- Proverbs 29 v 18
A vision is everything, anyone who has ever created anything, made something happen, lived their dreams…they all had a vision they were following. Read their biographies, and in amongst the text describing the route to success there will be a sentence that mentions their vision. They always ‘saw’ themselves doing whatever it was that they came to be doing.
Vision doesn’t quite explain it though, it is more than just seeing. Seeing is the stuff of daydreams and that is exactly how they remain, a day dream. Dreamers sit and view an image, like they’re watching a movie, wistful about how lovely it would be if….and then follow it up with something like “ahhh one day” leaving an unfinished sentence that silently tags on such lines as “when I’m rich” “when the right partner has turned up” “when the circumstances are right.” Unwittingly explaining to others and worse still to themselves, why they haven’t, can’t or won’t be setting off on a journey to their hearts desire, staying put to just exist until their mortal departure date arrives.
A vision is a dream with purpose. We are in the vision, not just voyeurs of it. Our experience of seeing and feeling is as if it’s really happening. We see, we hear, we feel, it invokes emotion, excitement, and yes, a little fear as we ask “dare I?” We see our vision through to its conclusion where we are triumphant, our desire has happened, and we know how that and all following moments feel, we feel it deep within. Now it has started to become a destination. A vision is the thing that sets coincidences in to motion, it makes things happen, it evokes intention and intention rules the Universe.
A vision, like all living things needs to be nurtured in order to keep it alive, if it is a vision that is in alignment with your authentic self, your spirit, then it will never die, but it can get buried. Buried in the minutia of day to day living in a modern world and once out of sight it is then out of mind, hiding it’s bright and leading light. We then have lost our life compass and will wonder why and how we got so terribly off track. We bury it by failing to keep revisiting our vision and giving it our attention. Our attention is its life breath just as air is ours.
Visit your vision daily, the more frequently the better. Whenever, you find yourself getting lost, forgetting why you are doing what it is you are doing then go to your vision, to remind yourself why, and to give it energy, you feed it and it feeds you. You then move towards it, one step at a time, positively and progressively, and you will, like Mary Poppins, eventually find you have jumped in to your own picture. Never underestimate the power of a vision to make things happen.
