This is Anne with your Coaching On The Go.

As you are going towards your vision, don’t forget about your core values.

Don’t forget about your foundation and your principles.

Don’t forget about what is important to you.

Sometimes on the way to a vision people forget what their target was.

They focus hard on one area, and they miss the big picture.

I’ll use this as an example: 

The last thing that occurred before I left my teaching career was I took a group of Native American students to Paris on a trip.

As I was creating this trip…

I got funding so nobody would have to pay any money.

Right when the deadline was gonna hit for registration some of the kids just weren’t coming through with their paperwork.

The parent chaperones weren’t coming through with their paperwork even though it was gonna be free.

I have ideas about things that are free because people don’t value them when they’re free, oftentimes.

But back to the story.

I jumped in and overrode things that people weren’t doing because I wanted it so much for them.

And I wanted to be the ONE that brought them on an amazing trip and created an amazing experience for them.

In my focus on the details there, I didn’t pay attention to the fact that I didn’t have enough buy-in.

These people weren’t coming up with their paperwork and things, they weren’t connected to the trip.

It wasn’t valuable to them.

So I overrode it and it ended up that these kids that I did that for weren’t very appreciative on the trip. 

Their behaviors weren’t conducive to having a good trip.

The trip ended up being the closure of my teaching career.

When I look back on it, I realize I had a vision for what I wanted to do at the school and what I wanted to do for Children and my vision wasn’t lining up with what the students wanted to do.

I was overriding and not paying attention.

It ended up shifting me out of my career, which I’m thankful for, I’m thankful for now, but I don’t do that anymore.

When I wanna help somebody or support somebody if they’re not enrolled in it, I’m not so presumptuous as to think I know better than they do about where they should go.

For people to benefit from the support of another, they have chosen it for themselves.

They have to be enrolled in it themselves.

That’s a story about losing focus.

My focus was on being a change agent.

It became about me wanting to be significant for having helped change a system.

Tony Robbins says that there’s always something in it for you, no matter how painful it is.

So I looked at that scenario after it was through, and I thought, “What was in it for me?”

I wanted to be this savior, this person who changed things for this group of people that was intelligent, connected in many ways, and beautiful and not receiving the opportunities in my opinion.

I learned a lot through this experience.

My teaching to you today is that when you’re in an experience are you neutral enough?

Are you taking the time to revisit your vision and path and make sure that your values, your principles, and your vision are still in alignment as you’re going through the process?

If you get too embedded in any one detail, before you realize it, you can be way off your course.

By anchoring your Vision to your values, you can create a sense of authenticity and purpose that resonates all the way through to your vision.

This doesn’t mean you’re ultimate vision can’t adjust and become more or slightly different as you go and learn.

It means that you don’t get pigeonholed in a place or a direction and
lose sight of your overarching vision.

Have a beautiful day.