Dive into a session that explores higher horizons of focus, encouraging you to reflect on your core values and aspirations. Engaging thought exercises invite listeners to stretch their vision and creativity, while practical strategies help integrate long-term perspectives into daily tasks. Regularly updating projects and action lists is emphasized, ensuring alignment with personal goals. The discussion highlights how a clear purpose and direction contribute to a meaningful life, urging introspection on what truly matters.
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Value of Future Focus
Focusing on the future improves current perception and performance, not just achieving goals.
The value lies in how future focus changes your present actions.
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Capture Your Thoughts
Write down thoughts and ideas during the higher horizons exercise.
This frees your mind for new ideas and prevents dwelling.
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Finding Your Purpose
Identify your purpose by reflecting on what motivates you and makes you feel authentic.
Consider what gets you up, what's meaningful, and when you feel at your best.
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This is an installation and implementation session on the higher Horizons of Focus?. We will spend time exploring if anything has your attention at each of the horizons, and will end with integrating the horizons at the project and next action levels. During the session, there are sections where you can create or refine what you have on each of the horizons. The prompt questions for each of the horizons are listed below. These sections were about five minutes each in the live webinar. We have edited out those sections of silence for this recording. Please feel free to stop the recording as you reach those sections, and use the prompt questions below to work on each of your horizons. The webinar concluded with these two thoughts:
Without clear purpose and direction you could easily be busy doing off-course things and wonder why a meaningful life is so elusive
Getting the right small things done directly contributes to an authentic and meaningful life
HORIZON 5: Purpose and Principles My purpose and principles contribute to my authentic life. Trigger Questions: What gets me up out of bed in the morning? What is most meaningful to me? What, if I am doing or expressing it, makes me feel like I am being who I really am, at my best? When do I feel like I really ?show up?? What really matters to me, in terms of how I live and work? What do I hold as standards for myself, no matter what, in terms of how I am living and working? HORIZON 4: Vision My purpose and principles influence my vision. My vision contributes to my purpose and principles. Trigger Questions: If I were wildly successful fulfilling my purpose, living my principles, what might be true for me, several years from now? What might I be doing? What might I have? What experiences might I be having? Contexts: Career Lifestyle Energy/health Finances Relationships Time horizons: 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? More? HORIZON 3: Goals and Objectives My vision influences my goals and objectives. My goals and objectives contribute to my vision. Trigger Question: Given what?s currently in play, and what I?ve thought about today, what are the things I need to have happen, or would like to have true for me, within the next 12 to 24 months? HORIZON 2: Areas of Focus and Accountability My goals and objectives influence my areas of focus and accountability. My areas of focus and accountability contribute to my goals. Trigger Questions: What are the areas of accountability in my work? What are the areas of focus in my life? HORIZON 1: Projects My areas of focus and accountability influence my projects. My projects contribute to my areas of focus and accountability. GROUND: Calendar/Actions My projects influence my next actions. My next actions contribute to my projects. My next actions get the things that are meaningful to me done.
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