Vision Board and Career Success Strategy

This assignment analyzes the relationship between a personal vision board and achieving career success. It delves into the 'kaleidoscope' strategy, which involves focusing on four key areas: achievement, significance, happiness, and legacy. The author uses personal examples to illustrate how this approach can be applied to professional development and skill enhancement through practices like training, feedback collection, and setting SMART goals.

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My Vision Board for My Career Success
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My Vision Board for My Career Success
A vision board refers to a technique applied to assist in clarification, concentration, and
maintenance of focus on a particular life goal. Essentially, the vision board is a collection of
trinkets, sketches, and photographs that reflects the future dreams and goals of an individual. The
concept of vision board is directly linked to collaging idea. However, it is applied to a specific
are of the individual’s life such as a successful career. Nonetheless, the limits of vision board are
limitless.
Currently, I work as a business executive for a medium sized company in Melbourne city.
Also, I work part-time as a venture capital strategist. All these activities pose a significant
challenge to my success both at a career and family level. My aim in life is to establish a
successful career that will result in happiness and satisfaction in all aspects of my life. To help
achieve all these, I have designed the following vision board to illuminate my career path.
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My Vision Analysis
Main Themes in My Vision Board.
The theme of career success forms the core theme of my vision board. Pursuing success
can be compared to aiming to shoot a chain of moving targets. Each time one hits a given target,
others pop up from a different direction. Just when one has attained a particular goal, one gets
pressure to exert more efforts, earn more money, or even possess a new property. Examples and
standards of ‘achievement’ shifts constantly, while at the same time, the social and technological
changes regularly to pose new challenges to concur. Professionals in various traditional
positions found themselves under satisfied, overworked and totally vulnerable. Looking at my
vision board, am reminded that true success should be able to give satisfaction in all other
aspects of life such as being with a healthy family, friends, and community.
A good number of individuals still think that career success requires an approach of the
winner-takes-all. Their belief is constructed on the notion that success is determined by the
amount of energy one puts in achieving a specific goal. The goal to be achieved may range from
focusing on a particular job, becoming the best soccer fan in the community, or being a model
husband in town. Nonetheless, no matter how humble a particular goal is, it cannot fully satisfy
the complex desires and needs of an individual. As the vision board shows, true career success
encompasses a lot.
Luckily, success does not have to be viewed as a tug of war that is one-dimensional
between happiness and achievement. Am looking forward to develop in the right direction, with
my ideals of the good life for myself, my family, and my community. Over time, I have studied

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several high achievers who were able to realize that long-term success, provides a positive
difference, and along the way enjoyed the process. Most successful individuals have attained
their success since they had a wider understanding of what success encompasses.
Kaleidoscope Image (Happiness, Significance, Achievement and Legacy Themes)
The vision board encompasses a kaleidoscope (image at far left). Success strategy that is
effective can be likened to Kaleidoscope. Kaleidoscope is a simple apparatus that is mechanical
comprising of a mirror, tube, and lens that insulates different chambers. Every chamber supports
glass pieces that continuously shifts upon the tubes movement. With my dream of a successful
life, I try to envision a different type of kaleidoscope. This kind of kaleidoscope also comprises
of four chambers. These four chambers are achievement, significance, happiness, and legacy
with an addition of a brilliant glass pieces, aims that are sought of fulfilled. As time progress, this
patter grows unique, richer and richer. In this context, success is all about pattern, movement,
choice and structure that embraces distinct activities together. Just like a kaleidoscope, one has to
hold this pattern against the light. Through, constant assessment of the image created in the four
chamber, one can easily spot the holes. The holes are the place that will need more consideration
in my activities and be sure that I will interrupt other tasks to attend to those activities.
Meanwhile, the remaining chips will be sufficient, but will not be enough for the rest of my life.
After compiling my vision board, I realized that people who attain long-term success
depend on kaleidoscope strategy in order to structure their ambitions. They are constantly
creating new chips in each of the four chamber and selecting their actions with an aim that the
image will show an attractive proportionality. Having deep satisfaction in the four categories
gives these achievers extra strength, that they are unable to turn away from one category when

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the other one requires more attention. The satisfaction ensures that they do not walk away from a
certain time until they are confident of its success. They hate the term that this is enough. They
acknowledge the significance of establishing their own high standards for what they can term as
enough and not laying low to the infinite lure of more.
As an exhausted business capitalist, I need to understand that rising back my
accomplishment aims is a section of the larger picture of development in the other categories,
instead of paralyzing opportunity of loss and achieving nothing. This kaleidoscope vision will
allow for cultivation of emotional relationship I desire to have with my family. This encourages
me not to give up my desired achievement and readjust the amount of effects I put in that
category. To attain this, I need to be more creative and versatile and exhibit more energy than I
am now.
Furthermore, as an executive managing a challenging product rollout dilemma in terms of
temporary versus lasting achievement. I would perform better in re-structuring my challenges in
terms of legacy: What type of platform would I be establishing for the prosperity of this product
and that of forthcoming managers in the organization if I chose to distribute unsatisfactory
products? Reflecting about the issue from this viewpoint helps in clarifying my priorities. Rather
than feeling that way I decided to make a trade-off in a negative sense, even though I could still
take a positive perspective of what required the most attention and what was worth my sacrifice.
Self-Recreation Theme
To attain career success, it is important for one to recreate him/herself. The recreation can
be attained through practicing, training, and collection of feedback. This is shown in my vision

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by the image in bold about Creating yourself. The most important issue in my career
development is improvement of my skills. The skills I decide to work on are the skills that I will
require in building my future success, or are the necessary skills in my present training like
writing skill and research skills. If only I could focus on the improvement of one to three specific
skills before the end of this year, then do the same in every year of my training, then am
confident that I will be well prepared for my future career.
Establishing skill-development goals is like devising my own curriculum. In a class, an
educator determines what material to be covered, offers training, allows the students to practice
the course, and then examines their learning skills and ability through examination. In the same
manner, for every skill that I intend to improve, I establish SMART (Specific, Measurable,
Achievable, Realistic, and Timely) goals for that skill. I determine how to be trained, make sure I
practice the skill and ensure I obtain feedback. For instance, for me to achieve my desire of
becoming a more attractive business executive, I have to go to a workshop that teaches how one
can become a business leader that is strong. In order to enhance this skill development, I will
have to put the techniques in practice through giving talks to students and even people, holding
seminars, presenting at conferences and group meeting. Afterwards, I can obtain feedback from
trustworthy colleagues or anyone who will be available and willing to provide the feedback.
Conclusion and Comments on activity
Pursuing success can be compared to aiming to shoot a chain of moving targets. To attain
career success, it is important for one to recreate him/herself. The recreation can be attained

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through practicing, training, and collection of feedback. Success strategy that is effective can be
likened to Kaleidoscope. This kind of kaleidoscope comprises of four chambers. These four
chambers are achievement, significance, happiness, and legacy with an addition of a brilliant
glass pieces. After compiling my vision board, I realized that people who attain long-term
success depend on kaleidoscope strategy in order to structure their ambitions. They are
constantly creating new chips in each of the four chamber and selecting their actions with an aim
that the image will show an attractive proportionality.

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