Reclaiming Your Big Vision
Can you relate to feeling like your days are just a blur of tasks? Maybe you're chasing deadlines instead of your dreams, and your calendar is a reflection of everyone else's priorities instead of your own.
In this blog, I'm sharing how we can stop reacting and reconnect to what we truly want by reclaiming your big vision.
September is reset time. As I wrote in a previous blog, we can capitalize on our motivation and decide what we're going to keep, cut, and create in our lives. However, if we don't have a clear vision, or at least some idea of what our future vision could be, it will keep us small and drain our energy.
My Wake-Up Call
That's where I was. I realized there were just a lot of tasks on my calendar that had moved me away from the one-woman show I was writing. When we're in our big vision, it helps us stay inspired, intentional, and aligned. I felt like I was going in another direction, and it was an energy sucker.
The moment someone asked me how the show was going, I said to myself, "I'm just going to do it," and I put it back in my calendar. Ever since then, I've been re-inspired and motivated and feeling so much better.
When you hold that big vision front and center, you stop reacting to what's in your calendar and the things life is throwing at you, and you start creating.
Why Big Vision Matters
For women entrepreneurs and professionals, vision isn’t just about inspiration—it’s survival. In a world constantly pulling you in a thousand directions, filled with negativity, misplaced values, and relentless marketing telling you to buy more and do more, your vision becomes your anchor. Without it, it’s easy to get swept up in noise, comparison, and distraction.
When you lead from a clear vision, you create inspiration, intentionality, alignment, and resonance, the energizing sense of doing what’s truly right for you. The alternative is dissonance: that draining pull, the friction, the loss of energy and spark that comes when you’re off-course.
Here’s the truth: 92% of people never reach their goals because they don’t keep their vision visible and active. Only 8% do. The difference? They keep their vision front and center, something they can see, remember, and live by every day.
My Deeper Why
I had to step back and reconnect, not just with the fact that I’m writing a one-woman show, but with the deeper why behind it. My mission is simple: I want women to stop chasing “enough.”
We live in a culture that tells us we always need more: do more, be more, have more, achieve more. But it never ends. Instead of breakthroughs, we end up with breakdowns. We get overwhelmed, burn out, get sick, abandon the things we love, and drown in schedules that never let up. We keep chasing, but satisfaction never arrives. It’s like an itch you can never quite scratch.
Through this show, I want to gather women together and talk about this openly. To say out loud that it’s okay to stop. To let go of the expectations we’ve piled on ourselves. Because every time we raise the bar higher and higher, we only move further from the peace and fulfillment we crave.
Four Key Benefits of Having Your Big Vision Clear
1. Inspiration When the Work Feels Heavy
As part of going through this process. Sometimes the work is heavy and hard. It's not always easy to come up with the script, have difficult conversations, or write hard contracts.
Your vision reminds you it's all worth pushing through. My vision isn't just having the script written, but seeing myself on stage, talking to women afterward, and hearing about the impact months down the road. That vision helps me push through when I don't feel like writing or attending my writing class.
2. Decision Filtering
When you have a clear, big vision, it helps you filter decisions. It's so much easier to say “yes” or “no” to things when you're measuring them against your bigger goal.
I had to make tough decisions this past year. I was invited to co-chair a conference and be on multiple boards. For me, if I'm going to have time, space, and energy for this big vision, the timing of those amazing opportunities just isn't right now. It helped me know that those things weren't moving me in the right direction.
3. Alignment
Your business goals and life goals begin to reflect your personal values as they relate to your big vision. Your success will actually feel fulfilling because it's in alignment.
When you do things out of alignment with your personal values, that's where dissonance comes in. Even scrolling social media, while fun at the moment, isn't in alignment with moving toward your big vision (unless there's some strategy involved).
4. Sustainability
Every time I have a new idea, I get excited, but once I get into the actual work, attending classes, reading, coming up with ideas, reworking, and editing, it can feel hard.
You need your big vision to be so clear that it prevents burnout by focusing your energy on what really matters. I see so many people working toward big goals who lose momentum and energy because they're not living in that big vision. We want to be fueled by the clarity of that big vision, making it sustainable.
Why We Get Stuck
1. Constant Demands
We have clients, kids, and teams that are often louder than our inner voice, plus things happening in the world and with us personally. So many demands pull us away from the big vision.
2. Busyness Doesn't Equal Your Mission
Don't confuse being productive with being purposeful. I was busy and productive, getting things done, but they weren't purposeful toward my big vision.
3. Fear of Failure
If dreaming big feels risky, you'll feel safe just doing busy work. Dreams take risk, courage, and bold action. For me, it's not necessarily fear of full failure, but "If I book a theater, will people come?" That feels risky.
4. Loss of Visibility
Maybe you didn't write your vision down, so it faded into the background of your to-do list. That's what happened to me. Write it down and tell someone so it doesn't disappear.
What Happens When You Ignore Your Big Vision
1. You Lose Sight of Why You Started
There was probably a spark when you launched your business or started that new career. That spark gets dimmed under tasks and obligations.
2. Hamster Wheel Living
There's motion and busyness, but it doesn't have meaning. You're always busy but not fulfilled, productive but not purposeful.
3. Resentfulness
When your days don't reflect your dreams, you begin resenting your own work. I started resenting things not because they were bad, but because I wasn't stepping up to do what I was supposed to be doing.
4. Missed Opportunities
Without knowing your big vision, you'll say “yes” to things that pull you off track and won't even see the things that would move you forward. When you're in alignment with your big vision, you start seeing opportunities and new doors open.
5. That Little Voice Won't Shut Up
When you're not going toward your big vision, that little voice keeps talking. You'll feel emptiness and chase everything else to fill it. You'll have success and ask, "Is this it?" because the meaning isn't there.
I believe we've all been put on earth for a specific reason. When we don't move forward with our big vision, there's a little voice that continues, and there'll be emptiness.
What to Do Now
1. Write down your vision in one powerful sentence.
2. Place it somewhere you see daily:
- On your bathroom mirror where you brush your teeth
- As your phone screen saver
- On your planner or journal cover
3. Use it to filter every decision. Think of your calendar and decisions as a mirror of your vision right now. If they truly reflected your vision, what would that look like? Start making decisions accordingly.
Don't Have a Big Vision Yet?
If you're thinking, "Diane, I don't have a big vision," or if you feel off track and aren’t in alignment with your big vision, that’s ok, let's have a conversation. This is one of my specialties: unlocking your greatness, the purpose you're here for, and your next big vision.
Reach out to me at [email protected] and let me know you'd like to gain clarity on your vision and ignite that spark.
Until next time, stay dynamic!