my vision and my life feels hollow

[rd5555]

I've found my life purpose and my top values in life, but when I integrate them into a vision, my vision feels very hollow, it doesn't move me or motivate me.

I've got a lot of aspirational things in my vision like having a big impact on the world, emotional mastery etc, becoming a millionaire etc, but i'm not getting the powerful motivation that I intuit I should be getting. This is the case both for visualization and vision

This is something i've been struggling with for about 8 months and it's really affecting me psychologically.

Does anyone have any advice?

 

thank you

 

 

[Snader]

The vision might be too high up in the clouds so that the contrast between the vision and your current life is too big.

Sounds to me like you are trying to take too big of a bit at once. Make your time horizon longer. Acknowledge the amount of work that is needed and the time it will take. Cut the vision in smaller, more practical goals, which are easier to accomplish, but are still aligned with your values.

[kinesin]

@rd5555  Stop looking forward, abandon your 'vision' and bring your awareness to the here and now.  Those feelings of satisfaction and peace which you imagine you'll have one day after achieving your vision, you can experience them right now.

[Flowerfaeiry]

What is your life purpose?

[rd5555]

@kinesin I need a compelling vision to keep me motivated and on track  

 

 

[rd5555]

@Flowerfaeiry personal development, discovering the most resourceful ways to think and act, and being able to provide these insights to other people. 

[Flowerfaeiry]

@rd5555 in any specific domain or just general discovering resourceful ways to think? It might be helpful to get more specific. Who do you want to help, what is your speciality, how do you want provide those insights?

[rd5555]

@Flowerfaeiry main fields are: confidence, health, emotions, productivity, motivation (once i've began to get the vision part down) and just foundational topics like delayed gratification etc. Mainly the younger generation who have the rest of their youth to use these mindsets and behaviours, but also older people too. Through online articles and online courses 

 

 

[Flowerfaeiry]

@rd5555 You have to keep exploring and following the little things that give you sparks here and there. 

[kinesin]

39 minutes ago, rd5555 said:

@kinesin I need a compelling vision to keep me motivated and on track 

That's nothing more than a belief.  Start a daily meditation practice and you'll start to realise that wellbeing is always available from within, and that you don't have to be dependent on external factors.

[JonasVE12]

Maybe the question/framing does not fit your situation perfectly. I think the vision itself does not feel off? Maybe it's you. Maybe you feel hollow, and you try to fill in that gap through creating a powerful vision that you idealize? Then if the drive/motivation lacks pursuing the vision, of course it is more about the end goal, rather than the proces which is what is most important. You can bring in a lot of nuance, but I think the most important thing to understand is that you might want to explore your emotional development and emotional honesty first and if you see there are some things that need work, you might want to prioritize that before you create a grand and powerful vision that you end up idealizing. The vision will come by itself if you get more in touch with your heart. It's all about connection to feeling that will make you excited and motivated. You want to live from your turn-on and natural motivation. If you have the feeling of being 'stuck', there is emotional work to be done. Everyone has their authentic inspiration and motivation that moves them forward from when they were a child. Then we supress en repress emotions and we get into fear, apathy, shame and things seem to feel hollow here. There's a lot of desire in this emotional state. Also a lot of resistance to experiences and positive emotions.

You can start doing things in the now that you feel inspired to do from your emotional centers and then see the contrast of true enjoyment and the hollowness of empty pursuits. And if you feel like that inspired energy gets blocked, ask yourself why. Do you feel blocked doing the things you truly want to do or would enjoy to do?

[rd5555]

@JonasVE12 thank you, I think you're exactly right. It's not the vision that feels hollow, it's me that feels hollow. I think that I have some limiting beliefs around vision, because i've been failing for the last 8 months at trying to reconnect with my vision, that's lack of belief from my past experiences always occurs. 

When I think back, before I was intentionally trying to vision, I used to be able to vision a lot, whereas now that i'm trying to force myself to reconnect with my vision, i struggle