Have you ever wondered what your gravestone might say?
What is the biggest vision of your life?
What is the purpose of your life?
What is a "Greater Vision Than Your Life"?
To figure out what might be the greatest vision in your life, consider the statements you might find on the gravestones or in obituaries of those who have died. While we find this to be an unusual thing to consider, gravestones or obituaries contain an insight into how people have dealt with other people throughout their lives—who they were and how they are remembered by those they left behind. The greatest vision of your life will be a verbalization of the words you would ideally have engraved on your tombstone. The words on your gravestone will act as an abbreviated reflection of the life you lived as remembered by others.
In life, the greatest vision or goal we can set for ourselves is a vision of who we can or want to become. Without this, we risk being dragged along by the goals of “getting things done” and completing our “to-do” list.
There's nothing wrong with these types of goals, but what we become in life is ultimately how others will remember us. Work to make sure your endeavors in life mean something to the right people: that they mean the most to you.
Once you are able to hone into the larger vision of your life, this clear and meaningful vision will become the guiding principle behind all your future decisions, actions, behaviors, and attitudes for the rest of your life.
In business, if you were a company, your "greatest vision" would be either the organizational vision or the mission statement (i.e. why you exist and what you will commit your company's resources to). Likewise, outline in the larger vision of your life an ideal outcome for your life towards which you will commit your resources.
This affirmation should inspire you, motivate you and motivate you to get out of bed every morning and encourage you to take the appropriate and necessary actions to reach your goal.
Your life statement gives you perspective on life so that when times get tough (which they will), you'll remain prize-focused, consistent in your ways, and unaffected by the negativity of society, your peers, or even your family members.
This personal vision statement will become relevant to every area of your life, including your relationships, career, finances, leisure, and even routine responsibilities. This statement becomes a vision for your future that will define and shape every decision you make until you make it happen.
It may be true that you want to be remembered in a number of ways: as a career woman, a family man, a highly skilled professional, or perhaps an astute businessman. But, as you most likely already know, there are many areas in life to consider when it comes to planning and placing too much focus on one area of your life can easily cause you to sacrifice another.
A good example of misplaced priorities is when people place more importance on developing their careers than on maintaining healthy relationships. Money can often come at the expense of intimacy. Many people commit their lives to the empty pursuits of power, ambition, and income, only to end up neglecting their families and losing the respect of their spouses and children.
Upon reaching the end of life, it is common for many people to look back on their lives with regret, mourning the relationships they have "lost".
It's probably fair to assume that not many people go into their final hours wishing they'd made more money or spent more time at the office building their (or even someone else's) business.
An indication that someone has failed terribly at planning their life will be found in the regrets and heartaches they have in their final hours. All the things they "wish" they had done, what they "wish" they hadn't done, and the people they could have helped along the way but chose not to.
The madmen, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently, don't like rules and have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify them or denigrate them. The only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they make a difference: they invent, they imagine, they heal, they explore: they create and they inspire. be crazy. How else can you stare at a blank canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and listen to a song that was never written? Or look at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels ? We make tools for these kinds of people. While some see them as crazy, we see genius. Because the ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." - Rob Siltanen (who wrote this to launch Apple's "Think Different" campaign).
DETERMINE WHICH AREAS OF YOUR LIFE ARE YOUR PRIORITY
From your life experience thus far, you may be able to realize that considering life as a whole requires attention to many areas, which you need to balance. Life balance is one of the greatest goals we can achieve in life but, at the same time, this is a very difficult goal to achieve.
Was there ever a time when you became so focused on achieving a goal in one area of your life that it came at the cost of something else in another part of your life? This is a common recurring problem for many people.
Perhaps you've focused a lot on your career but then neglected your health?
Or maybe you focused on a new relationship and then neglected your friends or career?
Whenever you commit your energy to one thing, you often unknowingly choose to direct it away from something else. It pays to make our decisions wisely. We all have a limited amount of time and energy each day, and no matter how passionately we strive to move forward in life, none of us can accomplish ALL things, ALL of the time. Yes, we could accumulate assets, promotions and run multiple personal bests, we could even achieve the prestige goals of fame and immense fortune. However, if we get those things at the expense of more important things, our chances of enjoying a fulfilling and balanced life are slim.
Thomas Sowell once said it best: "There are no solutions, only compromises."
It's important to be aware of what we are sacrificing in our attempts to achieve something else. Economists would call this the opportunity cost. Opportunity cost is what we sacrifice to get something else.
How can we balance the most important areas of our lives and still achieve our primary goals?
It is important to decide what are the important areas of our life. It is vital that we maintain this perspective as we strive to improve one area of our lives without turning our backs on all other areas. There are three important questions we can ask ourselves before we go full steam ahead with anything that takes up a significant amount of our time or energy. Whether this goal is an accomplishment, an acquisition, or even a new intimate relationship, ask yourself these three questions below:
What impact might pursuing this goal have on my time?
What else might be affected by my divided attention if I engage in this quest?
How does this effort enhance (or detract from) my larger outlook on life?
While this may sound a bit sadistic, this line of self-inquiry can be extremely enlightening because, if we are not committed to pursuing the greater vision of our lives , we could end up compromising our standards on a daily basis.
The late personal development expert Stephen Covey once suggested that: "Without a clear focus on our guiding values and priorities, each of us runs a real risk of successfully climbing a very long ladder only to find it leaning against the wrong wall."
This is why our core priorities deserve regular and habitual consideration whenever we are about to devote time and energy to new research.
At this point there is nothing left for me to say but Find the greatest vision of your life and try to achieve it in the best possible way.
original article in OlisticaMente Kokoro 
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