Become A Visionary - Tapping Into The Artist In You
Copyright 2005 So-lu'shunz Management Services
Purpose is what you're created for. Mission is what you're meant
to do about it. Visions are the evidence.
We are all visionaries.
Anyone who has ever dreamed of a better way or a bigger brighter
future on a broader plain is a visionary. If you see a more
vibrant life in you than you are living, you're a visionary.
America is founded on our ability and our right to dream and
then bring those dreams to pass. We're all seeking the American
Dream and it's not a prescribed vision but assumes that each one
of us is able to dream his or her own future. America was
founded to cradle those dreams.
Visionary is a title we're a bit threatened by, because it is so
often ascribed to the celebrated among us, such greats as Martin
Luther King, Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, George Washington
Carver. And others with a different kind of vision such as Walt
Disney.
Some visionaries are so well known we no longer need their first
names to identify them, Edison, Bell, Gandhi, Pasteur,
Jefferson, Franklin. But to be threatened by their greatness is
to deny the greatness in you. Your name need not become a
household word in your lifetime for you to be a great visionary.
You need only to gain the tools to insure that each dream
manifests in a better reality
Vision is the ability to see what others are not (yet) able to
see; to create within oneself a new and better, bigger, brighter
reality. It is thinking outside and beyond and above the norm.
It is refusing to be harnessed or halted by convention or
opposition, distraction or disappointment. Any inability of the
visionary becomes inconsequential to the need for the vision to
come to pass. It requires a great deal of faith and an equal
degree of discomfort with the status quo.
A visionary is one who has learned the art of creating visions
and who is then so filled with his dream that he cannot help but
bring it to pass. We can all learn the art of creating visions,
of directing our dreams to a purposeful end.
Visionaries are fearless - they will face embarrassment,
derision and mockery. They are much like a woman in the final
stages of labor - the child must be born, regardless of the
circumstances. The process takes on a momentum all its own and
the visionary becomes accountable to the vision and to
facilitating its "delivery."
Have you ever felt so pregnant with a dream that you were
certain you would burst if it was not delivered into the world?
Then you are a visionary. Now what can you do to facilitate the
process? (See Birthing Your Dream available at
www.solushunz.com, Resource Articles)
Perhaps you're thinking you don't have world changing,
revolutionary dreams, so this couldn't possibly apply to you.
But any vision, of any size, nurtured and directed, once
realized will impact your world and deserves a chance to grow
and transform - that's what visions do.
The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is the
determination to bring the vision to pass. A dreamer is no less
creative, but is far less dedicated to the transformation of the
vision into reality.
A dreamer dreams to avoid reality. A visionary dreams to change
it.
Can we learn to dream creatively and with direction, or is this
a gift born into a select few? The good news is that anyone can
learn the skills necessary to create well-developed visions,
utilizing the unique gifts and talents we each possess, and
utilizing the resources at hand, bring them into the real world,
fully formed and ready to. This is a skill none of us can afford
to ignore, if we are dedicated to a better reality for ourselves
and those around us.