Vision In Action 5
Good morning and welcome to this morning’s edition of Leading Right. I am Abiodun Fijabi
A vision remains a dream and could die if it is not acted upon. So many visions have died and many more will die because the visionaries failed and would fail to act on their dreams. The secret of keeping your vision alive is to turn it into a mission. Mission is the commitment to act on a vision. You no longer are a visionary but also a man or woman on assignment. You have chosen to give your dream legs and hands and have rolled up your sleeves, ready to be deployed in the field of your vision.
Have you seen a man or woman on an assignment before? You can always identify the passion with which they operate. Nothing else matters to them more than this vision. Everything they do counts towards the attainment of the vision.
A missioner asks everyday, “What must I do today to move towards my vision?” He arranges his daily activities into series of achievable, challenging and time-bound goals. He sets to work with single-mindedness. You can gauge his enthusiasm, his spirit and his industry. It is like his very life depends on it. In truth, it is. The survival of his vision has to do with his mission.
He also asks himself before he takes on any assignment, “How does this assignment help me move towards the realization of my dream?” If he cannot answer in the affirmative, he lets it pass. He is not interested in being a jack of all trades and master of none. That is for the visionary without a mission.
How does he major on the major is his major concern. He carefully selects his tasks, his friends, his hobbies, his readings, his habits, his words and attitudes to be sure they square up with his vision. He is like that man in Jesus’ parable who sold all he had and purchase a pearl of great price. A missioner counts his costs and lays down his life. His vision is worth living for, and if possible, worth dying for. Mission is a serious business.
Let me read to you in part Nelson Mandela vision. “I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve, but it needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
He was on a man on a mission. It was the driving force of his life. It was behind his desire to serve as the president of the new South Africa. It was this mission that made him refuse to serve a second term, choosing rather to serve on a bigger and higher platform to propagate the ideals he believes him. Up till today, even in his old age the soldier in Mandela matches on.
When will you turn your vision into mission? I hope it is today.
A vision remains a dream and could die if it is not acted upon. So many visions have died and many more will die because the visionaries failed and would fail to act on their dreams. The secret of keeping your vision alive is to turn it into a mission. Mission is the commitment to act on a vision. You no longer are a visionary but also a man or woman on assignment. You have chosen to give your dream legs and hands and have rolled up your sleeves, ready to be deployed in the field of your vision.
Have you seen a man or woman on an assignment before? You can always identify the passion with which they operate. Nothing else matters to them more than this vision. Everything they do counts towards the attainment of the vision.
A missioner asks everyday, “What must I do today to move towards my vision?” He arranges his daily activities into series of achievable, challenging and time-bound goals. He sets to work with single-mindedness. You can gauge his enthusiasm, his spirit and his industry. It is like his very life depends on it. In truth, it is. The survival of his vision has to do with his mission.
He also asks himself before he takes on any assignment, “How does this assignment help me move towards the realization of my dream?” If he cannot answer in the affirmative, he lets it pass. He is not interested in being a jack of all trades and master of none. That is for the visionary without a mission.
How does he major on the major is his major concern. He carefully selects his tasks, his friends, his hobbies, his readings, his habits, his words and attitudes to be sure they square up with his vision. He is like that man in Jesus’ parable who sold all he had and purchase a pearl of great price. A missioner counts his costs and lays down his life. His vision is worth living for, and if possible, worth dying for. Mission is a serious business.
Let me read to you in part Nelson Mandela vision. “I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve, but it needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
He was on a man on a mission. It was the driving force of his life. It was behind his desire to serve as the president of the new South Africa. It was this mission that made him refuse to serve a second term, choosing rather to serve on a bigger and higher platform to propagate the ideals he believes him. Up till today, even in his old age the soldier in Mandela matches on.
When will you turn your vision into mission? I hope it is today.
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