Transition to Your MissionSample

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” - Michelangelo

When you are in a season of transition and someone asks a vision question, I know how disheartening it can feel. I’ve been there.

You can feel lost and detached from what you thought your life may look like. You may lack confidence and feel ashamed of your life. I’ve been there and felt that too. It sucks.

Allow me to sit with you, ask you some questions, and create some space for you to get out of your current situation.

This is a critical and impactful time in your life. If you do not take the time to believe and design a vision for yourself, you will live your life in a default mode.

Find a quiet space and dig into these questions.

What would your vision look like if you knew you could not fail?

What were you born to do?

What are your strengths and weaknesses?

What are you afraid to do or start that you know you need to?

If you have not dug into some of these questions before, I’d suggest you read through my “7 Signs to Your Assignment” devotional.

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with Ryan, who is an ultra marathon runner. As Ryan hobbled over and sat down, I asked him if he was ok and what happened.

He responded by telling me about the “Javelina Jundred."

The Javelina Jundred is a 100-mile trail run race in Arizona around the week of Halloween. Ryan had finished the race the day before and was exhausted. He could barely walk.

I asked him dozens of questions about the race, but this one answer caught my attention.

I said, “Ryan, what do you do at night while you are running? How does that all work?

Ryan explained how he ran with a headlight and just kept running. He knew the terrain from running it before. He had a radio to talk to his team during the night. He had food prepared for whenever he was hungry.

He simply said, “I knew what I needed to do and just kept running.”

Ryan finished the Javelina Jundred with one of his best times. He told me his team had a great strategy and vision in place and he did what they planned.

The whole race Ryan was in so many transition states. He ran uphill, downhill, with people around him, by himself. He ran hungry. He ran with a stomach full of food. He ran in the sun. He ran in the dark. He ran hot. He ran cold.

No matter what was happening around him, Ryan kept on running and sticking to his timetables and vision for the race. His vision was activated and played out perfectly.

The scriptures tell us in Habakkuk 2:2, “Write the vision and make it plain.”

If I was asking you about your vision for your life, how clear and plain is that vision?

As you think of where you are right now in your life, what do you want to build with your life?

I want to pause with you here and now and challenge you to get out a piece of paper and a pen.

I want to challenge you to write out your vision for your life.

What. Do. You. Want. It. To. Become.

You need to connect your belief with your vision. Just like you turn on a light switch and the light turns on, you need to write out your vision and allow your belief to be the electricity that turns it on.

The scriptures tell us, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for; it’s the evidence of things unseen.”

It’s time to wake up and get serious about your life. Do not allow anything else to get in the way of the life God has given to you.

Here are a few things to review before you go:

• A vision statement is Biblical
• A vision statement aligns your gifts with God.
• A vision statement must be expansive enough for God.
• A vision statement must include faith.
• A vision statement daily connects and centers your progress.

Before you go, this is what my daily vision statement looks like. I will include the template below so you can start the process.

Template: To [what you want to do] by [how you’ll do it] so that [what impact you hope to make].

Mine: I develop powerful, high-performing businesses and leaders through coaching, consulting, writing, and speaking so they can create a billion dollars of positive impact in the world.

Let me know what is resonating with you the most. If you are a powerful, high-performing leader, reach out, and let’s talk further.

I’m rooting for you and praying with you.

God bless.

Coach Anthony Thompson