Controlling Your Success #3 – The First Creation

Clarity of Vision

I am all about visualization. I believe in having a clear picture of my objectives and the steps that I’m going to take to get there. It’s an attitude I encourage you to adopt. In the book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, the late Dr. Stephen Covey illustrates the crucial importance of a clear vision.

Everything that we are going to do in our lives (be they big accomplishments or everyday tasks) will always go through two stages of realization. First they occur in our minds –we mentally envision the action– and then they occur in reality –we perform the act. So the mental creation always precedes the physical creation. And the clearer and more defined and fleshed out the first creation is, the better prepared you can be to tackle the second creation.