Be a visionary

“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”

Jonathan Swift

          Many people value aesthetic objects because they feel in them a painstaking submission to facts and ideas imposed upon the artist by his/her vision. The reason why you love them, according to Jay Chapman, is because “These things were not made, they were seen,” in other words, it was brought forth by a visionary of some sort. Vision is, therefore, the art of seeing things invisible. 

Even Thomas Jefferson said he liked the dreams of the future more than the history of the past. For Burt Nanus a strategy is only as good as the vision that guides it, so it is important to remember that without action people and their visions may perish. Act therefore upon your visions. Margaret Thatcher once said that if a woman like Eva Péron, who had no ideals, could get that far, then just imagine how far she as Margaret herself, could go with all the ideas and visions she had. She, like so many others, was a visionary in her own right. 

Being a visionary includes being open to new ideas and information; they also have imagination in the sense of possessing the ability to see things before they happen and to make good predictions. They also show persistence and strong convictions.

May you be a visionary in all that you do, and remember to act on those visions and to share them, for in order to serve its purpose a vision has to be a shared vision!   

To see a world in a grain of sand
and a heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.

William Blake

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