The Pioneers who founded America landed at Plymouth Rock full of vision. The first year they established a town, the next year they elected a town council. In their third year the town council proposed building a road eight kilometres out into the wilderness for westward expansion. But the townspeople criticised it as a waste of public funds. Amazing!
Once they had been able to see across oceans to new worlds, now they couldn’t see a few kilometres down the road. What happened? They failed to keep their vision alive. With the start of another financial year, how can you keep that from happening to you?
- Keep your vision before you at all times. Your vision is the road map for your life. So write it down, read it regularly and keep it before you at all times.
- Make sure the vision is yours, not somebody else’s. In the name of being ‘sensible’ or ‘practical’, many of us ignore our inner voice or our hearts desire. We ignore our gut feeling and make decisions based on other people’s feelings, or we undertake a career to please our parents, our spouses or others. That may make you dutiful, but it won’t make you successful. You cannot fulfil a vision that is not your own!
- Believe in yourself even when others don’t. You may succeed if nobody else believes in you, but you will never succeed if you don’t believe in yourself. No matter how old you are, always stay young at heart. Pearl S. Buck said, ‘The young do not know