When you are thinking about your personal vision statement, it can be helpful to mind map out how you want your life to be, thinking about it from multiple perspectives. I like to put together a statement of purpose that covers the areas of:
Social
Spiritual
Physical health
Family and relationships
Career and business
Finance
Personal development
In each of these areas, I break down the topic into three sub-topics: Be, Do, and Have. This gives you the identity, activity and ownership aspects of the vision. As you can see on the Mind Map, this helps bring out different aspects of what you are going to do with your life. I originally put this Mind Map together in late 2005, and review it each year. I have only made minor adjustments to it over time, since it reflects pretty well what I am all about. I can certainly say that the focus that this has given me has allowed me to already achieve at least 80% of the items mentioned on the Mind Map, and following this path has opened up a massive list of other opportunities.
All because of the fact that I know where I’m going and have that focus.