In today’s competitive environment, we need every advantage we can get. ViGOR is a science-based process for how to accelerate achieving your goals that promotes focus, growth, success and overcoming the obstacles that hold us back. What is commonly overlooked is that in order to achieve our goals and aspirations, we need to continue to grow as people. ViGOR is a visualization process by which you overcome the internal obstacles that prevent you from growing by mentally rehearsing the best response ahead of time. ViGOR stands for vision (Vi), goal (G), obstacle (O) and response (R). The practice of ViGOR connects us with our vision, which inspires, motivates and compels us to grow so we can achieve our goals. Vision and goals go hand in hand. For those who know their short-term goal, connecting to vision inspires and motivates. For those who have a vision, breaking it down into attainable goals and making it doable and practical empowers us. ViGOR starts with vision because it puts goals into context and helps to connect us to our “why.” Any vision that is inspiring and meaningful compels us to do what is necessary in order to achieve it. That means we are driven to develop skills, attitudes and habits that will help us create the success we need in order to achieve our vision. Put another way, we need to grow in order to achieve our most important goals and our vision can help motivate us to do just that. When we are working with ViGOR, we are zooming in on short-term goals that are practical and attainable, but also connected with our vision and larger goals. By a shorter term goal, we mean something that we want to achieve this week or this month, not something 5 or 10 years from now. These shorter term goals are what lead us to achieving our longer term goals, but for practicing ViGOR pick a short-term goal to focus on. Once you have identified your goal and how it connects to vision, you need to identify what internal obstacle might hold you back from that goal. External obstacles are what we most often see first, but they almost always come down to internal obstacles that stand in the way of our resourcefulness and creativity. Sir Richard Branson, who started both Virgin Records and Virgin Airlines, began his first business as a teenager. It was a magazine called “Student.” When the magazine started losing money he did not decide this “external” obstacle meant he would need to shut the magazine down. Branson remembered how resourceful his mother was at bringing money into the family home. He overcame the belief that this external obstacle meant the end of his magazine and drew on his inner resourcefulness. He knew students were into music, so he formed a mail-order record company and eventually called it Virgin Records. The rest is history. So all obstacles are essentially internal obstacles in one way or another. The greatest opportunity for growth comes in becoming aware of and overcoming these internal obstacles — things like limiting beliefs, bad habits like procrastination or challenging emotions like fear. Whether it is a belief that we are not worthy of great success, or a habit like distracting ourselves when we are working or a tendency to simmer in frustration when things don’t go our way, the first step is to become aware of the obstacle. We can’t become aware of these unless we step out of vision for a moment and focus on what could stop us from reaching the short-term goal that leads us to our vision. Once we become aware of it, then the power of ViGOR comes from developing and rehearsing a response plan to enact when the obstacle arises. With visualization, the brain experiences what we imagine as if it were real. Because of this we can mentally rehearse our response to an obstacle and in that way we can train the brain to respond the way we want to. With this, we maximize our success in moving toward our goal and we grow ourselves by getting past the obstacle. It empowers us to have a response planned out, mentally rehearsed and ready to go. It gives us a sense of confidence, knowing we can handle our challenges in the best possible way. This confidence shifts our attitude towards obstacles and allows us to show up as our best self in the most trying of times. All of this adds to our positivity and allows us to live as our empowered self. When we empower ourselves with ViGOR on a daily basis, we grow continuously and show up to each day at least 1% better than the day before. That compounding effect dramatically accelerates the attainment of our vision. For that reason we say EnVision’s ViGOR process dramatically accelerates achieving goals, enhances growth and gives us that competitive edge that assures our success.