2 Ways To Destroy Your Vision
Start comparing yourself to other people. If you are searching for a way to build walls around your vision and stifle your unique capabilities and talents, then start comparing yourself to everyone else. Actually, it really only takes one other person. Pick someone, compare yourself to them, see what they do better then you do, and start getting really upset/anxious/distracted because they do. This is a sure fire way to make sure you lose site of what makes you uniquely qualified to do things that no one else can. It guarantees that you will miss what you were designed to do because you were too busy looking at what everyone else was doing. You can’t miss with this one!- Live only for appearance based quality. If lots of other people aren’t going to see you do it, then it has zero value. If you are looking to destroy your vision and hide your authenticity, then do everything just because it makes you look good. This is a great way to add value to absolutely nothing and implement encouragement into absolutely no one. If #1 didn’t work for you, try #2. It’s a lose-lose situation!
So there you have it, two great ways to destroy your visionary outlook on life. I wouldn’t recommend choosing either one. However, if we aren’t going to choose to destroy vision, we need to choose to build it. One way to build, is to live a life of ambitious contentment. Some view contentment as weakness. I believe you can be both content (satisfied) and ambitious (passionate). You can decide for yourself.
Be content whether you live with little or with much. Chances are you’ll probably live through both.
2 Comments
Amazing! This is so funny and not funny at the same time! You should be a Pastor Parke!!!
I think the only qualifier on your first point is that, sometimes in business, as well as individual entrepreneurialship (sp?), there can be some advantages to occasional benchmarking. Benchmarking allows you to see what smart practices others are using and pursuing that could be advantageious to incorporate into your own models.
With that said, though, you are right. When you are simply using others examples as a reason to shoot down your own ideas, then you are headed down the wrong path.