Know Your Vision
Seek to know yourself. That means who you are and what you are meant to do in this side of heaven.
With that vision,, advance positively towards that dream. Do not fear people or ask for their approval when you are pursuing your unique dream. If it’s not unethical or harmful to others, you don’t need their permission to pursue it. Stay invested for the long haul on what God has called you to do. It’s always challenging for people who want short term pleasure to build what you are meant to in this world.
Know your vision and keep it yours.
If you can have one word that defines or describe your vision what would it be? Start seeking what that one word. It maybe more but keep it to a singular term for simplicity sake. Mine isn’t a word, its a letter “O”. O stands for orphans whom I have clearly heard from God to care and empower them. “O” is also an endearing term for anything I love and am connected with, like my O’car, my O’guitar and my O’things (which incidentally is the name of my social enterprise)
Focus On Strengths
Know your strength and use it profusely. When you do what you are good at, all the things you are not good at, surround yourself with people who can help you. Take advice but don’t take many opinions when many want to offer them to you to sharpen you. If opinions gets too overwhelming and is not helping, stay away. Keep with those who can add to your strengths. You should be known for your strength rather than your weaknesses. When you use your strength, you are recognising the gift that has been given to you by God. And being faithful to this gift is always a very good thing.
What is the one thing people say you are good at? What do you think you are good at? Mine is envisioning and building a team towards that vision. Knowing my strength helps me be clear of my role here. What about you?
Leverage and Love Failure
Failure is not a bad thing if you don’t allow it to remain one. Every failure is a big step forward towards your goal if you take the lesson and do not give up. It’s part of the process for you to know yourself and discover your strength (through knowing what you are not good at doing, what you like or don’t like). Failure really makes you wiser and you should not see it any other way. Leverage failure as a stepping stone to the next level makes you love failure when it happens. Failure also makes you human and soften the harsh journey of endless achieving. Being reflective and embrace people around you who will also fail makes the journey more human and hence greatly worthwhile.
With every move and transition I make, I know I have exhausted all possible way forward. It appears like a failure to move on. Maybe it is a failure, but I learn to move on with the lesson, knowing myself to keep focussing on my strength and leverage that failure.
It’s so worthwhile knowing myself and it’s given me great joy in the journey.
How about you?
Thanks HT – When I read it I felt more inspirational. In recent days I’m getting a lot of failures and people around me have lost their trust where it lead to them thinking that what ever I’ll do it always goes wrong. But no matter how many obstacles I get in the way I’m always taking my failures as a learning step towards my long term goal. Yes and knwoing yourself shows you your true strength and will power, This article will turn many people lives to positivity. Excellent and keep writing, cheers Mana.
Glad that the post help. You have to keep going for your goals and surround yourself with people who cares and will spur you on. All the best man!
A great post and I like about to be know by your strengths, and the other point when opinions get overwhelming to back away, since it may confuse and as that saying a “confused person does nothing”.
Thanks for this it is very helpful.
Phyllis
Thank you Phyllis. I wish you all the best in your venture!
SO important!!
It’s hard to move forward and improve in anything until we really understand ourselves.
Do you have any tips for finding your own vision?
Thanks for sharing
Mike
Thanks Mike for the comment. About your question, I would say to close your eyes and keep working on this question, “what problem will you be happy to solve for people in the world?”. Then in practical ways work yourself out of all the problems of your own to do that. Keep repeating this exercise and you’ll get there.
This is a great way to find yourself and true calling. I know for a fact that you don’t need anyone else’s permission to pursue your own dreams even though most people will find some kind of approval by their loved ones, when all they’re going to be is let down when nobody likes what they are doing! Great post, a true eye opener my friend.
Thanks Brandon for checking this article out!