Well, we made it! We have clarified the vision, release the blockages, aligned with outside forces that can support our success, and now we are ready to powerfully move forward with full confidence that we have what we need to create our next manifestation, which promises to bring greater levels of fulfillment, joy, and inevitably, it’s own set of lessons.

This is most certainly not the end of the journey, but another important stop along the way. Remember, each vision we feel drawn to and commit to realizing, helps us continue to shape and refine our sense of a bigger purpose we are here to fulfill, as long as we don’t quit.

We have now taken time to give thought to how we will balance pursuing our vision with the various moving parts and pieces of our lives, including relationships, financial commitments, and other priorities. Now we get the chance to look at how we activate our support system to rally around us, and consciously consider what strengths might compliment ours, and what energies and voices we can surround ourselves with that can help us maintain momentum as we take steps towards our desired objectives.

As we head into the Vision Balancing Step part of the process, we take a moment to recognize that we are part of an interconnected system of humans and that anything we dedicate ourselves towards pursuing has implications and impacts on different aspects of our lives.

When we were in our 20s, perhaps we could get a wild hare, and take off on a road trip across America with a friend on a week’s notice, but as we get into our 30s and 40s, we have often developed a lot more responsibilities and are juggling a few different priorities that can often feel they are competing with one another.

It is from here in the coaching process that we take a moment to pause, as we shift from honoring what internal alignment and intention we need to create around our visions and dreams, to aligning with the external forces that can be supportive in our efforts to accelerate our process.

In my own journey to building a life that honors the various aspects of who I am, where there is authenticity as well as alignment, one of the somewhat sneaky and non-sexy things they don’t tell you is that identifying and letting go of blockages is actually often more important than taking inspired action to “make it happen.”

So, we have our grand vision that we have given ourselves permission to name and own, without limits or constraints - how exciting!? I know it is easy to jump into the, well then “how” am I going to make this exciting and expansive dream come true!? But for now, I just want you to relish in the emotions that come up when you imagine this future reality. The deeper we allow ourselves to feel into that emotional reality, which is actually what we want more than the packaging, the quicker it will find its way to us.

The Vision Discovery Part of the journey is about having permission to hope and dream without the typical constraints that we get caught in by the ego mind and all its objections. Surely we can’t pursue our love of writing, because it won’t pay the bills. Surely we can't pursue living overseas, because we have a dog. Surely we can’t have a lover that we connect with spiritually and sexually, because we haven’t found that is possible…YET!

The Vision Context part of the journey is about considering what vision might make sense in this moment of your life to dedicate yourself towards, taking into consideration what milestones you have already overcome, and what might feel most alive for you in this very moment.

Sometimes we have achieved certain goals, only to realize it was just a stop along the way, not the end point, which can feel frustrating at times. But it is also important to recognize that all of our efforts to self-actualize, contribute, and live into our purpose are cumulative, and each step gets us farther along in finding the deepest truth that wants to be expressed uniquely through us in this lifetime.