IDENTIFY YOUR VISION
by Vic Johnson
(excerpted from Day by Day with James Allen)
"The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by; this you will become." - As A Man Thinketh
Whether you liked his politics or not, much can be learned from the life of former President Clinton. Grolier's New Book of Knowledge reports that as a teenager "Clinton thought of becoming a doctor or a reporter or even a musician. But after a fateful meeting with President John F. Kennedy, while still in high school, he made up his mind to enter politics." At that moment a vision was born that he would hold onto - that he would glorify in his mind over and over - for the next 30 years, until he himself was elected President at the age of 46.
Jay Leno, who succeeded the venerable Johnny Carson as host of The tonight Show, first envisioned that he would be the host when he was just 22-years-old and unknown and unproven as a comedian, much less as host of a show of such regard. For twenty years he enthroned in his heart an ideal that most people would have thought was "foolish", "outlandish" and "impossible."
Thoreau told us that "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." No doubt it's because the masses are without a vision for their lives.
by Vic Johnson
(excerpted from Day by Day with James Allen)
"The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by; this you will become." - As A Man Thinketh
Whether you liked his politics or not, much can be learned from the life of former President Clinton. Grolier's New Book of Knowledge reports that as a teenager "Clinton thought of becoming a doctor or a reporter or even a musician. But after a fateful meeting with President John F. Kennedy, while still in high school, he made up his mind to enter politics." At that moment a vision was born that he would hold onto - that he would glorify in his mind over and over - for the next 30 years, until he himself was elected President at the age of 46.
Jay Leno, who succeeded the venerable Johnny Carson as host of The tonight Show, first envisioned that he would be the host when he was just 22-years-old and unknown and unproven as a comedian, much less as host of a show of such regard. For twenty years he enthroned in his heart an ideal that most people would have thought was "foolish", "outlandish" and "impossible."
Thoreau told us that "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." No doubt it's because the masses are without a vision for their lives.
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