What are 4 Steps To Developing A Powerful Vision? – Part 1
February 17, 2011 by Growth Is Good
Filed under Self Development
A vision is something you create in your own mind. It is something you aspire to achieve. It is typically something greater than you. This vision is what drives you to achieve your dreams.
I heard a statement many years ago that went something like this: ‘If the mind of man can think it then he most surely will achieve it’. By having a vision you set forces in motion to help you achieve it. To the degree you can believe it and put energy to it is the degree it will be realized in your life.
Having a powerful vision and being passionate about it draws others to you and inspires them to help you achieve your vision or dream. The stronger your passion about your vision the quicker and more complete its realization will be.
How do you go about creating a powerful vision? And then when you have such a vision how do you inspire others to come under its influence?
The first step in the process is to plan and think ahead:
Think of the great dreamers of our time, like Walt Disney for example. He saw Disney world complete and operational in every detail many years before it opened its doors. He saw it in his mind and he worked to make it a reality. He did this by thinking, planning and breaking it down to bite size chunks of tasks and goals.
If you can dream, you can realize your goals. By thinking ahead and planning in your mind you are creating a vision. To achieve your dreams you must be specific and get into the details. You must not only see it, you must engage all 5 senses as specific as possible.
- You must see it in every detail
- You must feel how it will be when it comes into existence
- You must hear the sounds going on around it
- You must smell the smells in the air
- You must speak it and believe it
The second step is that you must think positively:
A positive mind set is absolutely essential. I can tell you many reasons why something cannot happen. However, it only takes one person to believe and know something could be possible and it will be created. If there is no positive thinking then there is no vision. And without a vision nothing will be achieved.
Make a decision, put emotion and heart into the decision. Decide that it can be realized and then go about creating that which you have dreamed.
The final two steps will be posted next week.
