Stay in Touch with Your Vision

When you started Scrum for Your Life, one of the first things you did was create a Vision Statement. This brief description of your future described how you wanted your life to unfold; how you enVISIONed living every day. Through your vision, you could see yourself living your values and in doing so, finding deep joy. Then you connected those values to steps that were designed to move your life in the direction of your vision through actions taken in each Sprint. If you’re doing everything right, then you should be getting closer to your ideal.

To keep on track, it is important to revisit your Vision Statement often - at least at the beginning of each Sprint. And you should practice reading or reciting the summary of your vision every morning when you do your Scrum meeting. Having visual elements to support your vision will help it arrive faster, and recognizing the areas where you are already living your vision is extremely important. Too often we keep striving because we fail to stop and appreciate what we’ve achieved. Take some time during your Retrospective to do so.

And if your vision starts to feel wrong, that’s okay! It is part of the process. Go back and revise it, make the adjustments to your Backlog, and bring the new goals into your next Sprint.

Then you set out to achieve that vision by