5. Becoming Your Vision: Aligning Your Behavior

You have to know what sparks the light in you so that you, in your own way, can illuminate the world.

Oprah Winfrey

Your VSEM is your plan of record or the architectural drawing for your career. Your vision is framed, and you can see the overall shape of what you’re building. Within your VSEM you have identified key actions that will help you get where you want to be. This is how you began to put the interior together. Now, of course, comes the difficult part, making the drawing come to life! To do that, you have to start taking the actions and behaving in the manner you intended in order to become your vision. Aligning your behaviors to your VSEM is all about accountability and taking the journey ...

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