Week 31 Blog Post: The FIVE things your vision doesn’t care about.

By now, if you have listened to the replay, you know the story. I created a vision board and then after throwing up all sorts of ideas and dreams up on the sucker, EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING became my personal reality in 120 days.

I didn’t think it would happen that way. I’m a natural-born visionary and there is no way I saw it coming. I was thinking “accelerated vision,” but what I wanted,

• a television pilot
• a radio show 5 days a week
• a full-time speaking career
• 6 pounds lost
• a second car

was literally impossible. I mean it. I had terrible credit, I was very unhealthy, and I had no experience anything I wanted.

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That’s when I learned something really important about vision. A something that completely transformed my life and if you can grasp it, will transform yours.

My vision doesn’t care about limitations. It still exists.

I created a video for you about the process of committing. That’s really what the problem is. It feels better to have the option to choose, rather than having to make one vision work.

There are five ways to commit to your vision.

• Admit it.
• Put it out there.
• Get yourself in the space of learning.
• Ask for what you need.
• Act on your vision.

Your vision exists because you see it. In your mind, it has already survived all the impossible. You looked past it all and somehow, you can envision and dream of a circumstance in which you have all these things.

So your vision doesn’t care.

You see, when I created that first vision, I used five “impossible” categories.Each category was a reason why my vision shouldn’t happen at all. And it’s also proof, your vision doesn’t care about any of the reasons why your dreams might not happen.

You follow me? No? Well let’s keep going.

• Category #1: Things I had failed at already.

I had tried to lose weight a few times, trust me. And even if I was successful at losing, they came back again. I promised myself I would do better each Sunday night after one of those binge-worthy suppers that lasted 5 hours, and by Tuesday, I was off the wagon and back into my routine. I smoked, I drank, I worked all the time, I dealt with nothing, I worked out irregularly and I didn’t sleep. So losing 6 pounds represented me thriving in a situation that was almost impossible to thrive in. You see I was in an unhealthy marriage, I was dying on the vine at work (although not many knew about it), I was drowning my anxiety in over-socializing and drinking.

And yet, I lost six pounds. To be sure I did a few things differently, but I truly believe it was my vision that made it possible.

• Category #2: Things I had no experience in.

I didn’t have experience in television or radio. In fact, I really didn’t know anyone in the industry. I had not been a paid speaker. For the fifteen years previous, I had been working, raising children, marrying, divorcing, moving, and so on. What I wasn’t doing was preparing to be a television or radio personality in any way. I wasn’t even sure what I would speak about if I were given the opportunity to take the stage.

And yet, I scored a television pilot, a radio show five days a week and I had my first and second speaking engagement in those four months. How? Well, I talked about it, and I ask for it and I prepared for the offer, all of which floated by me fairly quickly. My vision was embedded in my purpose and while experience is good, my purpose more than made up for it. It’s only gotten better since.

• Category #3: Things I was too old for and other “too’s”

Let’s face it: I wasn’t a spring chicken at 37. With no experience, how was I to achieve these goals? The media industry wasn’t looking for someone like me. They didn’t even know I existed. I was too old, I weighed too much, I had all these children to support, a husband. The exact opposite of the people who were already succeeding where I desired.

And yet, no one has ever asked me my age. They didn’t worry about my weight. My children have been very well served throughout my career. In fact, I would say they were better served! Somehow, for every opportunity I was given, I was perfect for the opportunity.

• Category #4: The circumstances were all wrong.

When I began this journey, the recession wasn’t in full swing. I was about to develop a business in completely the wrong moment. No one was lending. No one was spending. I had no business starting a business when my husband was underemployed and I had mouths to feed. I lived in Iowa (not exactly the hotbed of media success) and I personally had terrible credit. How could Nead Inspiration be anything but a stupid fairytale?

And yet, it was exactly the right moment to support other people who were searching for something different. It was the right moment for social media to take flight, leveling the playing field for people who lived in places like Des Moines, Iowa. It was the perfect time to utilize Skype and FaceTime and offer coaching at midwestern prices to people all over the world.

• Finally, Category #5: It was just plain impossible.

In the replay I talked about wanting a car. Imagine this: I have bad credit, no savings and a new business that had made about $400. How was I to get a car. It was impossible. And the cause of great stress between my husband and I.

And yet, when my friend needed transportation and was unable to drive her car, I offered to support her for a year and beyond all odds, I had my second car.

So what is your excuse? What are your impossibilities. I’m sure you have a few. I bet you don’t have as many barriers as I did to my vision. I’m no special person, my friend. I just did the work and my success was waiting for me. Why not create a vision for yourself and instead of playing it safe, just go big, daring the impossible to happen?