{"id":63511,"date":"2025-06-23T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/?p=63511"},"modified":"2025-08-01T18:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:54:09","slug":"wrong-thinking-about-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/falsches-denken-ueber-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong thinking about vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kb-image63511_7d656b-f2 .kb-image-has-overlay:after{opacity:0.3;}<\/style>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image63511_7d656b-f2 size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/anastasia-petrova-xu2WYJek5AI-unsplash.webp\" class=\"kb-advanced-image-link\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/anastasia-petrova-xu2WYJek5AI-unsplash-1024x650.webp\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-63513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/anastasia-petrova-xu2WYJek5AI-unsplash-1024x650.webp 1024w, https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/anastasia-petrova-xu2WYJek5AI-unsplash-300x191.webp 300w, https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/anastasia-petrova-xu2WYJek5AI-unsplash-768x488.webp 768w, https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/anastasia-petrova-xu2WYJek5AI-unsplash-1536x976.webp 1536w, https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/anastasia-petrova-xu2WYJek5AI-unsplash-2048x1301.webp 2048w, https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/anastasia-petrova-xu2WYJek5AI-unsplash-18x12.webp 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\"Oh, if only I had a vision.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many people suffer from the fact that they cannot <em>the<\/em> have a great vision for their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just like people who knew from an early age that they wanted to become astronauts, nurses or world saviours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You think that <em>the<\/em> vision would make them happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many people overlook two important aspects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. <strong>Vision alone does not make you happy. <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena-mozhvilo-j06gLuKK0GM-unsplash.webp\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1559\" height=\"1169\" data-id=\"63517\" src=\"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena-mozhvilo-j06gLuKK0GM-unsplash-edited-1.webp\" class=\"wp-image-63517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena-mozhvilo-j06gLuKK0GM-unsplash-edited-1.webp 1559w, https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena-mozhvilo-j06gLuKK0GM-unsplash-edited-1-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena-mozhvilo-j06gLuKK0GM-unsplash-edited-1-1024x768.webp 1024w, https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena-mozhvilo-j06gLuKK0GM-unsplash-edited-1-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena-mozhvilo-j06gLuKK0GM-unsplash-edited-1-1536x1152.webp 1536w, https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/elena-mozhvilo-j06gLuKK0GM-unsplash-edited-1-16x12.webp 16w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1559px) 100vw, 1559px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A well-lived life makes you (usually relatively) happy. This includes all eight elements of life, not just one.<br><br>In my new coaching book I have written the following about this.<br>\"I just have to find my vision, then I'll be happy,\" I often hear.<br><br>Visions make you happy? Sorry. Not a chance. No single element of life alone has the power to make us happy.<br><br>People who pursue a certain vision very strongly can even have something driven, even manic.<br><br>For some visionaries, the vision bordered on madness - or became madness when the vision of the \"wonderful world\" was carried out on the backs of others.<br><br>Whether it was the ingenious builder of the pyramids, which were only possible with forced labour, or the architects of social ideologies that claimed millions of victims. <br><br>Violin maker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schleske.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Martin Schleske<\/a> dreams of standing in the workshop until he is 85 and becoming better than Stradivari.<br><br>He wants to find a unique, powerful and at the same time gentle sound.<br><br>He is realistic enough to know that every vocation also has its annoying and stressful aspects. <br><br>And that you can and must follow a vision - but should not expect happiness from it.<br><br>This is how he put it on LinkedIn in February 2025:<br><br><em>The horses have only been in my life for a very short time, three years. It's like an atomic explosion of love. I believe that the older you get, the more necessary it is to distinguish between vocation and source. Here in the workshop, I have my vocation, I also have the gift for it, and I realise: vocation can exhaust us, vocation can also exhaust us. We give who we are and what we have. And it lives from our dedication.<\/em><br><em>I also suffer from the unbelievable demands that musicians place on me in terms of what I should create for them. The workshop often spills over with such a big musician's soul, with all the dissatisfaction, and you almost drown in the expectations of the musicians.<\/em><br><em>And that is why I realise: I must not make my vocation the source. It must not be what feeds my soul, but rather my life's mission. I am grateful that heaven has given me the horses.<\/em><br><br>Do you know your calling? And do you have a source that tells you that you don't have to be perfect - and that strengthens you in everything?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. <strong>You probably already have large parts of your vision.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nathalia-segato-V9qc-JVKIBo-unsplash.webp\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1152\" data-id=\"63518\" src=\"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nathalia-segato-V9qc-JVKIBo-unsplash-edited.webp\" class=\"wp-image-63518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nathalia-segato-V9qc-JVKIBo-unsplash-edited.webp 1536w, https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nathalia-segato-V9qc-JVKIBo-unsplash-edited-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nathalia-segato-V9qc-JVKIBo-unsplash-edited-1024x768.webp 1024w, https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nathalia-segato-V9qc-JVKIBo-unsplash-edited-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nathalia-segato-V9qc-JVKIBo-unsplash-edited-16x12.webp 16w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I ask around, I often realise that most people know what is important to them and what they would like to do. And many are already doing it.<br>Nevertheless, they think they have to hit a precise point where they can then <em>the<\/em> Finding a vision.<br><br>I wrote in the book:<br><em>Nevertheless, for most of us, vocation is a field in which we can move rather than a point that we have to hit.<\/em><br>My talents lie, for example, in coaching and in summarising knowledge and making it practical.<br>Whether I do this in the form of books, seminars, courses or one-to-one meetings is almost irrelevant.<br><em>Within the broad field of coaching, writing and training, I live my vision.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So if you do not <em>the<\/em> vision, then that's not so bad.<br>Then just keep living for the many little things that are important to you. That is also vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to sort through the existing building blocks and bring order to your thoughts on the vision, I recommend the webinar <a href=\"https:\/\/down-to-earth.de\/shop\/webinar-lebensvision-deinen-weg-finden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Life vision<\/a> - and of course the chapter from the new <a href=\"https:\/\/down-to-earth.de\/coachingbuch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Coaching book<\/a>.<br>The book also shows you how you can coach and support others who are struggling with the topic of vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if you are one of those people who simply have too many good ideas and don't know where to start, then I recommend the webinar <a href=\"https:\/\/down-to-earth.de\/shop\/1000-ideen-und-kein-plan-ziele-entwickeln-wege-finden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">1000 ideas and no plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In any case, I hope that the pressure of the \"vision\" issue will go away - and that you can live with it in a more relaxed way.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vision alone does not make you happy.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1,1078],"tags":[1816,1786,1794],"class_list":["post-63511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lebensfreude-feiern-erlebnisse","category-leben-meistern-swing","category-vision-ziele-kreativitaet","tag-erfuellung","tag-lebensvision","tag-vision-finden"],"featured_image_data":{"id":63512,"url":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blog-Falsches-Denken-ueber-Vision-150x150.webp"},"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":18,"label":"Energie und Lebensfreude"},{"value":1,"label":"Leben meistern - 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