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Documenting #Vision2020

Beyond our work as workforce development professionals, we have been challenged personally and professionally. We have been asked to stretch and to reinvent ourselves to keep ourselves, our family, and our community healthy.  I am challenged each day in ways I never thought I would be before. Some things, like a simple trip to the store, are different.  Personal and professional relationships are different. How we speak, what we plan, and what we do. There is not a person in the world that could say the year 2020 is going as planned. Pandemic was not on my vision board.  This does not mean our #Vision2020 is dead. Instead, we must make it a point to go forward and keep the vision alive.
 
We have defined our vision. We have clarified our vision. The next step is to document our vision. Documentation of a vision for what we want to achieve can be done in so many ways. By journaling, paper vision board, online vision board, or other way, documenting the vision is important.  Documentation keeps you on track. For example, if your #Vision2020 contained a plan to build a house. You would want plans to ensure there are windows and doors. The plans would contain rooms and stair cases. Sometimes it is easy to get carried away and to add extras, but before you know it there are staircases that do not lead anywhere.
 
Now as a person that is looking to assist another with their #Vision2020, you want to encourage documentation. This will help a person start to bring what is in their mind to reality. Documentation does not have to be boring. It can be fun. Now that everyone is looking to put some creativity in their day to day, documentation can be a fun activity for folks at home. Encourage others to draw or doodle, use word art, make vision boards, have an interpretive sculpture of household items to represent their vision, or even turn the vision into a play. Either way, the mind is at work.
 
Many people cannot believe in something until they see it. They are apprehensive if something can happen or is real. Documenting the vision will help those folks turn their dreams into reality. Once they have what they really want, they will be able to figure out the steps needed for. Before you paint the walls in the new house, you must build the house. Before you build the house, you must have a plan, or a picture of what the new house is going to look like. Documentation is nothing but a plan. The plan does not have to be boring. The plan can be so many things as long as it is inspiring.
 
 ~Karen Cirincione
Email: kcirincione@gmail.com        
Twitter: @kcirincione 

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