Walt Disney was a great visionary. In fact, I once read an article about his vision for the Epcot Center. Walt was getting on in years and unfortunately he passed on before it was finished. A reporter told his wife they were sorry that Walt never got to see the finished result. She said something to the effect of how wrong the reporter was. In fact, ever since before the beginning of the project, Disney saw, breathed, ate, and slept his vision for the Epcot Center. Daily, he saw it hundreds of times, he knew exactly how it was going to look and how it was going to function. He knew how it was going to be built, how it was going to interact with the community, he saw how it would effect the environment, he knew and saw every single inch of it with intense clarity.
Ever since I heard that story over a decade ago, its been my perfect example of how to visualize.
There is also a great story about two equally matched high school basketball teams. They conducted an experiment. One team practiced hard, and the other team sat in a classroom and was instructed and lead to visualize perfect plays and teamwork.
Guess which team won?
Every one of the major, life changing accomplishments in my life started with a passionate vision. How we got our house, whom I married, even my first hot rod.
What really surprises me, is how little vision and dream building I've done over the last year.
I am wondering, when and why did I decide to give up the spirit to presume my dreams?
Honestly, I gave up and sold out on myself.
NOT ANY MORE!!!
I'm living every day with new found passion!!!
Be Blessed and hitch your little red wagon to a shooting star!!!
-TimBER
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Have you read:
Or listened to "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch? i'm normally not a groupie kind of gal, and I have no idea what this fellow is like in reality, but he won me over with this lecture. It talks about visualizing and obtaining your childhood dreams. Dr. Pausch is dying of pancreatic cancer.
His website is:
http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
thats a great one
Dabble, you are so right, I've watched that several times, each time I get inspired more.
Follow your dreams
Well, you got it back, you relit that fire that went out.
I have a visualisation session every morning as I travel to work on the train, it recharges my batteries before I reach work.
So follow your star, and never mind the lttle red wagon, jump into your hot rod, and put the hammer down.
martind43