That whisper telling you there's something more? It's worth listening to - no matter where you are in your journey. Whether you're feeling stuck in your career, questioning your impact, or simply sensing there's more to explore - new possibilities are waiting to be discovered. Possibility Explorer: Nine Views Deep is the exercise that helped me transform over a decade of corporate success into the deeply purposeful work I do now, and it all starts with one simple but profound question. Give yourself an hour to explore what might emerge when you finally give yourself the space to dream bigger.
A one-hour transformational visioning exercise answering 9 questions to map new possibilities for impact.
This exact exercise is what started me down this path I'm on today, as the Founder of this company, The Visionry. In 2022, my family and I had hit rock bottom financially, spiritually, mentally, all the "ly's". The pandemic really took a toll on us. A few months before the pandemic began, I'd left my 9 to 5 to work for myself full time inside my retail consulting business, not knowing the whole world would come to a halt soon after. What I also didn't know was that retailers would start closing at rapid rates, and retail would be one of the worst hit industries - translating to a catastrophic financial loss in our household. During the middle of the year of being in lockdown, I also gave birth to my first child. One day in the midst of all this, I sat down at my desk in my office and just could not stop crying for the 8 hours I was there. The weight of everything had finally caught up to me and there was nothing at the time I could do to stop it.
Before I go on - if you can't tell by now, our partnership will be a raw one. One of my core values is around radical transparency and authenticity in business and in life, and you'll find that in our interactions.
To truly understand who I am, and this work that I do, I believe that the most powerful thing I can do is let you in.
Let you into my thoughts, my experiences, my "idea failures" (even though I don't believe in this word failure because I honestly view everything in life as a learning lesson) so you can understand where my perspective comes from.
Ok back to the story.
I was having this breakdown in my office, and so I immediately found a therapist to help me work through it all. While in this process, I cannot remember for the life of me who asked me this next question, but it was the spark for everything that followed.
I was asked, "If you could be anywhere in the world right now, and money wasn't an object / obstacle, where would you be and what would you be doing?".
This question stopped me dead in my tracks.
I froze.
But then after a minute or so, the vision started flowing. Everything I'd dreamed of in the past but had shoved down inside of me from having tunnel vision in survival mode started coming back to me.
As a new Mom, I'd also found myself saying often that everything, and nothing, had changed since giving birth, but I didn't fully understand what I even meant until this moment.
Here were just some of my answers to the powerful question above:
I'd be back in Florence, Italy (I spent a year there studying fashion abroad my junior year at The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)
Brainstorming new ideas for and with Clients
Making dinner alongside our private chef in our dream home
Hosting retreats for visioning, expanding palettes / mindsets, exploring more of yourself (because I believe you don't discover the depths of this until you're in an unfamiliar place)
Being flown out to be with Clients as they do "big things"
Mentoring young women of color
Hosting workshops at organizations to teach their leaders how to create the spaces and environment for teams to bring their authentic selves to work
After I felt like I'd exhausted every answer I had to this question, I asked myself 8 more questions to dig deeper.
This entire visioning exercise is what I now call The Possibility Explorer. These are my exercise results pictured below!
The Possibility Explorer Exercise
It took me a week or so to fill out all the questions, and about 2 years to fully understand what I meant with each line and execute it in a meaningful way.
For starters, because of this exercise, I went back to school to get my master's degree in creativity and innovation, started taking dance classes, got pregnant with my second child, went back to corporate, and started this business (3 things on this list I previously said I'd never do! I'll let you guess which ones).
The Possibility Explorer has been such a blessing in my life that I recreated it digitally for you, at no charge.
All it takes for you to complete it is two things: an open mind to believe in limitless possibilities and access to a computer to use the digital template. It's that simple.
I know it seems too easy to just answer these 9 questions, but if you truly take the time to think through your answers and open your eyes to what you write, you will visibly see some new future paths emerging for your life!
Everything in life and business doesn't have to be (nor should be) hard or complex to see meaningful results.
You just have to show up to do the exercise with zero expectations, goals, or premeditated thoughts, and just let the vision flow.
This visioning work will be the foundation for many of your most breakthrough ideas to emerge - and that you and I could partner on to bring to reality.
Once you do the exercise, please let me know if it unlocked anything for you like it did for me!
And if you don't feel that it does, I promise it will. DIG DEEPER.
Your Idea Partner, DeAnna
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