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<blockquote>My Definite Chief Aim
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I, Bruce Lee, will be the first highest paid Oriental super star in the United States. In return I will give the most exciting performances and render the best of quality in the capacity of an actor. Starting 1970 I will achieve world fame and from then onward till the end of 1980 I will have in my possession $10,000,000. I will live the way I please and achieve inner harmony and happiness.
I, Bruce Lee, will be the first highest paid Oriental super star in the United States. In return I will give the most exciting performances and render the best of quality in the capacity of an actor. Starting 1970 I will achieve world fame and from then onward till the end of 1980 I will have in my possession $10,000,000. I will live the way I please and achieve inner harmony and happiness.

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Robert Fritz

Speak in the present tense. Backcasting

A good vision:

  • You can recognize immediately whether it's here or not
  • You can put it on a T-shirt, and your people would want to wear it

Vision Examples

Wikimedia Foundation

Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.

Food Allergies

File:Food Allergy Cartoon - Someday.jpeg

Read Susannah Fox's great blog post about this.

Afghanistan

Visions should be visual, and so photographs and drawings naturally make for great visions. These photographs are of Afghanistan in the 1960s, but they could easily be used as a compelling vision for the future.

Immigrant Rights

James Corden created this video as a reaction to Trump's immigrant travel ban. While it's meant as social commentary, it also paints a powerful vision — imagine if every immigrant had the same experience as Corden.

North Star

A North Star is a high-level, concrete goal that would be a major step forward in achieving the higher level vision. A North Star can act as a vision statement, but is generally more specific. All of the examples below are both North Stars and visions.

North Star Examples

Bruce Lee

Written when he was 28.

My Definite Chief Aim

I, Bruce Lee, will be the first highest paid Oriental super star in the United States. In return I will give the most exciting performances and render the best of quality in the capacity of an actor. Starting 1970 I will achieve world fame and from then onward till the end of 1980 I will have in my possession $10,000,000. I will live the way I please and achieve inner harmony and happiness.

Bruce Lee

Jan. 1969

Octavia Butler

File:Octavia Butler vision.jpg

Women's Rights

Postcard from 1920:

File:1920-womens-suffrage-postcard.png

Code2040

Our goal is to ensure that by the year 2040 — when the US will be majority Black and Latinx — we are proportionally represented in America's innovation economy as technologists, investors, thought leaders, and entrepreneurs.

See Also