What is your vision? Your dream? Everyone has one.
I heard an inspiring message on vision just the other day from, of all people, an expert in sales and marketing.
I absolutely detest the whole idea of having to sell anything. Consequently, I didn't expect to get a whole lot out of the presentation.
But the speaker said one thing in particular that struck me as quite profound.
She was talking about her work with different corporations and organizations...her job is to help them come up with their goals and then help them find ways to accomplish them.
She told us about all of the planning and brainstorming and work that goes into bringing a goal into fruition.
But here's the clincher that really got me. Arrested me in my seat.
She said, "Once a purpose has been decided upon, once a goal has been articulated, once a vision has been clearly defined, it will happen."
She paused, and it looked like she might actually cry.
"I've seen it happen time and time again," she continued, "and it's never failed.
Once that vision has been created, it will happen. It will. Every time."
Wow.
That's an idea that I keep stumbling across every time I turn around lately. It seems to be a universal truth that I'm only just now beginning to realize and understand.
Develop a vision. A purpose. A dream.
Believe in it.
And watch it happen.
Because it will.
I leave you with a couple of my favorite quotes:
"If a man advances confidently in the direction of his dreams to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
- Henry David Thoreau
Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence
