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Your Compelling Personal Vision | Ken Blanchard

How can leaders benefit from a personal vision statement? Listen as author and leadership consultant Ken Blanchard describes how a compelling personal vision keeps leaders focused on their goals. He walks us through three steps to creating one and even shares his own for inspiration.

"That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever." | 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (NLT) 

"The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down." | Ravi Zacharias

“Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.” | Bill Hybels

"Capital isn't scarce; vision is." | Sam Walton   

“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!” | Søren Kierkegaard

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” | Harriet Tubman

"Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion." | Bill Hybels

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare." | Japanese Proverb  

"Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upward and becomes faith." | Stephen S. Wise  

"Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything." | Peter Marshall  

"The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life." | John Macy

"It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision." | Helen Keller  

"Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do." | John Maxwell