Creating The Life You DesireVisioning and Goal Setting for Success

HIPPY USA National ConferenceApril 2016

Gweneth WelchNational HIPPY USA TrainerCoordinator, Jeffco HIPPYJeffco Public Schools

Linda McNultyNational HIPPY USA TrainerHIPPY Coordinator, Retired

What is Visioning?Your life’s theme

Identify your passions and what motives you

Guides you in your daily life decisions

Create a deep sense of purpose and inspiration

Using your core values to support you in your decision making

Focus more time on the things you love

Creating a Mind Map

What does health, personal life and career mean to you?

What words pop into your head when you think of each of these?

Within each circle, answer the questions:

• What is ideal in my health, personal life and career?

HEALTH PERSONAL CAREER

WANT

DON’T WANT

DON’T WANT

WHO I AM IN FIVE YEARS

Writing a vision authentic to you takes time, patience, and practice. You will know you are in the right direction when you are excited yet 

nervous reading it.Your Vision:• Is based on the idea that in 5 years 

anything is possible• Articulates your greatest ambition• Supports you right now in making 

choices that lead you to your exciting future

• Can be changed by you at any time• Is not what other people want for 

you, it’s what you want for yourself.

What does your life look like in five years?• Look at your worksheets. (Mind Map,

Want/Don’t Want, Who Am I Questions.)• What themes do you see?• What keeps drawing your attention?• What makes you excited?

Spend about ten minutes and write a fewbrief vision statements. You will be ableto adjust your vision as you grow and evolve.

Choose a goal in one of your domains that you have for the next three to five years.• Begin with the end in mind.• Use affirmative language.• Write them in the present tense.• Be sure they are measurable.• Have a realistic time line.

Example:3 years:I have visted every National Park in the contiguous United States.

By June 2017: I have visited half of all the parks.

By August: My camper is ready to travel the northwest US into Canada for a 14 week journey.

What is a Vision Board?

A vision board is a tool used to help clarify, concentrate and maintain focus on a specific life goal.

Literally, a vision board is any sort of board on which you display images that represent whatever you want to be, do or have in your life.

The purpose of your vision board is to bring everything on it to life.

Keeping your vision board where you will see frequently will help you stay motivated.

How to Create an Empowering Vision Board

Representing your goals and visions with pictures provides visual stimulation that will actually strengthen and stimulate your emotions.

Your emotions are the vibrational energy that activates the Law of Attraction.

Find pictures, symbols, words that represent what you want to attract to your life.

Photographs, pictures from magazines, affirmations, quotes, or anything that inspires you and makes you feel good.