| This is the fourth of a series of articles based on Dr. Sanna's book, Breakthrough Thinking. |
One of the primary factors that distinguishes dynamic practice teams from pedestrian ones is the clearness of their vision. High-performance practices have a clear picture of what they are creating together. High-performance practices are excited about their purpose and their common vision.
Why have a vision? Where your mind goes, everything else follows! The Law of Expectation teaches: You must know what it is that you want to accomplish before the universe can manifest your desires. You alone are responsible for kindling the internal fire that fuels your passion. And if, for some reason, you don't feel the fire right now, go with the spark!
Vision Differs From Mission
Vision and mission are different, although the words are often incorrectly used interchangeably. A vision inspires a mission. A mission is the action verb of a vision. In the early 1960s, the vision of President John F. Kennedy was for the United States to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade. The mission of Apollo 11 was to place a man on the moon and return him safely to earth, making Kennedy's vision real.
Your mission should provide practical answers to the following question: "How do I describe the practical achievements that bring about my contribution to the world?" Your practice mission is your broadcast to the world that "This is what we do!"
Your mission trickles down into your plans. A plan is a collection of goals that you organize to be accomplished over the next 10 or 20 years. A goal is a snapshot, an event, a landmark achievement. Your goals are not your mission. Failing to reach a goal does not make you a failure. You can always set another goal and work on accomplishing it.
A Formula
"Success" comes from the word succession - "to do or put in a series" or "to take over or control of" (like a throne). Study the crowned heads of Europe; you'll see that succession/success occurs through planning. It doesn't occur by chance.
Successful individuals, teams, and practices follow a very simple formula:
Imagination to Vision to Mission to Plan to Persistence to Success!
Your vision is born out of your imagination. Your vision informs your mission and your mission guides your plan of action. Add to the equation persistence, and your result will be success!
A living, exciting vision is vivid, imaginative, and eagerly anticipated. Allow your vision to be inspired, as if divinely or in a dream, uncensored by the norms, limitations, and expectations of what others think is possible. Don't be so stiff that you can't see it. Don't judge it. Don't be shy to proclaim that you have a big vision! Be willing to turn convention on its head!
Vision Is a Stretch
Your vision is what you would create if your perfect, uncensored, uninhibited, imagination became the real world. Work together in your practice to create a team vision that will stretch your entire team. Extend your vision just a little further than you think you can go. Little visions are not worth committing 10 or more years of your life to create! You can do more than you think! Charles Schultz, the creator of the Peanuts comic strip, stated, "Life is like a 10-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears that we never use."
Even if it feels like you are currently in low gear, things may not be as bad as they seem. The very things that appear as weaknesses can be turned into strengths when viewed in a different light. It takes low gear to get you up a steep hill - low gear is a problem only if you never get out of it!
Einstein, when asked about his work, said: "I think and think for months, for years. Ninety nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right." Even for one of the greatest geniuses of the 20th century, persistence was important! His brilliance manifested itself in the fertile soil of his persistence. Albert Einstein didn't let "mental constraints" limit him. Why should you or I? Why worry about mental constraints at all? What can you do about them, anyway? Regardless of your strengths or your weaknesses, it is persistence that will ultimately enable you to live your vision.
E = MC2
Albert Einstein offers an excellent example of a personal vision. He once said, "I can't believe God would choose to play dice with the world." I don't think that Einstein ever wrote his vision down, but if he had, I think that this statement would have encompassed it. His vision of an orderly world drove him to search for the fundamental principles of the universe, to show that matter and energy are different forms of the same thing, to develop the Theory of Relativity, and later, to search for a broader theory that would encompass all of the major forces of nature.
The equation E = MC2 is an extraordinary formula for success. Consider that the intensity of the energy (E) behind your vision is equal to the material manifestation (M) of the successful result you desire, times a constant (C2). You can't change the constant, but you can control the energy driving your vision.
According to Quantum Physics, everything that exists is energy, and this energy is electromagnetic and in a continuous state of vibration. Everything includes all that you can experience with your five senses, as well as everything that is not perceived by your five senses, including everything that exists on the mental, emotional and spiritual levels. If everything is energy and all energy vibrates, it stands to reason that every thought you have vibrates. And, furthermore, by the Law of Attraction, the vibrations your thoughts radiate attract into your life whatever is in vibrational harmony with them.
The intensity of your vision is the hidden link between what you want, the universal laws that govern life, and what you actually get. Your success is directly related to the intensity of your vision. The clearer your vision, the more it propels you toward success. Energize your vision and you will tap into the lifeline to the unlimited energy of success.
Commit to Your Vision
Excellence is not being better than anyone else, but being the best you can be; not being good at what others decide is important, but at what you consider important. Not besting anyone else, but doing what you enjoy. Success is living your personal vision! There is only one success - to pursue your unique vision. Compare your situation now with where you want to be in the future. The "gap" is the lake you must row across. As you grow, take risks, and challenge yourself, it is helpful to share your vision with a mentor who can be objective and can help you reach the other shore.
Design your life, your vision, and your future - the way you choose to design them. The more wonderful your dreams and the more vividly you envision them, the more magnificent your success will be!
Mark Sanna, DC
Miami, Florida
www.mybreakthrough.com
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