Personal Vision Creation / Discovery

4.0 Having arrived, or more or less arrived at the earlier established vision.

• Citing a list of achievement and success: higher position in organization hierarchy, expanded business, higher social status, several community projects successfully organized. …..
• (If a deep soul search is carried out personally, there is a feeling of loss or what now?)

Indeed there are very very few souls who have clear personal vision either of lower or higher dimension, or making it sharper or more crystallized as they interact with their environment and reality, no matter how adverse or at odds with their vision. There are sure a lot of people with “negative tension” of high emotion on many things they don’t like or want.

Vision discovery or creation is not as easy as deciding on, say buying an item and goes for it. Many people I observe find it a puzzle about what in life they are really pursuing - in term of ultimate destination of their life. It is fine to have a vision of good health, as such; the visionary focuses on the health aspects with earnest drives and may succeed in reaching a far better health than before. It is also fine to have a vision of a very successful business or career. But when the visionary reaches the visioned destination, sometimes there is a sense of loss of what is the next step?

This sense of loss is quite understandable. When much energy is expanded in the pursuit of a "lesser" vision, there seems to have internal built-up of latent energy to be expanded. When the "lesser" vision is realized, the latent energy does not have an avenue to be applied to.

Our rational mind will sometimes ask: why do we have to go for a greater or larger vision, or any vision at all? Is it necessary, what benefits? After all I am not that ambitious!

A logical question invites a rational answer:

• A "lesser" vision is not stretching enough to propel the latent energy to move further forward
• Self-actualizing goal will develop full potentials in us
• Pursuits of genuine happiness in life is a never ending process
• No vision is like living without a soul
• ......

Each of the above rationale can invite many more logical questions: Why? What for? .... There is a limit to such intellectual game that most of us seem to be fond in engaging. The mental model is "having good rationale... then action", “It makes no sense to act without good rationale”.

These mental models can be translated into : “I need a good rationale for me to love my children and family. Otherwise why should I care for them?”. Is that how we behave and act?

Maybe a complex life is not just a world of rationale. Sometimes it is just a feeling, a curiosity or desire to search for a deeper sense of purpose in life that vision creation or discovery becomes all the more meaningful. There is a limit on the motivation aspects of either creating a vision or discovery of a hidden vision with rational and intellectual approach only. We may need to recognize that some people take longer time than others to visioning process. Others need special experience or dramatic event happening to connect them to vision. Having humbly accepting the complexity of human dynamic, a visionary leader needs to constantly and creatively design and facilitate a learning environment for such awakening to take place.

Techniques and Skills in facilitating Vision Creation / Discovery

The following can be starting points as focus for the experimentation.

• Vision Creation - some start with empty mind, and need creating a vision.
• Vision Discovery - some may have latent vision, but need un-covering over time.

The strategic approach is helping to connect and relate to current reality, with earnest learning appetite to constantly examine the underlying mental models at work, with commitment to redesign to a more appropriate mental model to the extend of creating a new set of behavior and thinking pattern.