Do You Know Where You're Going?

You can't read two paragraphs in any business book without running into the word “vision.” According to most business experts, no business can exist or run without a carefully-crafted, beautifully-designed, and expensively-framed vision statement hanging on the wall. How will success be defined? What are the values that drive our company? Are these statements ones we can live with as employees of this corporation? So what are the vision statements that drive our lives? Each of us, whether we've take time to think about it or not, has one. There are things we value, things we want, behaviors we expect of ourselves, places we want to go, and things we want to achieve. It’s all written down somewhere within us. Whether we like it or not, we all have a vision statement. But most of us just aren't intentional about it. And without being intentional, we end up making decisions we don't want to make and (continue reading...)