Why your vision fails

Why Your Vi­sion Fails

My vi­sions failed me.

I first read that I must have a big vi­sion for my life or busi­ness in 1987.

Guru af­ter guru keeps re­peat­ing the need for a vi­sion. It’s a stan­dard prescription.

Yet, they never worked for me. And it seems I’m not an ex­cep­tion in this.

Big vi­sions aren’t work­ing for mil­lions who read the same ad­vice but can’t get them­selves to move their butt even an inch.

Vi­sions are big by de­f­i­n­i­tion, but the av­er­age per­son, like you and me, per­ceive them­selves as rel­a­tively small.

Image showing the gap between capabilities and vision.

The gap be­tween the vi­sion you were told to cre­ate and what you be­lieve you’re ca­pa­ble of is too big to even make an effort.

That’s why our vi­sions fail to move us.

If larger-than-life vi­sions don’t work for you, try these 3 adjustments.

1. Change the size of the vi­sion or the time frame.

In­stead of fo­cus­ing on some­thing over­whelm­ingly big in a dis­tant fu­ture, fo­cus on a smaller vi­sion closer to your cur­rent reality.

This will elim­i­nate the huge gap be­tween what you feel you can achieve and what you’re visioning.

2. In­crease your be­lief in what you are ca­pa­ble of.

You can do this by cre­at­ing smaller re­sults faster. Worded dif­fer­ently: Get to work!

Don’t wait for su­per-hu­­man mo­ti­va­tion to kick in from your vi­sion, but sim­ply start do­ing the work.

The more re­sults you cre­ate, the more lit­tle things you achieve, the more your be­lief will grow.

You can also try af­fir­ma­tions to in­crease belief.

3. Re­in­force your vi­sion daily.

A vi­sion is not a set-and-for­get solution.

Apart from the ‘ca­­pa­­bil­i­ties-be­lief gap’ the num­ber one rea­son vi­sions don’t work is that they’re not reinforced.

Make re­vis­it­ing your ad­justed vi­sion an in­dis­pens­able daily habit.