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Everything needed to achieve fulfillment in our personal and professional lives is within us. The keys that open the door to achieving it are vision and intuition. That’s the opinion of Valerie Hausladen, author of Professional Destiny: Discover the Career You Were Born For (Edge Communication Group). There is no shortage of books and articles about vision and intuition. That’s because there are no definitive explanations of either topic. They’re elusive, hard to define, and open to new definitions and explanations.
Many of Hausladen’s insights are worth passing on. All greatness starts with a vision, she says. “A strong vision is the building block for everything, and without it we can’t possibly achieve mastery in our talent or profession.”
Here are some of the reasons Hausladen feels vision is so important:
Inspirational guide. It gives direction to your life and career.
Helps you make good decisions. With a clear vision, you’re less likely to be distracted and wander aimlessly from job to job. “If you get off track temporarily, it will be easier to remember your vision and get back on your path,” says Hausladen.
Motivator providing a sense of purpose. Pursuing dreams takes hard work and persistence. There are no free lunches when pursuing a dream, says Hausladen. The bigger the dream, the more challenges you’re likely to encounter. A strong vision is a propellant that helps overcome barriers, which are inevitable on that long road to goal achievement.
Visions change
Hausladen points out that visions can change. Entrepreneurs who made a difference in people’s lives altered their visions as organizational goals were achieved. Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates is a good example. Strong, powerful visions have guided Gates’ professional and personal lives.
When he started Microsoft, his vision was a “computer on every desk and in every home.” When Microsoft was launched in 1975, Gates dreamed that computers would be “ubiquitous and indispensable” and that “massive computer networks would put the world’s knowledge at our fingertips.”
As Gates’ visions were achieved, he replaced them with new ones. In 2000, they shifted from the corporate world to philanthropy. He and his wife started the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which totaled $33 billion in 2006.
Summing up, Hausladen says that a strong vision is memorable, concise, inspirational, simple, easily repeatable and relevant.
Once harnessed, intuition also acts as a navigation tool, which helps us make sound decisions. “We all have intuition, and if we quiet down and learn to tune in, we can train ourselves to hear it,” says Hausladen. “Intuition is a sense above the intellect. It is a deep, inexplicable knowing that happens in the moment.”
No one can predict when intuition will kick in, and it can’t be turned on or off. But you can learn to recognize it, says Hausladen. By paying attention, you become more attuned to it.
The payoff is that intuition can be an “unerring guide,” according to the author, because it teaches us from within.
Hausladen goes on to say that intuition can have a profound effect on our lives. It tells us who to trust, who is ethical, and who has our best interests at heart.
Think about listening to and interpreting those inner voices. The payoff can be a fulfilling career and a meaningful life.
Hausladen points out that intuition can be a vital asset for managers. It can help them make good managerial and hiring decisions.
Intuitive hiring
IT managers are always under pressure to hire superstars. Software companies are competing in a fiercely competitive environment. Every software developer and architect has enormous responsibility, and must be productive immediately. The best of the breed are paid top dollar because their sophisticated skills can add millions of dollars to organizations’ bottom line.
However, the superstars don’t always perform well in interviews, making the hiring manager’s job all the more difficult. How do they separate the wheat from the chaff — the superstars who turn in less-than-stellar interview performances from the glib, eloquent and engaging salesmen but mediocre performers?
Says Hausladen: “During the interviewing process, some people are polished interviewers and present themselves well, but then turn out to be much less impressive when they’re on the job. Others are less polished, but you have an inexplicable sense they will be great contributors.”
It all comes down to intuition — listening to that experienced, omniscient inner voice that knows exactly what to do.
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