1. Create Your Vision

2. “It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.”
- Helen Keller

3. Vision Requires Desire Careful and thoughtful planning Focus
You to see the end before you begin

4. Vision Provides You With:
Hope for your future
A roadmap for success

5. Creating Your Vision Step by Step
Step One: Take Inventory
Step Two: Use Your Imagination
Step Three: Set Goals
Step Four: Identifying Role Models and Mentors
Step Five: Staying Focused
Step Six: Enjoy the Journey

6. Step 1 – Take Inventory Note your talents, gifts, and abilities
Note what gives your life meaning and joy

7. Step 2 – Use Your Imagination
Look back at your list of talents, gifts, interests, and abilities
Think about how you could use these things to achieve your dream life?
I like to help others. This would help me in the medical field.

8. Step 3 – Setting Goals Realistic Meaningful Well Defined Exciting
Progressive
Fine Tuned
Acted Upon
Part of a healthy life

9. Step 4 – Identify Role Models and Mentors
A role model is someone you admire and would like to model parts of your life after
A mentor is someone who comes along side you and assists as needed

10. Step 5 – Staying Focused
When you focus on your goals, you will be less likely to be distracted by things that will keep you from those goals.

11. Step 6 – Enjoy the Journey
Achieving your goals may take years
Take time to smell the roses along the way

12. Silent Reading
Read pages in the book entitled Nine Steps to Success: Teens Can Make a Difference by Stedman Graham
Add to your Cornell Notes important details that were not covered in the previous slides

13. On Your Own