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Why Your New Year’s Resolutions Are Failing (Part 2/5): Vision Perspective
Create your vision with each iteration.
Deciding to create meaning from our circumstances, however challenging they may be, is what the previous step is all about. Making that heartfelt commitment is a prerequisite to the next step, which is defining our end destination. “If one does not know to which port one sails, no wind is favorable”, writes Seneca. It’s all about the journey, they say. Not only, I add. The world is a co-creation of all beings- that includes us by the way-and not knowing where we want to go, we will end up building someone else’s vision ultimately.
Back when I was 20 years old, I came across the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho-a book you might have heard about. If you read it, you may remember the concept of Personal Legend. Some might refer to it as life purpose, destiny or even ikigai. My point is that we are-at least I was-mistaken about what it really is. Over the years, I found it did not do me any service to see it as some kind of fixed entity, waiting patiently for me to wake up. Rather, I believe it is constantly in the making. And we refine it through our experiences.
Steve Jobs was certainly considered one of the greatest visionary. Only that he never really had a vision. When he came back to Apple in 1997 his goal…
