You can improve your vision in a much more important and powerful way than laser surgery.
You may be more prepared to be a visionary leader than you think. That depends on what you see, and what you do with what you see.
One employee of mine refused to talk to me unless I was looking her in the eye and following her movements. I am a champion daydreamer. If I were in school today I would be given drugs to make me pay attention.
I flunked first grade–flat out flunked it. That takes a lot of doing. I was brought in to see a psychologist who did all kinds of tests with me. She told my mom and the school that I was a pretty bright kid. I just hadn’t figured out what school was about yet. So they sent me on to second grade. My mom once told me that the first level I really passed was fifth grade. I’m not sure I passed then.
Life without dreams is a prison of quiet desperation. A slim giant of a man I know was in the Bataan death march and then spent all of WWII in a Japanese coal mine. I believe the only thing that kept him alive was his dreams. They tortured his body, but he lived in his mind. In hell he was free in a way many people never are. He lived.
Take the time to dream. Please, dream of your family’s future. Dream of what you can become. Take the time to explore in your mind what just might be. The future is not a series of decisions we make about pathways presented before us. We build our own future from the vision we have of where we can go.
Some men can see the future more clearly than their own reflection in a mirror. They think about that future. They live in that future. Somehow the world molds itself to their vision. That vision changes a little with every twist of circumstance, but the dream’s architecture, the purpose and meaning do not change. For a man of great vision, life is revealed and changed as he passes through it to the future. He acts on his great visions.
A vision without action is called a daydream, but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare. (Sorenson)
The only thing keeping you from being a visionary is your ability to truly believe in your dreams and then act on them. See the future as you would like it to be. Take a few minutes every single day to purposely dream about the future, about a greater future. Dreaming every single day is the key. This is where a visionary’s transformational power comes from: daily dreams, then living according to those dreams. As you dream every day, watch the world shift around you and accommodates itself to your vision as you act.
Something To Do Today
Set aside time in your schedule every single day for dreaming. Take a week and decide what the future should hold. Make sure that your relationships and family are primary in that dream. Write it down. Refer to it regularly. It will change your life.
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