6B2 - Undertake research to identify and evaluate their personal and professional skills and the career or progression opportunities available to them.
Visioning:
"A picture of what success looks like at a particular point in the future, described with enough richness of detail that you'll know when you've achieved".
An effective vision should be:
- inspiring, detailed, documented, communicated and a little scary.
"A vision without execution is a hallucination" - Thomas Edison.
Success is defined on your own terms, not that of others.
Break a vision into smaller, manageable actions and tasks - using time effectively, work smarter.
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A vision for the future:
1. set your vision five or ten years in the future.
2. start by writing the date (2023 or 2028).
3. write in the present tense (I have, I do, we live, etc) - family, life, etc - talk about both personal and professional life.
4. describe your ideal life, in rich detail.
5. include personal and professional life.
6. cover everything that defines success for you.
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09.11.18
The year is 2023. I am living just outside of London, an ideal spot between where my family live and between work, in a small house with my boyfriend, Laurence. The place is very cosy and filled with the same IKEA furniture from Laurence's first place, however has been arranged and decorated in a much more organised way than he had it originally. We have a spare room, which I have turned into my own little studio space, a place where I can work on personal projects and display my work - my own personal art gallery.
I work during the week as part of a team in a studio specialising in print and publication design, from which I have had numerous works published already, which is still exciting to see every time, especially when I find them on shopping trips. I love to travel, and I am lucky enough that my job allows me to spend some of my time in new countries, working on exciting collaborations with other design studios and new clients. I earn a healthy living which allows me to do this.
On the weekends I spend my time working on personal projects, the odd bit of freelance work, and spending time out with my boyfriend on days out. I have my own dog now, although not forgetting about Alfie, the family dog, of whom I am still his favourite even after leaving him depressed when I left for university in 2016. He still gets over-excited when I go to visit. I visit my mum and sisters regularly, who are still at school. I hope that what I have achieved in my life so far now after university inspires them in their career choices also.
In addition to travelling for work opportunities, I love to travel in my free time also, with my boyfriend who enjoys the same. These new experiences continue to form ideas and inspiration for both work and personal projects. Perhaps one day I will move out of the UK to live and work in a new country, exploring design from an entirely new perspective.
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