Mission & Vision ,Personally speaking...

Mission & Vision- Personally speaking



“ Cheshire puss ……….would you tell me ,please , which way we I ought to go from here ?”
“ That depends a great deal on where you want to get to” said the cat.
“I don’t care where _____________”said Alice
“Then it does not matter which way you go” said the cat
In many ways we are like Alice in Wonderland. In real life, we allow our selves  to be led by the events ,not really caring where ….as long as we get somewhere.
Do we really ask ourselves – “What am I doing here?( Mission?) and what I should be doing 2 to 3 years from now?( Vision )

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While taking an evening walk with my friend, I asked him, “What is your mission in life?”He suddenly stopped in his tracks and with a strange enquiring  look in his eyes he said “WHAT??”
I could understand that between friends, such questions are not asked. It is not considered normal. Should you persist ,you might invariably end up walking alone.
If you really have a personal mission in life , it is better written down in your personal diary .If possible put a label that it is confidential( I am certain that such a note about confidentiality would tempt your wife and grown up children to have go at it)
Well ….That  is what I did about 5 years back.
I took an ordinary note book – not a diary ( Who reads a note book , these days ?)
I jotted sown what I was doing at that point –and I what I wished to do in two years down the road. Actually it was a kind of a wish list – a list of six points-
I also elaborated a little more and worked out the money I should invest for getting some initial momentum .
Within next couple of weeks, I spent feverishly  the money – It was more of an urge for shopping and seeing the new artifacts in place and the logic and rational provided by  the noting.
That is it….
Then I changed gears . Taken the road often travelled .The note book receded from my sight and memory and the priorities dictated by events took place . It was a kind of fire fighting all the time .It was recession time..
Years rolled by.
On  one Sunday – I decided I have accumulated enough papers and wanted to kind of untangle myself and the best way is to tear them to pieces and put them away ….. And then.. The note book , made its appearance
I flipped through the pages….Voila .
There .. The six points of my vision .. my wishes ..As I looked at it , I realized that every one of my has materialized in real life.
How it happened ?.. I did not consciously follow up on these six points . But . it has come to life .. All six of them.. Really.
Moral.
If you want to achieve short term goals – all you have to do is to write them down – initiate action- The chain reaction in all possibility, will happen.
And the vision .. In all probability will be a reality..
Only thing ,You may have to write a new Vision .. Eventually .

-------- Ilango