The Importance of Having a Clear Vision to Succeed

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How clear is your vision? Your success in life, in many aspects, highly depends on the clarity of your vision. The clearer your vision, the more successful you become.

If you know where you stand and where you want to go in life, it's essential for you to have a clear vision because success comes to those with a clear vision. Without a clear vision, you block your success.

If you have a tunnel or blurry vision, take the opportunity to amplify it and clear it up to make sure that you achieve great things in life.

It's time for a change, you owe it to yourself. Make this year the year that propels you to get closer to fulfilling your vision. Make this year the year of the possible in your life, personally and professionally. 

How do you know if your vision is clear? Here's a helpful guide:

* You have goals

* You focus on your goals

* You work on your goals

* You get results

* Your beliefs and values are aligned with your goals

* You feel alive

* You believe in yourself, and others too

* You have a good attitude

* You like and love yourself

* You are driven

* You visualize what is not there yet

* You act and not react to things and to people

* You have trust, faith, and hope

* You see life in colors and not in just black or white

* You are open minded

* You see obstacles as opportunities for growth

* You seek wisdom and sound counsel

* You keep moving forward no matter what

* You adjust your goals as necessary

* You are courageous

* You step out of comfort zone

* You see the obvious and practice common sense

* You do not act on every idea you have

* You overcome your failures

* You are at peace with your past

* You live in the present

* You have a support system to rely on

* You are realistic

* You are aware of your strengths and your flaws

* You are determined to succeed

* You hold yourself accountable for your actions

* You keep on learning

* You pour your heart into what you do

* Your desire to succeed is greater than your fears

How to achieve your vision?

It all starts within you. Your desire to achieve your vision has to be greater than your fears. Nothing great happens magically, time and effort are required. In life, you reap what you sow.

You may have your own way, secret, formula, method, approach, or strategy to achieve your vision. What works for you may not work for others and vice versa. This is completely normal as you are unique; there isn't another you. 

I find the following "Vision Formula" practical:  Believe + Act + Achieve= Goal + Repeat= Vision

Refer to the "How do you know if your vision is clear?" section for more details. You may create your own process to achieve your vision. It is all about what works for you and how to make things happen. #BestAdvice

27 Quotes to Guide You to Achieve Your Vision

1. "When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic." Charles R. Swindoll

2. "Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion." Jack Welch

3. "All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose." Brian Tracy

4. "Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world." Joel A. Barker

5. "The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision." Helen Keller

6. "Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan." John C. Maxwell

7. "In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision." Dalai Lama

8. "The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs." Vance Havner

9. "It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams." Les Brown

10. "You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." Woodrow Wilson

11. "A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing." Charles M. Schwab

12. "The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity." Andrew Young

13. "When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority." Charles R. Swindoll

14. "Just keep on going and keep believing in your own original vision, no matter what odds you have to overcome. And especially don't be stopped by your own fears." Angelina Maccarone

15. "If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily." Jack Canfield

16. The most obvious things are often right there, but you don't think about them because you've narrowed your vision. Steven Levitt

17. "The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith." Ella Wheeler Wilcox

18. "Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others." Jonathan Swift

19. Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it. John C. Maxwell

20. "A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown." Denis Waitley

21. "Where there is no vision, the people perish." Proverbs 29:11 KJV

22. "Vision is the Source and hope of life. The greatest gift ever given to mankind is not the gift of sight, but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes; vision is a function of the heart. ‘Eyes that look are common, but eyes that see are rare.’ Nothing noble or noteworthy on earth was ever done without vision." Myles Munroe

23. "Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself." Arnold Schwarzenegger

24. "Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality." Warren Bennis

25. "Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown." Li Ka-shing

26. "Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe." Oprah Winfrey

27. "Where there is no vision, there is no hope." George Washington Carver