Now this vision is not what your eyes can see, it's actually
what your mind can see. Physical vision is only capable of seeing what already
exists, but your mind vision, that is your mindsight has the capacity to see
what can happen in your future.
Now your mindsight is more powerful than your physical eye sight
because there is not as much power in your eyesight to change your future
experience as you have in your mindsight.
Though what you see with your physical eyes is important as it
helps to inspire dreams and ideas about what you want in life, what the eyes of
your mind can see however, is actually the production of what your physical
eyes enabled you to capture and picture which is very useful to your future.
If you have very clear physical vision but lack internal vision
you can hardly do well in life. If you lack effective mindsight you naturally
become a victim of trends and developments in life. You can't take charge of
your life or influence your tomorrow if you lack the capacity to use your inner
vision effectively.
Those that will be in charge tomorrow are those who already
today can see with their inner eyes what they want in their physical lives in
the next one to two to five or ten or even twenty five years.
You can't accomplish much without inner vision, in fact many
people perish in life for lack of inner vision.
Kings, rulers and those in charge today are those who had clear
inner vision about today many years ago.
Ladies and gentlemen, you would keep being a victim of chance,
change and circumstances without a clear inner vision.
How do people come about inner vision you may ask? Your inner
vision is conceived and developed based on what your physical eyes can see
today and the interpretation your mind gives to it.
Your knowledge as of today, the quantum of information you have,
your level of exposure and the very many things happening around you will
create within you a mental picture of how you want your future to be. They will
supply the ingredients required for you to dream, believe and pursue.
Your presence of mind today and the ability to comprehend and
interpret your today correctly provides the incubator to secure, mature and
bring forth what you see and wish for in your tomorrow.
However, because what you see daily keeps changing; the people,
the environment, the life styles, preference and taste, it is dangerous and
counterproductive to hold on to the same vision format without effecting
regular reviews and edit of that vision, why? Because every vision is for an
appointed time.
Many of us have carried very exciting and valuable visions in
our hearts for a very long time, but because of many factors like fear,
distractions, discouragement, lack of confidence and inadequate preparation,
the season; the effective timing for that vision has expired. If you birth that
same vision today, it will turn out a still birth. It will be a dead on arrival
vision.
You see, every time you have a vision, and it looks really good
and realistic and you get excited about it, if you don't go for it and you delay
it unnecessarily, that vision may become weak and blurry. Time and trends
diminish the efficacy of visions.
Twenty years ago I had friends who were very excited and willing
to invest so much money in the cyber café business, today, the most affordable
smart phones have in-built cyber cafes within if I can put it that way.
Times and seasons have made irrelevant the idea of a cyber café
business.
A few months ago I paid a visit to the home of one of my big
brothers and friend, Richard Mofe Damijo, popularly known as RMD. And we were
talking about movies and entertainment in Nigeria. And he said to me, the era
when Nigerians rushed home on Thursday evenings or Sunday evenings to see their
favourite soap operas is over. It's not happening anymore. Media and entertainment
consumption habits have changed. As a movie maker or entertainer, if you ignore
the new media; meaning the internet and you tubes and the likes and hold on to
the regular traditional TV, you wouldn't go very far.
Many people these days, especially the young people see movies
and enjoy music on their various kinds of mobile devices, including, phones,
tabs and pads. Many young people don't watch traditional TV that much anymore.
The future of movie makers and other entertainers is in new
media; social media.
I remembered this conversation a few days ago when I read on a
popular twitter handle called "FACTS" that in five years, watching
regular traditional TV globally would have declined by 64% and seeing movies
and entertainment and news on new media; that is mobile phones, tabs and pads
would have grown by a whopping 256%.
Ladies and gentlemen, times are changing, people are changing
trends are changing and every vision is for an appointed time, if you miss your
time, your vision may become obsolete even before manifestation.
Dear friend, how do you then keep you vision fresh, relevant and
realistic no matter the time or season?
Your vision should just not be about what you want for yourself.
It shouldn't be about what you want to gain, benefit or enjoy. It shouldn't be
about what you want to accumulate, acquire or boast about. A forever living
vision is such that is conceived to bring solution to a challenge humanity is
facing. A great vision seeks to improve the quality of life and experience of
mankind. A powerful vision is not self-centred but humanity centred.
As long as humans remain in this world, there would be needs and
gaps. Even if some of these needs have been met, your vision and dream must be
centred on superior ways of bringing solutions to that humanity challenge.
If for instance your dream is to bring joy and laughter and
relaxation to humanity through entertainment, the media avenue wouldn't in
anyway dissuade you or make you give up on that dream. Weather its traditional
media or new media, it wouldn't move you one bit. The passion and desire to
entertain people will remain alive and relevant.
A vision that is self-centred is usually rigid and transient, a
vision that is humanity centred is extremely flexible and capable of
modification.
Dear friend, it doesn't matter for how long you've carried that
people centred vision, it doesn't matter how trends and people might have
changed; all you need do is innovate. Rethink it, rejig it, rework it, redesign
it, reposition it and reproduce it. It will still work.
Every self-centred vision will scare you, it should in fact
scare you as the possibility of success and sustainability is low.
But every people centred vision, no matter the times, the
season, the environment or trend; once it would solve problems, improve lives
and enhance humanity, it will surely prosper.
The nature of your vision and your capacity to deliver will
prosper your future. Ladies and gentlemen, it is needless, complaining,
nagging, criticising and lamenting everyday with your hands folded.
As we continue to mount pressure on the political class and
those in power to up their game and deliver, you also must bend down and work
on your vision, if you don't, you may just discover it's too late, you're too
old and your chance is gone. Don't get trapped in your vision. Deliver it.
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