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Before You Get Started

Hello! I’m Vivian, your mentor —

I’m going to explain a bit about what it takes to achieve your goal or dream, and what you must do to succeed. A plan will not work. You need a Vision that hones in on what matters, and you must be able to complete your Journey.

When you aim for a goal or dream that you have not attempted before, you cannot see what it takes to get there. You run into the unexpected, and are forced to change as you go. You are “transforming”, but without the right preparation or tools.

You need to use a transformative method — that is, learn as you go, add skills, grow in understanding, get inspired! . . . then realign it all by adjusting your concept and even your goal. And keep repeating that cycle, while staying on track to what matters.

That is a lot to do. But if you take one step at a time, you find one day that there are more steps behind you than ahead, and you reach a point where “discoveries” reduce and clarity emerges. All that learning, growing and adjusting has evolved into wisdom.

You see your Journey with new eyes. You are on track to your goal and dream, but now you can anticipate the path and move forward smoothly.

You can anticipate what was once unexpected, and you know how to course-correct to avoid problems and keep up the pace.

To make all of that possible, you need to get started with the right first steps — you need to create your Compass. That is your first essential tool, and you will use it often over the entire Journey.

To Get Started

You can create your Compass here at the Vision and Journey® library. Play the videos and apps on the Demo page, and download a PDF of your entries without signing in. To save your entries and get more mentoring, buy a library membership.

In the demo videos and apps, I guide you to set up your Compass and I mentor you in related insights. Each lesson can be absorbed in one sitting. For homework, I ask you to reflect on your situation and update the app for use in the next mentoring session.

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Play video 1: Find Your Perspective by clicking on the image or going to “1: Play the Video” on the Demo page.

To open the app, scroll down to “2: Try the App” on the Demo page, and click on “Show / Hide Find Your Perspective”.

Follow along with the mentoring videos and fill in the apps with your ideas and answers. This experience helps you better understand the lesson. You learn to hone in on what you want to achieve, and that increases your likelihood for success.

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Inspired Mentoring that Inspires

Vision and Journey® is an inspired mentoring system that itself invites inspiration. It began as a torrent of inspiration I received long ago, that had me typing at top speed to capture its entirety. There was no pausing, no searching for words — just the intensity of being one with a great power for 21 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 7 weeks.

I felt that what I received — a system for walking a Journey — had been entrusted to me to shape for a purpose I did not then know. I changed my path to care for it. For years, I delivered pilot tests of live training. I used it to guide transformation initiatives to their goal. The results were always remarkable. See What People Say.

I also combined the system with a fiction story I had been inspired to write — about people who want to create a better world. The story did not describe the better world but showed people using the system to transform themselves to be able to make the Journey. See my own transformation story at Video 4: Decide What Matters.

LIFE		Carrick Garvey
BUSINESS		Deverin Randall
WORLD		T.J. Lee
WORLD		Anastasia Silva
WORLD		Vanessa Alvares

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Vision and Journey® began as physical books, workbooks, tools and workshop recordings.

I am now creating an interactive digital library to mentor what the inspiration wanted humanity to learn. As the inspiration was huge, the library will be growing for years.

To get the most out of the Vision and Journey® library, follow my guidance in the mentoring videos. Do not analyze or wrack your brains trying to figure things out — that will shut down your creativity. Just relax, reflect, and invite the inspiration. Let the ideas come to you. I will show you how to turn your ideas into your own Vision and Journey.

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For Leaders, Managers and Coaches

The Vision and Journey® mentoring system is designed to enhance your ability to lead, manage, coach or collaborate with others to achieve a goal or dream.

The system and mentoring videos focus each step and decision, while the apps and downloadable PDFs make it easier to share emerging ideas with others even as you are shaping them.

The PDF’s are not reports — they hit only the key points. And they look just like the apps. That enables you to find what you’re looking for in the apps quickly, so you can get on with discussion and not lose focus while hunting around.

The mentoring system is strategic, tactical, and easy to understand. Everyone, across all roles, uses the same words and methods.

This is vital for transformations involving many different participants. Collaboration is more effective.

Everyone can follow the same path, describe it in the same way, easily assess where they are in the big picture, and clearly see how the transformation is moving overall.

Vision and Journey® hones the decision-making. You, as the leader, manager or coach, add the direct insights and relationship needed to help make each decision aim for what matters. That combination is what optimizes results.

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Prologue: Big Vision

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Garvey sighed. He was going away. He had dreams to achieve, personal stuff he had pushed aside to create Model County. He had to go after his dreams now, and get them all done while he was free from obligations.

But he had a big obstacle to overcome first: after years focused solely on work, he had a great business, and he was grateful . But he had no personal life to speak of!

He dreaded the thought of ending up at seventy like other men he knew — with no family, no friends, zero personal growth, and nothing but a big bank account to show for his entire life.

He had a clear example of that in the Old Man, who had found love too late in life to do anything about it.

Garvey didn’t see himself as that kind of guy. He wasn’t sure how his life had come to this. But he had to clear his head and figure out what mattered most and how to get it, while he still could. That was his first problem to solve.

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Randall knew little, except that the Old Man had happened upon the model of a better world when he created Model County.

The private papers the Old Man had left referred often to the “Better World”, but offered few details. They mainly cited evaluations, and a dramatic list of individual, societal and economic results.

Randall’s job was to create a smooth transition from the Old Man to himself — make sure the Vision flowed from old into new so the Journey never lost sight of the Big Vision. Could he do that? Hardly!

He could not answer basic questions: What matters most? What must you solve? What are you aiming for? How could he ask his troops to build what he could not see? They would fill in the gaps with Visions of their own, each aiming in a different direction.

Randall frowned. He did not know what had turned the old county into a “Better World”. All he had were questions where he should have a Big Vision. That was the immediate problem to solve. Tomorrow, preferably.

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T.J. Lee stared sadly, troubled by the Journey ahead. They would have to protect the Vision — something Fred used to do . They would have to drive forward without stepping off the path. Carrick had been brilliant at that. But Fred was gone and Carrick was about to retire.

T.J. Lee sighed. “The Journey must continue,” he said softly. “That is what matters most.”

It had been almost five generations. He had seen more of the Journey than most. And now the old folks were dwindling. Would the young ones keep going to the Big Vision?

He touched the seat of the Bentley, thinking of Fred Randall who, thankfully, had lived to see Model County completed. The Old Man had died happy that he had left a legacy worthy of his name.

Would the young ones be capable of picking up where he left off? Or would the Big Vision fade away, as it had done in the past. They had to find a way to pass it on — that was their age old problem to solve. And they had succeeded at it many times. But for once he could not see how to bring it about.

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As she crossed the room, Anastasia smiled warmly. To everyone, she was as gracious as ever. But inside, she felt very sad.

Fred Randall had been her friend and mentor. He had passed on his savvy to her, and made sure she was equipped to lead and run the Model County division without him.

For twenty years, they had discussed everything together — what it would look like when it became reality, precisely what to aim for, and in particular what mattered most. They had promised to keep it going, but now there was only one to carry that out.

“I miss you, Freddie,” thought Anastasia. But going it alone was a minor challenge. Many were looking to Anastasia to lead them, and now her path was uncertain with Deverin taking over. He might want her to step back while he made the decisions.

That was the key problem to solve, upon which so much depended: how to convince Deverin to let her guide him, so she could keep them all on track to the Big Vision? But she was used to walking into the unknown. And she would find a way.

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Vanessa leaned against the bench. After five generations, they had finally created the “Better World”. And though it was tiny — just the towns that made up Model County — it was proof that it could be done.

So they wanted to do it again. But could they repeat the success? Was it even possible, with so many people gone, or about to leave?

The Founders of Model County had come together over many years. Theirs was a rare confluence of talents, resources, persistence, and vision — not easy to bring together again. Now their numbers were declining fast.

That prompted an urgent problem to solve — they must retain the talent they had, and groom new talent. And do it now, because the biggest names were planning to move on, and the rest might follow in their wake. Then all the secrets they had spent decades hunting down and piecing together would be forgotten again.

And that led to the big, historical problem to solve. We cannot create a Better World if we keep starting over, thought Vanessa. We have to aim for the horizon, and keep going to the Visions Beyond.

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Great-Grandma Amalia had passed on the secrets of the Journey: ‘Create the Vision,’ she had said, ‘but always aim for the Big Vision. If you do that, every Vision will bring you closer, and one day you will reach a Better World.’

Then Amalia had taken her here, and they had gazed out at the patched rooftops and faded piers of the place they had picked to be the Model County. Nothing had moved in all that landscape. It had looked so sad, like a place with a broken heart, left behind and forgotten.

Vanessa had tried to see as far down the path as she could, to see how a place that was so sad could become happy again. But she had been too young to know what a better world would look like.

She had not understood then that it needed people to create better lives, businesses and communities, or that it had many problems to solve, or what it would take to solve them. She knew it now because she was looking at the result — and could see what to aim for. But she also knew how difficult it would be to repeat.

Before You Get Started

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Inspired Mentoring that Inspires

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For Leaders, Managers and Coaches

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Question and Answer

Do I need all the Apps to achieve my dreams?

When will other Apps be available?

How do I keep a record of my ideas?

Can I use the Apps for multiple projects?

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What happens to my data?

How secure is my data?

Can I get a refund if I cancel my membership?

“Create the Vision, but always aim for the Big Vision. If you do that, every Vision will bring you closer, and one day you will reach a Better World.”

— Amalia Cheung in The Vision and the Journey

Prologue: Big Vision Excerpt

Before You Get Started

To Get Started

Click to play video

Inspired Mentoring that Inspires

Click on a name,then on “Highlights” button

For Leaders, Managers and Coaches

Come Join Us!

Question and Answer

Do I need all the Apps to achieve my dreams?

When will other Apps be available?

How do I keep a record of my ideas?

Can I use the Apps for multiple projects?

What happens to my personal information?

What happens to my credit card information?

What happens to my data?

How secure is my data?

Can I get a refund if I cancel my membership?

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“Create the Vision, but always aim for the Big Vision. If you do that, every Vision will bring you closer, and one day you will reach a Better World.”

— Amalia Cheung in The Vision and the Journey

Prologue: Big Vision Excerpt

Click on a name,
then on “Highlights” button