A vision is a dream/picture in a person's mind which he or she wants it to come true. A vision is not a goal, objective, nor strategy. A film director’s having a vision of his receiving an Oscar ; a parent having a vision of signing his son’s marriage certificate; a person having a vision of flying an airplane in the sky; etc. In the business world, an example of a vision is the CEO of a soft drinks company sees that his company’s products are being sold in every country on earth. As a new Christian in 1945, God gave Bill Bright a vision to produce a film for evangelism on the life of Jesus, to be shown throughout the world.
Some visions need more resources, time and will-power than other ones to make them happen. But overall, vision-driven planning has a strategic direction, and is more sustainable and self-motivated (by sweet dreams?!). The vision-driven planning process can be a tool to check whether some goals and objectives need to be modified, or deleted. Vision-driven planning and purpose-driven time management therefore support each other.
Very often, a vision does not tell the exact day or even the year when it would come true. However, it could become clearer and clearer to the person concerned and people around him/her, as things are happening to support the realisation of the dream. When realisation is approaching, they could get confirming signals arriving from different sources. If the vision is a calling from God, things would move much more smoothly.
There can be a hierarchy of visions, leading to an 'ultimate' vision? Wouldn’t it be nice if each one of us knows how the hierarchy looks. I have drawn a diagram covering various aspects of life management and another diagram to plan my own life paths, and I hope you will do the same.
遠像 (宏願 ,Vision)
- 是夢想 、理想的境界 (合理的，可達到的)
- 可啟發（甜美的）靈感
- 通常沒有日期
- 逐漸會更明顯
- 可能隨著個人成長，日漸改變
- 遠像產生的計劃，較能持久，和自我推動
- 一系列分先後次序不同的遠像，達致終極遠像
- 例如：「家庭人人都笑口常開」、「我飛上雲霄」？
