Hello I have been asked to write about my  
                 PURPOSE  ***   VISION **** GOAL  journey ....So here it is, I hope it helps!

PURPOSE:  Discovering it by connecting the dots backwards

Early on I was using my  purpose, vision and goals unconsciously and I am going to guess you have been as well.  Read my story and see if you haven't experienced the same. 

In my teens I LOVED  riding and showing horses, I would sit and look at the horse journals and picture myself doing what I saw.  Getting close to  HS graduation I told my father I wanted to go to Boulder CO to their Equine program so I could manage barns and ride all the time. Sounded like a good plan to me.  My father said he was not paying for me to go out of state to school and I sure wasn't taken my horse. He said I could  go to business school in MO. and get a job that paid money.   I allowed my dream of years to be stolen and I chose  not to go to school so I went to work instead. 

When in  my twenties I purchased a BBQ restaurant that I was a waitress at. WHY? I watched the owner get nice things and I was at a spot in my life that I did not have what I wanted.  So I thought this must be the key, I need to buy this restaurant, so I did! No experience of owning anything, no college,  no cooking experience, just a burning desire for things to be different in my life. I remember my mother saying why are you buying a restaurant you don't know HOW to cook. I learned quickly!! LOL

In one year I doubled the profits, extended the building, I was on a roll,  why, because  I was  LOVING  what I was doing. What was I actually doing? Now that I know to connect the dots backwards for understanding,  I was providing  quality service with quality product for the people who came in to eat. For those who worked for me I created  an environment that encouraged them to value their selves and others. 

In the meantime I got into alternative medicine. LOVED it. What was I doing? Connecting the dots backwards I was providing quality service with quality products that encouraged people to help themselves and feel better.  

My life when connected backwards has always been wrapped around providing quality services  to people for the better of themselves and others. The common denominator starting revealing itself. I LOVE being around and encouraging people in some fashion.  I challenge you to do the same. Connect the dots backwards so your forward has more purposeful meaning. 

VISION: 

I had been a visionary and didn't know it. Most people just want you to get on with life. They say  dreams and visions are for children and don't come true anyway, right, have you heard that? That is from someone who has not ever done it and is obviously not living their dream. 

Remember Purpose leads to Vision, Vision leads to the Goal. 

 My purpose is providing quality service through teaching that encourages growth for the mind body and spirit. My  VISION is how to express my purpose. 

I personally do that through teaching  classes, coaching, speaking engagements etc.
.Write your vision as an inspiring story of what it looks like for your purpose to come to life. Ask yourself what things would I do, where, with whom, why, giving you what feeling and emotion?    
Vision off course:  I use to could never say NO Thank You to anything, I thought I had to do it all and I was on a spiritual treadmill that wore out.  When I came to the truth that God was going to love me just the same even when I wasn't everywhere for everybody my whole life changed, but not overnight.  I had been programmed to serve and  serve and serve some more  and he will be so pleased with me that everything will just work out. That did not happen for me.  That's is another story!  

Vision on course:

At this point on my journey I have concentrated  focus due to my daily self development of gratitude, studying and training.  My vision is clear because I write and say it everyday! I was not always this committed, I would do it and not and that is the results that I was getting and I didn't like that. So I got committed and in the process I grew to love myself, know who I am and  where I am going and it feels so good!

GOALS:  
Now your ready to set your goals with an awareness of meaning and purpose.
Your goals help you to fulfill your vision.  I have set a BIG BIG goal that i have no idea how it will ever come to pass. Then I set goals that help me to achieve my vision. 
Set goals on Career/Wealth * Relationships * Spirituality * Physical ( health , fitness, wellness) 

Goal cards:  I write a goal on a card and carry it with me, put up in my office, on a mirror to greet me daily.  Then when it comes to pass I put it a goal holding pottery vase I personal made. 

You can't get to the top of the ladder unless you leave the bottom. 

I hope you have found this helpful. If you have any questions or comments leave them and I will do my best to provide you with my suggestions. 

Keep loving yourself, 
Cindy

Lets get to the grit of why we do what we do. Shall we..

The self image you have  today , was created by someone else, your parents,the environment you grew up in and other people around you,friends,teachers,relatives etc. This self image formation began  before your  birth.  As youngsters we are like a sponges absorbing everything we hear and experience, as if it was the gospel truth, no matter if it was or not true. Our conscious mind of reasoning and logic and truth had not been developed yet so we take on what we see, hear and are exposed to as if it was written for us to wear and carry our entire life. As its been said we will grow physcially but we may be stuck somewhere back in our younger years emotionally. This is what  your self-image is made of. 
You might be thinking no not me I had a wonderful childhood and I can not remember any tramatic occurance that might have left some sort of scarred image of my self. This may very well be true and if it is great. Do you like the results your life has produced in the past? Has there ever been a habit of some sort that you wanted to change but for some reason couldnt get it done? The results in your life that you are currently experiencing are a direct result of how you see yourself.
  James Allen writes it best in a poem with a  line that says." Your environment is but a looking glass."   

My looking glass...
My father was a successfull image in the the city where we lived and at a very young age I started gaining weight, he was disappointed and embarrased and would bribe  me to lose weight. Make comments of his disaprooval to me about it.
My mother a loving woman who struggled with a performance minded husband who drank at night so she would shop and eat.  She did everything to please him even  shined his shoes I use to think WOW!  LOL

So these feelings were programed  into me.  Not worthy, shameful, guilt, unlovable, I just  wanted to run and hide, who would want me?etc.

Important to note here: Experiences connect theirselves to feelings and emotions. To prove this  think  of a past experience good or bad  you will start to feel that same feeling and emotion that you felt at that time it happened even though its in the past. Like magic through our thoughts  we can bring them to life.  So if we are living by an old program about ourselves when a situation presents itself to us now we out of habit recall up the old program and we will revert to a behavior as we did when we felt it before.  Do you see the pattern here? Its a cycle that will keep circling until we learn new awareness  and desire to be different to get different results. 

Example:  I struggled with relationships until I learned this information. Why? Long ago I took on the self image  I was unworthy of being respected, loved, accepted etc. and took on the attitude of I don't care and is  this as good as life is going to get. .
 
Then.....
A current situation would happen and the old program of familiar voices would bring up those past feelings and emotions because they were attached to those past experiences they would say remember me, and remember when you felt that before and  I am here to relieve your stress and  hurt so lets go eat ( note this can be any behavior) you say I shouldn't but I feel so bad I just need something to help me  so you give in.. Willpower will not work...  

So how do we change for the good we desire...

We have a mind that has a imagnation that can create. We have thoughts that can make anything feel real. We can make ourselves believe whatever we choose.  So we have to choose to make a NEW you! Trying to change the existing mold will make you nuts and think something is wrong with you. Stop beatng yourself up!

Now that you have new information ... Re create your self image by using the mind to create the good you desire for yourself for your body and your entire life. 

Continue to follow along the path of Release Your Weight and see if in the 90 days you don't see a change.

The Best to you always,
Cindy