The Power of Vision

As a child, you may have dreamed of doing something great one day. That was the beginning of your "vision". Everyone knows that vision means having the ability to see. When you have a vision for your life, you see a future that you want to make real. If your vision is powerful and compelling enough, it can provide the impetus to turn the future you envisaged in reality, because every vision, no matter how fantastic it may seem at first, has a potential to become a reality.

The individual who has not guiding vision is like a ship drifting at sea t no set course. On the other hand, the person with strong vision sees possibilities in their future, which they are determined to realize. The power of vision inspires creativity and resourcefulness and empowers you to reach your full potential.

You can do anything with the rest of your life - what will that be? We are too quick to see things that are beyond our current capabilities as impossible, now and for all time, and so we give up before we've even begun. Yet, if you take a good look around you, you'll probably find someone like you currently doing precisely the thing that you wrote off as unacheivable.

Your life vision needs to be bifocal, taking on both your immediate and your distant future. You must focus not only on your ultimate goal, which in some cases may lie may years ahead, but also on the intermediate objectives along the way, such as the exams you might need to pass each year to graduate from college.

At very practical level, your vision serves to organize your goals and priorities within a clear time frame and sets for you a direction and a destination. It draws on what is important to you - your values, hopes, and dreams. The intermediate goals that you set help you to identify benchmark achievements along the route. In this way, your vision gradually builds, gathering momentum as you move toward your destination, energizing you and motivating you to keep going until you reach your goal.

Think about how your life would look if you identified a master plan and then deployed every available resource and opportunity in order to achieve that purpose. That would be your vision. Such a vision might look something like this: I will be very successful in my career and enjoy it very much; i will live in my ideal home and have everything I need to live comfortably and happily; I will share my life with those I love - my families and friends - and have plenty of time to enjoy leisure activities with them; I will make sure that i get enough exercise, sleep and proper nourishment to maintain my mind, body and spirit in peak shape; I will control my finances so that I can adequately provide for my family's needs; I will make steady progress toward the goals I have set for my life's achievement and legacy.

You can create your vision through a combination of thought and action. Start by identifying the values and principles that guide you in life; next, create objectives to achieve those important things over time; then prioritize to make the best use of your time and be sure that the most important things get accomplished. You will have to manage your time well to be highly successful in your efforts. As you take these steps, your vision will materialize, but it will not be set in stone - you will need to refine it regularly throughout the rest of your life, as you continue to seek balanced living.

Start Another Stream

One of the worst things you can do is to permit a continuous trickle of worry across the mind, because like water it will ultimately dig a huge trench. Then every thought you think will be drained into this channel of fear and worry and come up tinctured with anxiety. You will be a person full of fear and worry.

The way to obliterate this is to start another stream. Let a stream of faith run across the mind and go deeper and deeper as you absorb faith thoughts into your consciousness - and after a while, it will undercut the channel of fear and worry which will then fall into the Chanel of faith, and a great river of faith will surge through your mind so that every thought will come up bright and resplendent, optimistic and hopeful, and life will be good, very good. Cultivate a channel of faith to give you deep security which you need.

Balanced Living

The modern world places great emphasis on personal choice. In an average day we all make countless decisions - there's a range of products for every need, a computer command for every circumstance, a sandwich filling for every palate. All this gives us unprecedented opportunities to shape our lives in lots of small ways. However, having to make so m any choices, often with little or no time in which to consider them, can become overwhelming. How do you decide which options will enhance, rather that detract from, the balance of your life?

Technological advances, such as satellite communications and e-mail, now make it easy to contact people anywhere in the world anytime. The internet offers easy access to vast amounts of information that in the past would have taken days,  or weeks, to collate; and computer technologies enable us to do more in less time than ever before. Other modern  conveniences abound - for example, fast foods, cellphones, and air travel. If we can fulfill our responsibilities at home and at work more quickly than before, then theoretically, we should have more time to relax and enjoy ourselves. If only life were that simple.

All these benefits of modernity have negative consequences as well as positive. In the computer age it's easy to fall into the rap of spending more and more time at work trying to become even more productive. Fast foods have contributed to an increased prevalence of obesity and diabetes in developed countries. Ease of travel can result in our being away from family and friends more than is good for us. And being accessible outside working hours to clients or co-workers via our cellphones can cause work concerns to invade our home life.

We are more likely than previous generations to change job regularly and to move to different regions or even different countries. On the one hand, this flexibility gives us a great chance to meet new people and simple a wide variety of cultural and working environments. On the other hand, it may make our lives feel unstable, especially as the growing trend for organizations to hire people on fixed-term contracts means that often our job changes are dictated to us.

In identifying the choices that are right for you, the first thing o need to develop is a clear and compelling vision, so that you always stay focused on your goals and priorities when scrolling through the often bewildering range of options available

Our Creative Species

We are one of the few conscious species in our universe. When you look out into the universe at night and sees stars, planets, and maybe, if you're really lucky, a comet or shooting star, then you  may sense that somewhere out there another conscious being is looking from its planet to ours asking the same question: "Is there life out there in the universe?" Are there other conscious being like me?" As we look out, we have to be aware of something else that we are rare. Biological life is rare: most planets do not have it. Biological life with the level of consciousness that humankind has achieved is even more rare. When we think of our own planet, we can think our lives insignificant. We feel that we are only one teeming billions, but, int the wilder perspective of the universe that is our planet's home, we are precious, unique, and important. Each of us is something extremely rare: a conscious being wit the ability to create.

The universe is in a constant state of creation. it continually creates a new forms and discards others. As conscious beings, we share in that creative process. While other species can do instinctively, we alone on our planet have the power of choice. We can choose to be instruments of Divine creativity  of the universe; we can connect with the creative energy that fires the cosmos. In choosing to express our creativity, we are helping the evolution of the universe. We are assisting it to express all the ideas and visions that it can manifest. We become part of the creative process of the Divine Mind. Through our senses we translate Divine inspiration, the creative energy of the cosmos, into material forms such as words, music, and images

Go Hunting

An important thing to realize is that it doesn't make any difference how much difficulty there is - there
are always great possibilities in any situations.

Generally, when people are disheartened, they can's see the possibilities. They see only the difficulties
that are involved, not the solution. They magnify the difficulties, to blow them up, to make them bigger
that they actually are.

The thing to do when you are disheartened is that very opposite: go hunting around in your situation for
the bright possibilities that are surely there

Awakening Your Creative Childhood Self

Something to try...

• Do something just fro fun of it - go for a cycle ride, go horse-riding, play round of golf, go dancing at a club, go to a park for a day to hike, go swimming. Choose an activity that is energetic, something that you do not often do, and something you enjoy

• Play games - cards, ball games, Frisbee, tennis, or other games that involve interaction with others. Games stimulate our strategic thinking and take us away from the wold of work.

• Smile and laugh - being alive is an exciting adventure and being a conscious being is an extraordinary miracle.

• Sit down - do nothing every now and then, and just dream.