Creating a Lifestyle Wellness Vision

A wellness vision helps you map out desired behavior changes and helps you find the energy
and motivation to move forward. It gives you the opportunity to dream about the possibilities
that lay ahead. The more that these dreams are expansive, challenging, and exciting, the
more they beckon you to strive for your best self. Creating a vision makes it easier to identify
appropriate long-term and short-term goals.
First, is the discover phase. Draw upon your best experiences and identify core values.
! Best Experience. Think of a time when you felt most alive and engaged. What made it
so exciting? Who was there? Think of the experience in detail.
! Core Values: Think about the things you value most deeply, things about yourself,
your relationships, and your work. Without being modest, who are you when you are
at your best?
! Generative Conditions: Think about the core, life-giving factors in your experience.
Who are the key ingredients, both internal and external, that enable you to be at your
best and have fun?
Your wellness vision should tell you why you want to accomplish certain goals and why the
hard work and effort to accomplish your goal is worth it. Your answers to these why
questions can include some general elements (feeling good about yourself, being around
for your family, being a good role model, having the career or relationship you really want,
etc), but as much as possible, the big picture you paint here should have specific details. You
can generate this detail by asking yourself questions like:
1. What do I want my life to look like in (1, 5, or 10) years? Explain what you want to be
doing, the roles you want to take on, how you want to see yourself, etc.
2. What would my ideal days look like? Explain why youd look forward to getting up in
the morning, the first think youd do every day, who youd spend time with, the good
experiences you want to have each day, how youd face challenges in your daily life,
etc.
3. What personal values do I want my daily life to express and reflect? Include how youd
rank these values if you had to choose between them at any given moment.
Key Components to Masterful Visions
! Values (Who do I want to be?)
! Outcomes (What results do I want to achieve?)
! Behaviors (What activities do I want to do consistently?)
! Motivators (Why does this matter a lot to me right now?)
! Strengths (What strengths, talents, and abilities will I draw upon?)
! Challenges (What challenges will I overcome?)
! Supports (What support team and structures will I put in place?)
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Anderson D. Write Your Vision Statement for Weight Loss. Sparkpeople, Inc. 2013.

Mark the values that speak most to you.

Accountability
Accuracy
Achievement
Adventurousness
Altruism
Ambition
Assertiveness
Balance
Being the best
Belonging
Boldness
Calmness
Carefulness
Challenge
Cheerfulness
Clear-mindedness
Commitment
Community
Compassion
Competitiveness
Consistency
Contentment
Continuous
Improvement
Contribution
Control
Cooperation
Correctness
Courtesy
Creativity
Decisiveness
Democraticness
Dependability
Determination
Devoutness
Diligence

Discipline
Discretion
Diversity
Dynamism
Economy
Effectiveness
Efficiency
Elegance
Empathy
Enjoyment
Enthusiasm
Equality
Excellence
Excitement
Expertise
Exploration
Expressiveness
Fairness
Faith
Family-orientedness
Fidelity
Fitness
Fluency
Focus
Freedom
Fun
Generosity
Goodness
Grace
Growth
Happiness
Hard Work
Health
Helping Society
Holiness
Honesty

Honor
Humility
Independence
Ingenuity
Inner harmony
Inquisitiveness
Insightfulness
Intelligence
Intellectual status
Intuition
Joy
Justice
Leadership
Legacy
Love
Loyalty
Making a difference
Mastery
Merit
Obedience
Openness
Order
Originality
Patriotism
Perfection
Piety
Positivity
Practicality
Preparedness
Professionalism
Prudence
Quality-orientation
Reliability
Resourcefulness
Restraint
Results-oriented

What are your top 4 values?

Rigor
Security
Self-actualization
Self-control
Selflessness
Self-reliance
Sensitivity
Serenity
Service
Shrewdness
Simplicity
Soundness
Speed
Spontaneity
Stability
Strategic
Strength
Structure
Success
Support
Teamwork
Temperance
Thankfulness
Thoroughness
Thoughtfulness
Timeliness
Tolerance
Traditionalism
Trustworthiness
Truth-seeking
Understanding
Uniqueness
Unity
Usefulness
Vision
Vitality

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Vision