on the material – it takes courage to hold visions not apart of the mainstream.
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Vision Versus Reality
- There needs to be a gap between vision and reality.
- The gap should be the source of the creative energy
- The gap is called the creative tension
- The gaps can be discouraging, and/or make the vision seem unrealistic
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Resolving the Creative Tension
- There are two possible ways that the individual can resolve the tension:
The reality gets pulled to the vision
Vision get pulled to the reality
- The solution depends of the how steady an individual holds on to the vision.
- Separating emotional tension from the creative tension helps us hold to the vision
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Improper Resolution
- If we don’t distinguish the emotional tension from the creative tension we lower our vision.
The tension is reduced
We give up our vision by lowering it.
This lowering goes unrecognized and we settle for less - mediocrity
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Victory
- When we separate out the emotional tension and use the creative tension, we overcome obstacles and move closer to our vision.
- Mastery of creative tension transforms the way we view “failure”. It becomes simply a short fall, or evidence of the distance that still remains between reality and the vision.
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Victory Continued
- Mastery of creative tension brings out a capacity for perseverance and patience.
- Present reality for many of us is an enemy, since until we see it as bad we will not change in any fundamental way.
- Mastery of creative tension leads to a fundamental shift in our whole posture toward reality.
- An accurate, insightful view of current reality is as important as a clear vision.
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