I taught a class today on creating your personal vision statement, and I heard myself spinning quite a yarn about how important it is to align your values and passions to your vision of who you want to become. Now I do truly believe in this advice and, in my own way, have been sharing it for many years. But I am struck by how easy it is not to heed our own advice.
My students were looking at me intently and nodding their heads in unison. One young woman even commented that her vision statement talked about that one thing she longed to do and how she would get to it when the money flowed. I repeated some good advice someone once gave me about ‘not following the money’, and then — Wham!
There I was face to face with my own inner monologue about how one day — soon — I would be able to write and consult and teach — once the money flowed. I had waited a long time to actually pursue these things, and as I face a future that includes all those things, I realize something really surprising.
I had been dropping “bread crumbs” all along leading me back to this personal vision. I had pursued advanced degrees with abandon while working full time and raising my sons. I had embraced projects that would teach me about the very things I wanted to consult about. I had traveled across the state and across the world looking for relationships that would support my metaphysical road map.
I just didn’t know I was doing it or, at least, I didn’t realize I was doing it without conscious intention. But we cannot escape what truly interests and inspires us. Our desire for a life that resonates creates subconscious “bread crumbs” that lead us right where we were going all along.
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