The Perfect Quote to Remind You Why ‘Vision’ is So Important
It’s one thing to have goals for your life, it’s something different to have a vision for your life. You can reach every one of your goals and still be in the same place you were before. On the other hand, if you have vision, each one of your goals will be a stepping stone moving you closer to a destination on the map you pick.
A great metaphor for this is the example of chopping down an oak tree. If you hit an oak tree a thousand times in a thousand different places it won’t fall. Each one of those thousand hits represent a goal and achieving each one of those goals does very little to help you chop down the tree. But if you hit that oak tree a thousand times in the same spot the outcome will be different. That tree will come crashing down.
In order to hit the proverbial oak tree in your life a thousand times in the same spot, you must have a vision for your life. Don’t make the mistake of setting goals without a vision for where you want those goals to take you.
Helen Keller’s words say it best:
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision.