"This is crazy, this is crazy, this is crazy." Now, those of you belonging to the culturally elite are picturing Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) in "Vacation" standing on a hotel pool diving board swinging his arms back and forth. What is he calling crazy? That he's getting ready to jump into the pool where a dreamy model (Christie Brinkley) waits. She's naked, and not his wife.
Haven't we all stood on the edge of something, thinking jumping would be crazy and yet . . . Applying to that beyond dream college, asking out that girl you just met, signing enlistment papers, moving to the other side of the world - state - city, deciding to be a parent-then deciding to do it again, and again, changing careers instead of checking out retirement options.
And yet we jump.
Recently, talking to my agent I asked, "Am I delusional?" She laughed and said, "No, you have a vision."
But seriously, when that chant of "This is crazy" gets to going, don't you feel delusional? I sure do. And if I'm not careful I can let the fear of being delusional keep me from jumping. Making sure I'm connected with my vision helps me spot when I might actually be deluded. Good to remember.
What do you want to jump in to but fear of delusion is clouding your vision? Even harder for me to ask myself is this - Who in my life is ready to jump but I'm feeding their delusion monster?
Clark was right, for him jumping was crazy. But if it fits the vision we've been given, isn't it crazier not to jump?
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Friday, January 8, 2010
Two sides of Vision
In researching about hope, I came upon a quote which has me thinking this morning.
If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. --Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Yesterday we went to orientation at Georgia College and State University - the school Lizzy has transferred to. We will move her in tomorrow. We have become rather familiar with several Georgia colleges, and now have three kids in three different schools. I understand the need for good grades - I honestly do. But grades have just never been that important to me. That view has horrified many folks (even recently) but grades for the sake of grades never has really worked for me.
My parents didn't push grades - now failure wasn't taken lightly and the time I got my first car and two "D's" around the same time, Daddy told me that was not to happen again or the car would be sitting. No lecture or empty threats - he knew and I knew - I messed up. But all three of us graduated college, first generation in both sides of my family.
Grades for the sake of grades is like the sticks and assigned tasks in the quote above. Succeeding at school or a job, needs to be because we see the possibilities that success opens up. Where it will take us. It's about Vision.
But does true Vision also include the downside? What will happen if I don't keep going? In the quote - is the idea of failure to reach the "endless immensity of the sea" just as powerful?
This reminds me of a quote from John Greenleaf Whittier - For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been."
True vision having two sides has never occured to me. To hope and dream of the sea is only half the story. To fear never seeing it, is clearly just as powerful. Hmmm - I've got to think on this some more.
If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. --Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Yesterday we went to orientation at Georgia College and State University - the school Lizzy has transferred to. We will move her in tomorrow. We have become rather familiar with several Georgia colleges, and now have three kids in three different schools. I understand the need for good grades - I honestly do. But grades have just never been that important to me. That view has horrified many folks (even recently) but grades for the sake of grades never has really worked for me.
My parents didn't push grades - now failure wasn't taken lightly and the time I got my first car and two "D's" around the same time, Daddy told me that was not to happen again or the car would be sitting. No lecture or empty threats - he knew and I knew - I messed up. But all three of us graduated college, first generation in both sides of my family.
Grades for the sake of grades is like the sticks and assigned tasks in the quote above. Succeeding at school or a job, needs to be because we see the possibilities that success opens up. Where it will take us. It's about Vision.
But does true Vision also include the downside? What will happen if I don't keep going? In the quote - is the idea of failure to reach the "endless immensity of the sea" just as powerful?
This reminds me of a quote from John Greenleaf Whittier - For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been."
True vision having two sides has never occured to me. To hope and dream of the sea is only half the story. To fear never seeing it, is clearly just as powerful. Hmmm - I've got to think on this some more.
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