Vedge Your Best, Vegan Ideas for Everyone At Any Age 269: The Vision Thing — Back to Your Vegan Future
8 snips
Oct 28, 2025 Michele explores the concept of vision and its power to help us grow, even when life feels stagnant. She discusses how our past strategies can hinder future possibilities and challenges listeners to confront limiting beliefs about food. With humor and a nod to Back to the Future, she encourages playful experiments to spark change in our diets. A challenge prompts listeners to articulate their default and invented futures, emphasizing that the future is a blank canvas ready for creative reinvention.
AI Snips
Chapters
Transcript
Episode notes
Vision Directs Beyond Habit
- Vision gives direction beyond the habits that merely maintain the status quo.
- Without a practiced vision, your brain will recycle yesterday's thoughts into tomorrow's life.
Origins Of 'The Vision Thing' Phrase
- Michele recounts the phrase 'the vision thing' from George H.W. Bush's 1980s campaign as shorthand.
- She uses it to explain lacking a compelling organizing principle despite competence.
When Past Success Becomes a Trap
- Winning strategies that served you become the very patterns that keep you stuck.
- To create new outcomes you must source motivation and structure from a future vision, not past tactics.