EMPOWERED VISION 02 - MYTHS ABOUT VISION

The future belongs to those who 

believe in the beauty of their dreams.

 ~Eleanor Roosevelt

One of the greatest problem of humanity; If not the greatest, is the problem of discovery; the problem of visioning! "For it is the glory of the Almighty God to hide the secret (the deep or uncommon) things of this world but it is the glory and honor of kings to find it (search it out). Proverbs 25:2

Finding vision in life is an assignment given to all.

MYTHS ABOUT VISION

1. Vision is Vision Statement: - Many have limited vision to just the writing down of vision statement(s). Vision is not just the writing of your vision statement or a set of visions on Paper but clear cut knowing & understanding of what you are to do and protecting it with your Life. Little wonder, many visions end on paper.
2.  (Quid crastina volveret ætas, Scire nefas homini.) Man is not allowed to know what will happen to-morrow: - The future is a world limited by ourselves. God has given us the ability & capacity to envision tomorrow (what is to come); we are only limited in our thinking/mind).
3.  (Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius). The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable: - there is nothing wrong about seeking the vision/future of anything because  If only our eyes can see beyond our today, then we won't suffer from impaired vision or being miserable. We won't sacrifice/destroy tomorrow today. The mind that cares about tomorrow, will not mortgage the future for things that expires now.
4. Man remains in the end what he started as in the beginning: - Vision changes any man's life except and unless you are unwilling to do something about your tomorrow today. Vision gives one's life a new meaning just as it did mine. God gave Abraham a new vision changing his life from Abram to Abraham. Abraham died at a ripe old age, an old man satisfied with life.

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EMPOWERED VISION 04 - VISION IS THE INSIGHT INTO WHAT IS NOT IN EXISTENCE

“I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision,”  “Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart. When a person doesn’t have a vision, they live by their eyes. That means we live by what we see. That’s one of the reasons why people are so depressed, and that’s why the future never becomes a reality". 
Dr. Munroe says.

Vision is the art of Conceiving ideas that are yet to exist.  Alan Kay says "The best way to predict the future is to invent it". I quite agree with Alan and i'll like to add that one of the greatest way to invent the future is to have a vision. There is nothing wrong if the things you see in your dreams or vision don't exist now, God is just revealing to you things that will make you or your business outstanding. You are conceiving in your vision the future. It is a good thing to be in the future long before others. Imagine if you are already living in the future of that business sector that you are involved in, imagine how relevant & sought after you will become. 

The owner of microsoft once said, their vision was to always be ahead of their customers, so that when their "customers wake up", microsoft will be there (waiting). You can have a vision that keeps you ahead of the pack; ahead of your industry, ahead of your customers, etc.

Vision gives you the edge in your field; vision gives you insight into what is not in existence. God gives us ideas,  He gives us ‘What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived’ – these are the things God has prepared for those who love him (according to 1 CORINTHIANS 2:9) – Some ideas that God gives you in the night, don't discard them. No matter how unimaginable they seem or how big they are, don't discard them. It may not make meaning now but tomorrow it will make sense. it may be the very idea that you need for your business success or for the success of your future, please don't discard it.

According to Barack Obama, We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it. Vision helps us to shape the future. Vision takes us into the future before we get there.

In closing, in  Daniel chapter 12, it was reveal to Daniel the things that will happen in the world long after Daniel had long died; the account also records in Daniel 12;4 "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased".

Has knowledge truly increased today or not? This is what Vision can do - it is the power of seeing what is not yet in existence.

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LESSONS FROM THE GREAT HOUDINI

He was a Hungarian-American illusionist and stunt performer, noted for his sensational escape acts.

He freed himself from jails, handcuffs, chains, ropes, and straitjackets, often while hanging from a rope in sight of street audiences. He would regularly escape from jails as a publicity stunt. He toured many major towns and cities, and managed to escape from the town or city jail in every case BUT THERE WAS A JAIL-LOCK HE COULDN'T BREAK/UNLOCK.

His ability and acclaimed successes in unlocking any handcuff in the world earned him the name "Harry Handcuff Houdini". Houdini became widely known as "The Handcuff King." Houdini drew tens of thousands of onlookers who brought city traffic to a halt.

For many years, he was the highest-paid performer in American vaudeville. For most of his         career. In 1923, Houdini became president of  America's oldest magic company.

Houdini was locked in handcuffs and leg-irons, and then nailed into the crate which was roped and weighed down with two hundred pounds of lead. The crate was then lowered into the water. Houdini escaped in 57 seconds. The crate was pulled to the surface and found still to be intact.

Houdini introduced his own original act, the milk can escape. In this act, Houdini was handcuffed and sealed inside an over-sized milk can filled with water and made his escape behind a curtain

Houdini in his buried-alive stunt was buried without a casket, in a pit of earth six feet deep. When his hand finally broke unto the surface, he fell unconscious and had to be pulled from the grave by his assistants.

Houdini remained in a sealed casket submerged in the swimming pool of New York's Hotel Shelton for one and a half hours.

Houdini escaped after being strapped in a straitjacket, sealed in a casket, and then buried in a large tank filled with sand.

Houdini was magic's greatest visionary.
He had created the richest and longest-surviving organization of magicians in the world.

BUT THERE WAS A JAIL-CELL HOUDINI COULDN’T BREAK
There is indeed a story that Houdini was once placed in a jail-cell where he failed to escape even though the cell door was unlocked! Houdini tried and failed to escape even after he used all his lock-picks on the lock. After several attempts, he gave up and was only able to get out only when he leaned on the door upon his exhaustion, at which point it opened, because the cell had never actually been locked in the first place; unknown to him!

Why did Houdini fail? - LESSONS
1. Houdini believed the jail door was locked in his mind although the door lock was never locked.
Hence he was trying to 'unlock' a lock which wasn't locked!
2. The very reason Houdini stayed trapped was because all he knew was about, were locked doors
3. In his final days, he optimistically held to a strong belief that he would recover, but his last words before dying were reportedly "I'm tired of fighting”.

TODAY’S LESSON
-   Many at times, many of our limitations are in our minds.
-   We ourselves place limitations on ourselves and on our dreams.
-   Many times because of how life has treated us we tend to adapt to that particular side that life has meted (dealt) to us.
- We often use the word ‘I’m tired of fighting’, whether it’s in spoken or unspoken words. We mostly don’t say it out loud but, our approach to life and our dreams show it that “we are tired of fighting”.
- We often fail to fight for our dreams or what we believe in.

Don’t be quick to give up.
Fight for your dream.
Fight for what you believe in.
Inject life into your dream.
Don't get use to staying down
Don't stay down, the ground is too crowded. Aim for the top.
Don't be Myopic (narrow-minded)
Don't place limitations on yourself nor on your dreams neither on your vision. have you seen a fish that can't swim, or a bird that can't naturally fly? You will succeed!
You can be anything you want to be.
Be the best in whatever you do.
Never look down on your small beginnings
Be thorough & shrewd (pay careful attention to details).
No knowledge is a waste, be open to learn.
The very idea you ignore may be the one that will make you.
Even when you are exhausted (when you've tried everything), there is still hope.

God has given you a dream that will not die.....

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David Adeleye 

(Team & Performance Motivator)