7 Ways To Challenge Yourself And Gain Vision In 2017

Discover Your Vision This Year

Take a journey this year in discovering skills that you’ve lost or forgotten. Reconnect with yourself and ask challenging questions. What do you want to accomplish this year? What will you accomplish this month that will be unique and noteworthy?

1. Identify your uniqueness.  The daily grind can really take away from your creative stamina.  You really have to fight for your creative time, whether it’s early in the morning over coffee or tea late at night.  Use this time to develop your vision and seek to understand yourself better.  There are things that set you apart from others — you don’t have to be a Mensa member.  Note, hard work and going the extra mile are key traits to success.
2. Become goal-oriented.  Set general goals with deadlines for yourself, they don’t have to be precise, but they should be specific enough in that you will feel like you went above and beyond to accomplish it.  Start with goals that are tangible that you will see resolved within the year.
3. Minimize to maximize.  If you are reading this, I’m sure that you are multi-talelented (you should recognize your talents), multi-tasking individual. That became a problem for me as I spread myself too thin. It was an early-on strength that became a weakness, because I wasn’t doing a few things well, and many things in a mediocre fashion. Minimize what you can, so that you can maximize your potential in your strengths.
4. Disconnect to connect. Take breaks from your work to spend with family, relax, and have fun. Note that your friends and family need you, and you need them.  You deserve vacation and time-off.  If you don’t fatigue will get the better of you — see the next point.
5. Don’t burn out.  Be perseverant to healthy levels, emotionally and physically.  Too much stress can take a physical toll on your body, and will erase any gains that you make.  Towards the end of 2016 I just couldn’t drink enough coffee to overcome the fatigue.  Ironically, I started cutting down on coffee when I noticed it wasn’t helping.
6. Use your strengths to help others.  Are there ways that you can contribute to others, not related to your work?  Whether it be a church, school, or volunteering?  This helps develop your mind as you take a break from the usual strategies and goals.
7. Be positive, lean towards “Yes”.  One thing that can really take away from your vision is negative language.  Don’t say things like, “I can’t,” or “It’s too hard,”.  Before you say no to something, at least think about it.  “No” by default will lead to zero reward, while saying “Yes” will lead to an unsuspecting reward.

Founder Mic Capota

Founder of LightFilter Camera / Founder of Revo Media LLC