Dear reader! Looking at what you are doing online, the project you are working on, and the ideas you propel, I can instantly see how to make you famous and influential. How to make you a history maker, a legacy builder. But passing this vision down to you turned out to be more challenging than I thought.
They say one image is worth a 1000 words. I say: one clear image of how and where to move is worth 1000 hours. Malcolm Gladwel says 10000 ).
Dear reader, you have great ideas, and many good projects are sitting in your head. They might perish there, never revealed to the world due to many factors. Some of them are related to mental blocks, others to not knowing what steps to take and how to move strategically. Some of them are related to sporadic movement, which only leads to a waste of time and energy. But the main reason is an unclear image of your future.
What do you need to have this image? 3 things:
1. See (and clearly understand) your passion to change something specific (improve, invent, show a different perspective, create a system or solution)
2. See people’s needs, pain, and suffering you want to resolve, soothe, eradicate. See means: feel them, understand them, get passionate about people who go through them. Know their stories. Know their pain.
3. Finally, see the steps on how to move from suffering to resolution with compassion. (Not only design, but test, and ensure it works.) Compassion is the key, because you can’t help if you are careless about what people go through.
Just those 3 things for starters are a long journey. The journey of understanding yourself and others. Unfortunately, I can’t put the map in 3 words or a 1-hour consultation, despite seeing it. My ability to see is in my years of understanding myself and others. It is not in marketing, product design.. or those technical things I teach. It is in compassion and understanding of human nature.
I do want to make this vision available to you. But sometimes It takes some students a few years to get a clear road map for themselves and their unique vision. Because to see, you have to grow, you have to get experience, you have to dig deep in yourself and in knowledge.
Reality is: you have to have patience. Nothing good is just born overnight.. There is time to grow in the “womb”. Same for a vision. Same for your life’s road map. For you to see it, it has to be born.