You Cannot Advance Beyond Your Vision

No one can advance beyond the vision that they have for their life. It doesn’t matter how much potential you have, how gorgeous you appear in someone else’s eyes, or how much opportunity surrounds you, if you can’t see it, you will never be it.

Someone somewhere might have the most glorious vision for your life. They could share it with you or even sing it to you. They could recite the vision in a poem. Your life will remain the same unless and until you develop your own vision of it. Do you get it now? Someone else’s vision for your life may be awesome, but it’s not enough. No matter how much a friend may believe that you belong in there, unless you can first see yourself in a better place, you will never experience that better place. You cannot advance beyond the vision that you have for your own life.

Success hinges on finding ways to do things better. When you believe in yourself, your mind will find ways to do things because “the eyes of the wise are in his head, but those of a fool are at the ends of the earth”. Great minds think like Von Braun who said “man belongs to where man wants to go”. People with no vision stick to tradition and are frozen in that state. If we get stuck in tradition, nothing else will grow as such is the inability of ice. New ideas never sprout on ice.

Walt Disney founded the world premier amusement park after he had been fired from his newspaper job because they said he lacked imagination. One thing about Walt Disney is that he believed in himself. This character was show-cased when he said "somehow I can't believe there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy and the greatest of these is Confidence. When you believe a thing, believe it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably."