Headlight Vision Worksheet
- Category: Wellness
- September 3, 2021
Having a clear sense of direction, and a clear Vision for your future, makes life easier and more efficient. It helps you make quick decisions with more certainty, to stay focused on what’s important, set healthy boundaries that really work, communicate your needs, your wants, and to create, notice and take the right opportunities.
This Vision Template is a simple way to start working out what a Vision for your future could look like. It also helps you see your whole life; how each piece fits in to and affects the other. How, for example, your relationships affect you work and vice versa. How your finances affect your leisure pursuits etc.
The headings below are based on the way people often define their own lives. You may choose different headings, and you may choose to use words and images, or you may choose to use something other than this word document. The grayed-out prompts are just suggestion that may help you add detail.
All that matters, however you approach it, is that you create a Vision for your future self that is exciting and positive, and based at a time in the future that is most motivational for you. It is about an ideal world; your ideal world.
To build a clear Vision, take your time filling it out, maybe a little every day over a few weeks, sitting in a peaceful place. Enjoy the process! Write in the present tense, as if you are in the wonderful, inspiring future moment you have created.
There is no right or wrong way of doing this! What feels right to you is the right way to do it.
Work or School
- What have you achieved or are you achieving?
- How are you “operating” at work or school? Efficiently? Joyfully?
- Who are you leading and influencing?
- How and where is your leadership most effective?
- What are your relationships like? With whom?
- What are you learning?
- What are you really good at?
- What are you really enjoying?
- What are you being noticed for?
- What measurable goals have you achieved, or are achieving?
- What else is important?
Finances. Money.
- How much are you be earning?
- How much do you have saved or invested?
- What is this allowing for you, and what will it allow in the future? (for example, lifestyle, belongings, retirement, security, emotions)
- What else is important?
Romantic Relationships.
- What is your relationship like?
- With whom?
- How are you when you are with them?
- How are they when they are with you?
- How are you when you are not with them?
- How are they when they are not with you?
- What makes them special?
- What do they look like?
- What do you do together?
- How do you support each other?
- What else is important?
Friends. Platonic Relationships.
- What is your relationship like?
- With whom?
- How are you when you are with them?
- How are they when they are with you?
- How are you when you are not with them?
- How are they when they are not with you?
- What makes them special?
- What do they look like?
- What do you do together?
- How do you support each other?
- What else is important?
Family Relationships.
- What is your relationship like?
- With whom?
- How are you when you are with them?
- How are they when they are with you?
- How are you when you are not with them?
- How are they when they are not with you?
- What makes them special?
- What do you do together?
- How do you support each other?
- What else is important?
Community.
- What communities are important to you?
- What type of people are in them?
- What does each community give you?
- How are you when you are with them?
- How are they when they are with you?
- How are you when you are not with them?
- How are they when they are not with you?
- What makes them special?
- What do you do together?
- How do you support each other?
- What else is important?
Business Goals.
- What are you achieving?
- What have you achieved?
- How are you measuring success?
- What is the impact you are having?
- What financial goals have you achieved?
- What other measurable business goals have you achieved?
- Where is your main business focus at this point?
- What else is important?
Activities/Leisure.
- What are you doing for fun and leisure?
- Who with?
- Where?
- When?
- For how long?
- How often?
- What does it make you feel?
- What else is important?
Physical Being. Health/Appearance.
- How do you feel physically?
- What do you look like?
- What image do you project?
- How are you measuring your health?
- What are you doing to create and manage a healthy body?
- What else is important?
Physical Environment. Places and spaces you spend time
- Where are you spending time?
- What does it look like?
- What do you love about it?
- What else is important?
iOS. Internal Operating System and Sense of Self.
- These are the things that collectively determine who we are & how we show up. For example
- Behaviors. How are you behaving?
- Emotions. What are you feeling?
- Mood. What is your mood most of the time?
- Thoughts and the way you think. How are you thinking that is different from now?
- Beliefs, Assumptions. What do you believe and/or assume? About life? Other people? About yourself
- What else is important?
What you own.
- What do you have?
- How do you feel about having it?
- What else is important?
Spiritual.
- What do you believe?
- How are you practicing your belief?
- What is important about having this belief?
- What else is important?
Learning / Self Development
- What have your learned?
- What are you learning?
- What new Skills, knowledge and competencies have you gained or are gaining?
- What are you really good at?
- What else is important?
What are you known for? How do other people experience you?
- What reputation do you have?
- What do people feel about you?
- What do they know about you?
- How do they see you?
- What are they saying and thinking about you when you’re not there?
- What else is important?
Language and the way you communicate.
- How do you communicate to others?
- Verbally?
- Non-Verbally?
- What else is important?
At this future point, what does a normal day, week, month or year look like?
- Daily
- Weekly
- Monthly
- Yearly
What is the impact you will have on the world?
What is the impact you will have on the “systems” within which you operate?
A “system” is a formal or informal community that you are part of. It could be your Family, a Team, Group, Organization, your circle of friends. Maybe your School, City, State, Country, the industry you work in, the culture you belong to or identify with etc. Pick the Systems that are most important to you and write about the impact you have on them at this future point.