Close your eyes for a minute…what do you see? It’s pitch black right? If you spend enough time with closed and still in your conscious state, trying to carry out the same activities you would normally do with your eyes opened, soon enough you start to feel lost, insecure and exposed. The eye is one of the most important senses of the human body, when something impairs your eyesight (vision), you loose your sense of awareness and direction. Your eyes send a series of images which is then processed by the brain, attaching the various names to the different faces and places. However the vision I’m talking about in this post is the vision of the image that is first sighted in the brain through the mind’s eyes before it is transformed to reality.
“the most powerful tools for learning are sight and sound” – what you see and what you hear. I grew up around people who believed so much in the vision that is first seen in the mind. These people are extraordinary thinkers and speakers and thus they often come up with ideas that match their level of intellect, ideas that are seldom enticing to the ordinary mind, while leaving the enlightened mind blown. With a good idea of how important having a vision is, I started to wonder why i should talk about my vision. I mean with all the stories that are circling about of people who told their housemates, friends and even family members about their visions and ideas and they either got their visions laughed at or had their ideas stolen. Since the beginning of time, people who have talked about their visions have suffered this same fate, but that hasn’t stopped people from going ahead and talking about their visions. Perhaps it’s the excitement, perhaps they are naive or perhaps they know something that those that keep shut about their visions don’t know.
I prepared a list of the reasons why you should talk about your vision:
1). What You See And What You Hear: seeing alone is not enough. You would ordinarily forget a face that has no name attached to it. Attaching words to what you see increases the chances that you’d run with your vision.
2). The Excitement: if your vision doesn’t excite you, you’re probably chasing the wrong vision. And I must add that you can’t be excited about something and keep quiet about it. If it excites you, you would want to make everyone around you feel that same excitement that you feel.
3). The Power Of Repetition At Work: if you tell enough people about your vision, you find out that it gets to a point where you start repeating yourself. Most people would say I hate repeating myself. The law of repetition states that repetition of the same thought or action soon turns into a habit. So now imagine turning your vision into a habit! Yeah I know…
4). Disciple Someone To Your Vision: the truth is you can’t do it on your own. Yeah I said it… you can’t… Now let it sink in. You need someone to key into your vision and be in tuned with you on the same frequency that you’re operating on. You either need an assistant, a facilitator or a cheerleader, depending on how big your vision is. You can’t and won’t recruit any disciple if you keep shut about your vision.
5). It’s For Your Own Good: you need to come to the consciousness of the reality that you talking about your vision is you helping yourself. In order to do that, you need to let go of the thought that the person you’re going to talk to about your vision is going to use your vision against you or even go as far as stealing it. This might sound shocking but if they want to steal it, let them. There’s something about originality. And just like a business tycoon is not really scared of losing all of his material wealth because he know that his real wealth is not in the cars or buildings that he owns, but in the knowledge of wealth creation that he has acquired overtime.
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