Visioning and planning: Building your future and managing your time

Learning Objectives: 6A2
Visioning:
'a way to live a life of choice, not chance'

Aim:
a picture of success looks like at a particular point in the future, described with enough richness of detail that you'll know when you've arrived'

Vision should be:

• Inspiring
• Detailed 
• Documented 
• Communicated 
• Little Scary 

'a vision without execution is a hallucination' - Thomas Edison 

if you don't push yourself to go beyond your comfort zone, how will you ever overachieve?
Your vision inspires and informs the actions that bring you closer to your goal

You can break a vision, no matter how big, into smaller, manageable actions and tasks

This morning:
First draft of vision
Rules:

• set your vision five or ten years in future 
• start by writing the date 
• Present tense, where you are at that time 
• Professional and Personal - average day, schedule, work 
• cover everything that defines success to you 

9/11/2018

Its November 2023 and I’m living in New York in my own flat, working within a small studio a few days a week as an art director having previously worked in Liverpool and Manchester. I’m working on a mix of projects some driven by social issues, but other client driven briefs in order bring money into the studio. 

Outside of work I’m undertaking personal projects both freelance and for fun, selling prints, cards online. I’m happy and content with where I am and where I want to be, focused on doing things that I enjoy rather than the things I think I should be doing. I’m earning a sufficient amount to sustain living in New York for the next few years with visits home, trying to save £300 per month to fund trips home/holidays. 

I have a good work life balance, working 8am - 6pm with weekends off exploring the city and doing personal projects. I have enough time for work, socialising and keeping fit with different activities, boxing and gym. I’ve met new people, making more of an effort to socialise to maintain new friendships, going to gigs and trying new places/bars with friends. I’m regularly attending design events within the city to increase my creative network and meet new people.