Where there is no vision
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Sometimes the hardest part of achieving something is in deciding what we want to do, become or where we want to go.
We can become trapped in analysis paralysis, fearful to take action because we don’t want to make a wrong move, or choose something we won’t like. It’s easy to play the negative game or what if…
One of the proverbs says that where there is no vision the people perish.
Even if we don’t perish, we wander aimlessly achieving very little. It’s been said that if you don’t know where you want to go any road will take you there.
In many ways a life is like a river, unless great effort is made to alter or halt its flow, it will take the course of least resistance, meandering through the landscape of life.
But if great effort is made, like in the construction of a dam, great power can be produced. Rivers don’t produce electricity left untouched, a life similarly will not yield greatness left to itself.
All human beings are born with a capacity and desire for improvement and progression. Granted some seem to lose this desire through neglect or other means, but for the vast majority of us this is true. It’s what we set goals and resolutions.
A vision however is more than a mere goal or resolution. Goals get us to our vision, but they are not the thing itself. Too many set goals and have no or an unclear or distorted vision which is why so many fail to achieve their goals.
Once a goal is connected with a clear vision, suddenly the goal has real purpose and our propensity to stick with and achieve our goals increases.
So the first questions we need to ask ourselves on our journey are where do we want to go? Who do we want to become? What do we want to accomplish? Only once these are firmly answered can we set effective goals to help us reach our vision.
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