CHAPTER 1 Becoming a Visionary
The 12 Week Year journey begins with the first of the five disciplines—Vision.
Your compelling vision provides the focus, direction, and energy needed for you to achieve extraordinary results. The best visions stretch you—they require your best work. Your “same-old, same-old” just won’t do if you strive to become great at anything.
You will have to stretch yourself and when you stretch, you encounter resistance. Your old habits, thoughts, and systems will all push back at you.
Most change fails because the price required is too high. The ultimate price of change? Your comfort. That’s why your vision is so important. It is your emotional and intellectual “why.” It is the reason why you are willing to pay the price of change. If you have a vision that you are unwilling to abandon in the face of discomfort, you will become what you are capable of becoming.
The first step in creating your powerful vision is to imagine where you find yourself in 5, 10, 15, or even more years into the future. When you do this, something amazing happens. Neurons deep within your prefrontal cortex begin to fire. These neurons are the same ones that fire when you act on your vision. In a very real sense, when you imagine your future, you are training your brain to act on it as well.
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