Creating a vision for your life
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Hey, hey, hey, what is going on? Happy whatever day this is hope that you're doing well, it's Brandon Handley here, the voice of a generation hit you with some more spiritual dope. I don't have an intro. So I'm just gonna go ahead and roll with that one. You know, finally got done messing around with clean cleanup as my chickens here. And I've been waiting to do this podcast for a while this is one that, that that means that that means a lot to me. And it took a while for it to mean a lot for me. And we'll kind of discuss that as as we move forward here. So, what I want to share with you today is vision, right the the word vision and kind of what it means to have a vision and, and that kind of thing. And it's super powerful. And I think that we really neglected quite a bit. And I'm not sure what your familiarity is with the word visit. And how it plays out into your life. But I love these two quotes that come to mind. And the first one is by Helen Keller. And it says the only thing worse than being blind is having sight. But no vision. And that's just well, powerful right? And to be honest with you when I first heard it, you know, it took a while for it to you know, ricochet my mind and finally smash something and then make connection as it were kind of like a BB inside the mind. And then this other one is a Japanese proverb, vision without action is Daydream. action without vision is nightmare. Oh, so true. Right, so true. So true. And let's let's just kind of talk about let's talk to these two quotes. And and see, you know, what it is that Do you think about vision? How do you think about vision? Do you think about vision? And as I was putting this one together, you had to look some definitions up. And we're going to talk through those definitions. And we're going to see how they sit with you how they sit with you. So the simplest definition is the ability to think about or plan for the future with imagination, or wisdom. I love imagination being in there. It's inventiveness, creativity, innovation. And to me, this begs the sub question
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how
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do you think about your future? Do you think about your future based on known events of the past as though on a trajectory into the future? as though the past is the groundswell that's carrying you to your future? And then of course, I've got to say, do you see wisdom in that Right, do you see wisdom in that that is the soundness of action or decision with regard to the application of experience knowledge and good judgment, I would say yeah, you could see some wisdom in living that way. Because you're gonna, you're gonna translate some of your experiences in there. So there's definitely some wisdom if you do it in that way. But I also ask, Is there creativity? Is there innovation? Is there inventiveness and that because really, if you're if you're basing everything kind of on your past that how will you know what your future is? Right? So you, you, you've got to think more about kind of what you want to have happen to you. Because vision basically is something that is never happened, right? Is the vision something that you would like to see happen and you know, less than I guess, you could have Have a vision that isn't something great that you want to have happen. But typically, a vision is is something good, right? fanciful? Or, you know, you've never, it's never happened in your life before. And so, when you look at some of the visionaries throughout time, you know, did they perpetuate the past? Or, and I love I love I think I heard this idea once the first time from neville goddard. Did they call forth a vision, right? And yet we get to another we get to another definition of vision Now, that's a vivid mental image underlying vivid mental image, you know, especially a fanciful one of the future a dream, a conceptualization. Clearly, this is something that does not exist in the world today. But were you to have a vision.
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You'd be able to see
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a mental image of it clearly, and I want to take that a step. Further, and call it a full rendering within your mind a full setting where you'd have such a vision and you would summon all of your sensory elements you would be able to touch, there would be a texture,
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a smell, a full depth
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of experience, there would be emotion. I believe, to me that vision is propelled by emotion. Businesses are granted. I feel like visions are granted some would say by God, the universe or something, something that you access to this greater than you have led yourself to believe. That's where visions come from. So where have you seen visionaries in your past and in all time, and I had a couple of examples pulled out for you today. If you're if you're thinking of, you know, the past couple hundred years, you would think of the Wright brothers. And these were bicycle mechanics. Do they have a degree in aeronautics With a Avi Could you be you can't be an aviator before aviation even exists you know would they even mechanics and and i would say no they were granted a vision and they persisted with that vision they persisted with as if that was something that was guaranteed to them and I think of the story from Napoleon hills thinking grow rich and the story about Henry Ford the eight cylinder engine v you know that was actually the eight cylinder you know the V eight to V eight and he had a vision to create something that was that was cheap and good a V eight that was cheaper but there were some that existed already but they were expensive and they were really you know, kind of monstrosities.
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So, at some point, oh, wait, hold on. There's
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so during that time, you know, the cheap cheap and good did not exist, right. And he'd been surrounded by experts and engineers that were saying that it could not be done. And I love this line because he says, at some point, it becomes necessary to disperse with the services of experts. And these are people who have found limitations in their field most likely. And when you find people that that hit limitations, they're no longer thinking beyond what they believe to be true, right? If you find somebody that's been in a field for so long and has been doing what it is they do, for so long, they no longer see what is possible beyond what it is that they've seen. So he assembled a team of engineers, far from those naysayers far from those experts. And as they got to work the first six months It was nothing. You get frustrated engineer's claiming impossible, and he would say go ahead. And he was he would say stay on The job until you succeed, no matter how much time is required, right, no matter how much time is required, keep at it persist. And you know that this happened for yet another year and with Ford saying, I want it, and I will have it. And finally, again, this comes out of thinking Grow Rich Napoleon hills as if by a stroke of magic. The Secret was discovered his determination and his faith in Division in that image that he held in his mind, right, if we go if we if we, if we think back to the beginning here, the mental image being held clearly of what was possible. So you call forth the impossible in service to the masses, and why is that important? Why is it important to be in service to the masses, feel like you're really not going to have a vision grant To unless what you're trying to do is of service to something greater than your immediate self. And that's, you know, again, these are, this is just my perception of vision and kind of how you can take a look at it. So, you know, another thing to note here is that you don't need to be the person in possession of the know how you don't need to, you don't need to know how something will happen in order for it to happen, just like just like, hey, this was this was Henry Ford and he was he tasked
his engineers with and his team was something that he you know, he felt
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could happen.
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And then I'd like you to consider for a moment right Do you know how your how to grow your hair? Right, but it happens. Do you know how to create the white blood cells in your body to fight illness yet? You're creating it. Do you really even know No. Do you even know how it is that you are alive? And when you stop for a moment and think about all the things that you don't know how specifically are happening, but are happening for you every day, then is it possible for something to happen for you that you hold it a vision without knowing how it will happen? Is it possible and if there's that possibility, then you have to consider Hey, then, then it is possible that something could happen for me without knowing how it's going to happen. So then vision your vision, doesn't require greatness. I don't I don't think without outside of you. I believe that it requires and comes from the greatness within you. And I think that this is what you live for. This is what calls to you in the hero's journey. This
Vision is the call of the hero. And I think that you'll have many visions. Right? And this is it the vision without action is a daydream. That's the Japanese proverb. And then when you answer that, you take action on it, right? You take action. And when you answer that you accept what's already been granted the strength and the grace. That to carry out your vision, and you've already got this within you, it's just how do you want to apply it in your life? How do you want to how do you want to apply it and you know, we think of other stories that have been out there, other great visionaries. You know, Tesla and his love electricity needs to say to him about him, he would have a vision without even going like all to to without gone through so many gyrations he would see it once and create it and it would work just as he'd seen it so clearly in his mind. And then you had Steve Jobs.
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With the iPhone
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You know, he he would he just
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kept at it and he believed that it could happen. And then you've kind of listen you've got Ilan musk doing whatever it is that he's doing, but there's something
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different
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about his approach, there's something different with how he's going after these things. And, you know, I think that it could just as easily be you now that you kind of understand fully, you know, how vision could be applied and, and I think that once you have a vision, you're calling forth the future. And that is something that you can do every day. And that is something that when you wake up, that is something that pulls you and calls you and you're taking action and it's just such a emotional void filler, I would say and it's not it's not a overarching ambition for great wealth. Just to have this great wealth, there's something in there. That to me is so powerful and then even on the back end of this action without vision is nightmare to do all that you do
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without a vision to me seems hollow.
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Right? Without a vision, hollow action,
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what is it? What is what is your action for? Why are you doing what it is that you do? And when you're called forth in the vision, then I think that you're super powerful way. So hey, listen, you know, rolled over in your own mind, see how you see how you feel about it. consider creating a vision for yourself and seeing what that feels like. versus a plan versus a dream versus any of these other words there versus a goal and see if it doesn't Make you quite literally resonate at a different vibration and if it does, that's cool if it doesn't, that's cool to you know Call, call it what you want this is what it does for me and that's that's really what I'm here to share with you this is this is that is my spiritual dope, right? That's my hit. And when I think of when I think of a vision, I feel like that that is granted and I feel like there's divinity and I feel like there's strength and I feel like there's hope and I feel like there's all those just powerful, innately gifted things within it right? To me, I think that's powerful. That's something that I wake up for every day. And I think that hey, listen, if you're digging what you're hearing here today, I would just appreciate hearing from you and say, Hey, you know, Brandon as spiritual dope, co appreciate what you're putting out there and I would love it. If you head on over to iTunes and leave a five or five star rating if you love it a one star rating if you hate it, don't leave anything in between. I don't you know, I don't want to live for mediocrity. And let's let's keep it rolling. Thanks for tuning in and I will talk to you
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