These were the opening words of an email I once received from one of my mentors. A simple but profound statement. As a matter of fact, it is an even simpler equation:
Vision – Execution = Hallucination
Everyone has a dream—a vision—of who they want to become. But they remain dreams for far too many people. No matter what your vision, the fact is that you must complete dozens if not hundreds of steps, some small, some large, on the way to becoming the person you desire to be.
Many folks get discouraged when they consider the scope of the undertaking. Excuses are plentiful.
“It will take too long.”
“It sounds too difficult.”
“I’d rather do X, Y, or Z.”
And yet they’re often surprised when time goes by and they have not yet achieved their goals.
Vision – Execution = Hallucination
As the creator and facilitator of the Strategic Career Planning (SCP): A 10-Step Guide to Realizing Your Potential training program, I help people develop their own vision, mission, and values statements, and write professional, educational, and personal goals, including the steps needed to achieve those goals. I help people discover how to best attack those seemingly insurmountable steps needed to achieve their vision and become the person they want to be.
Those who have graduated from my program, or know me personally, know that I am a big advocate of “Ferocious Execution.” This is what separates, as they say, the men from the boys, or the women from the girls.
Ferocious Execution begins with an internal drive to succeed. I help people find that spark and nurture the flame that results. With this illuminating fire at your core, you can attack every aspect of your assignments. Own it. Kill it. Rock it out, no matter how big or small the task. Success follows. You begin to make headway on your goals. Desire to achieve increases. Confidence grows. You gain tremendous experience and insight over a short period of time. As a result, your skills and abilities (and career) grow at an exponential rate. Confidence grows further. The ferocity of your execution increases. More success follows. This is a tremendously empowering cycle—and one that I wish everyone would experience.
But for too many of us, our vision of who we want to be in the future will remain simply a hallucination because we have failed to execute. If you can’t understand a simple equation like Vision – Execution = Hallucination, then how can you possibly understand and realize the concept of exponential growth?
If you are interested in learning the tools needed to achieve your vision, and the opportunity to experience tremendous growth in all of your endeavors, please feel free to contact me at any time at aaron@aarongalvanizedstrategies-com
