Embrace your blue sky vision (Don't hide your big dream)

In a recent conversation with a friend about where we want to go in our respective career paths, I asked the question, "What's your blue sky vision?" That is to say, in your ideal world, where do you want to take this? What do you want it to become? What do you want to achieve? What role do you want to play? Who do you want to be?

While she shared that blue sky vision with me, she also admitted to being hesitant to share it with most people in case they laughed, or thought it was stupid, or that it was over-reaching.

My response to her blue sky vision was, "Why would you even bother doing all this if you didn't have that big dream?" I loved hearing about the potential she saw.

Far from being silly, for me that blue sky vision sets the stage. It defines what you'll even allow yourself to reach for. It shapes how you think about what you do and where you're going. It expands the scope of your perceptions of possibility. It helps you get beyond the nitty gritty of making things happen and draw inspiration from where things could go.

As with most things, that blue sky vision needs room to grow. Rather than hiding it and only sharing it with a select few, I say lead with it. Let it out into the open. Let it help define people's perceptions of who you are and where you're going. Let it help define your own perceptions of who you are and where you're going.

Not everyone will get it, and that's OK. As Bill Cosby once said, "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."  But if you don't let it out into the light, the blue sky vision is almost guaranteed to stay overcast.

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Curt Rosengren, Passion Catalyst ^TM

 

Comments

[Michael Werner]

Curt, good post. I'm really enjoying, and getting energized by, the recent direction you've taken with your blog here.

As for blue-sky visioning, I think that, in my own work with dream jobs, everything begins with that initial perception (the vision, the dream) of where you should be in the "perfect world."

Love what you're doing; keep 'er up.

DM Werner