People With Vision Do Succeed

People With Vision Do Succeed

“Thank God there are individuals who have the vision,

determination, and drive to forge ahead through failure

after failure. You may only have the mental picture of a

given idea or invention, but that mental picture can be

enough to keep you working on your idea. Thousands of

new inventions are being patented every day. When will

people see the completion of your idea?

Imagine somewhere that there should be a monument

to lost ideas. It’s not a junk heap. It’s the should-have-been

heap. It’s a pile of the best ideas that were never tried or

fulfilled. It’s the unfulfilled patents or never-written books

or never-created ideas because somebody was afraid to try

or somebody ridiculed the idea to death. Is that where you

want your ideas to end up?

Look at Henry Ford, who in his early years began

working on inventing a gas-driven engine. Ford had a study

done by a leading college to see if the gas engine could

be invented. After extensive study, the college’s technical

department determined that the idea could not be done.

A piston could not be made to move by gasoline-ignited

power.

Henry Ford still believed he could build such an engine.

He purchased his own parts and with help from his wife, he

got the first makeshift piston powered by droplets of gasoline

ignited by a spark. The rest is history. The horses and the

steam engines of the day were gradually replaced with the

internal combustion engine in the early 1900s. Henry Ford

then developed the first successful automobile assembly

line, building cars faster than anyone had imagined. A

man with vision, determination, and fortitude, Henry Ford

proved himself a true visionary who would not let his ideas

be extinguished by the negativity and ridicule of others.

STEPS TO CARRY OUT YOUR VISION

First, don’t stop yourself from dreaming; dreaming is

the starting point.

Second, don’t let others stifle your creative imagination.

Your ideas are greatest when you feel free to use your

imagination.

Third, don’t let your problems stop you. It’s been said

that going to sleep with a problem can be a good thing.

During your sleep, your brain can quietly think about the

problem. You can actually wake up with a new solution to

your problem. Allow your subconscious mind to work on

the problem.

Your mind is a tremendous tool when given the

opportunity to prove itself.

Researchers believe people use only about 5% of the

brain’s capacity. That leaves 95% room for your creative

imagination. You can use that extra part of your brain to

keep telling yourself, “I’m going to do it! I’m going to do it!

I’m going to be successful!” Let yourself be different and

think! Use your brain and think! There is so much more you

can be doing with your brain capacity than you imagined!”

“Anyone who stops learning is old

whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone

who keeps learning stays young. The

greatest thing in life is to keep your

mind young.”

--Henry Ford

C- 2005 john Paul Carinci – from the book The Power Of Being Different