{"id":661,"date":"2020-01-08T21:45:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T19:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zoezulu.wordpress.com\/?p=450"},"modified":"2020-06-25T19:44:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T17:44:50","slug":"2020-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/2020\/01\/08\/2020-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m a couple of days late but happy new year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It has been overplayed, this “2020 Vision” thing but that won’t stop me! Ever since I understood what the term 2020 vision meant I’ve been waiting to use that pun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such witty wordplay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time last year I was biting my fingernails, dreaming my results at one point<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/Zothileee\/status\/1078273051438006272?s=20<\/p>\n\n\n\n


thinking about the creative answers I’d written, the blanks I’d left on my answer script and trying to gauge whether I’d gotten the passes I wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After what felt like forever the results were released. I was in the clear. I was able to move to the next stage. Well I hadn’t thought that far ahead, I didn’t have a solid plan for that next stage. A level. I had tunnel vision, it hadn’t really clicked that life doesn’t end at IGCSE. My vision didn’t extend that far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was only a night before registration did I try to conjure up my A level combination and I started the year with 4 subjects instead of the HIGHLY RECOMMENDED 3 subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike my other years at school I had no drive or motivation because I didn’t envision what I wanted to achieve at the end of the academic year. I was walking around like this<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/netflix-horror-thriller-bird-box-1BFGFPPuIRTUPZFy4d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I get that A level is no walk in the park (it’s Advanced level after all) When you’re still learning the ropes you can expect low marks, and there’s a learning curve. But I could have done much better in the first half if I’d set targets and come up with a better strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having a vision, a goal, an objective can really help you to get the highest level of output possible out of your work. Not having a vision can leave you exhausted: you can be busy but ineffective. With no destination in mind or map in hand you can walk around in circles for hours without having achieved anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having no vision puts you on autopilot, you cease to be intentional and mindful. (Remember my previous post about how growth is intentional<\/a>) So progress and self-actualization become rather unlikely when you’re static.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Success doesn’t happen by accident, you have to see where you want to be and work towards moving in that direction. So I urge you to have a vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every piece of sophisticated machinery, every staggering building has blue prints <\/a>The Burj Khalifa<\/a> didn’t come about as a result of people milling about aimlessly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So don’t expect the best version of yourself to emerge out of thin air without having a plan on how to get there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, I strive to have a vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another really helpful thing is making a vision board<\/a>. I’ll delve into that later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having a vision, a goal, an objective can really help you to get the highest level of output possible out of your work. Not having a vision can leave you exhausted: you can be busy but ineffective. With no destination in mind or map in hand you can walk around in circles for hours without having achieved anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[105,132,138,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-new-year-new-me","8":"tag-time-management","9":"tag-vision","10":"tag-vision-board"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}