CREATING YOUR VISION
“Dreams are the touchstones of our
characters,” Thoreau, a man who delighted in his imagination, once wrote. Your
vision is your most important dream or mental picture. It can also be a set of
dreams and long-term goals. A vision defines the optimal desired future state;
it tells of what you would like to achieve over a longer time. Vision can be
your personal “why” or the organization’s internal purpose of existence.
You might often see vision and
mission portrayed together. These are not the same, although we can sometimes
confuse the two. However, there’s a crucial difference: contrary to vision,
your mission describes the status quo, what you are doing right now. It is in
line with your current capabilities. Your mission defines the present state and
job of your organization.
Take SpaceX for example; their
mission is: “SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and
spacecraft.” Where a mission describes the now, a vision instead forecasts the
desired future. SpaceX believe humankind needs to be a multi-planetary species
to survive many more generations to come. In accordance, their vision is
“enabling people to live on other planets.” So by driving down the cost of
launching rockets while working daily on their mission of building reusable
rockets, they eventually enable the transport and settlement of many people on
Mars and beyond – which is there, so far, unique dream of the future.
Have you carefully discover your vision?
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