"There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder."  Ronald Reagan

Jack Welch, the former head of General Electric (who worked his way up from the shop floor to lead one of America’s most successful companies) says it this way, “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

So, what is your vision?  What do you see?  What do you think about that could be or should be?”  Before you make any plans spend time seeking vision.  Like John Lennon: IMAGINE.

Your Vision will be Challenged

I have seen all too frequently people with vision face serious opposition.  Vision has a way of making controlling people nervous and insecure people angry.  A most recent example of this is 15-year old Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot in the head by the Taliban, for promoting “Western thinking.”  Thankfully she recovered and  has courageously returned to school.  She is not alone. Only a few hundred years before scientists were threatened with retribution, even death, for envisioning “ridiculous” things like the earth being round, and that the sun was at the center of our solar system.  Author Chuck Swindoll asserts, “You haven’t really led until you have become familiar with the stinging barbs of the critic. For the leader, opposition is inevitable.”

What Vision Looks Like

Nolen Rollins, in his popular GPS Life Journey curriculum says, “Your vision is usually a series of descriptive (specific and clear) bullet points or statements, rather than one long narrative.”  Rollins uses the example of someone who felt called to mentor troubled teenage boys, and describes their vision bullet points like this:

• I envision being trained on how to mentor young men.
• I envision building strong, healthy relationships with troubled teenage boys.
• I envision a multiplying effect as many of these boys will mentor others in the future.