.

.

To create a vision is using the imagination to create a mental image of what the future could be like

• Vision (noun): The ability to think or plan the future with imagination or wisdom. A mental image of what the future will or could be like.  Oxford Dictionary
• Imagination,  Vision,  Visualisation,  Clarity,  Dreaming,  The future

.

Imagination is a magical and potent force

• Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe. Albert Einstein
• Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein
• Imagination is the highest kite we can fly. Lauren Bacall
• The man who has no imagination has no wings. Mohammad Ali
• To know is nothing. To imagine is everything. Anatole France
• To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories. Stephen Covey
• Live out of your imagination, not your history. Stephen Covey
• Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. Adele Brookman
• Imagination is the fundamental expressive tool of the soul. Bruce L. Moon
• Imagination is the true magic carpet. Norman Vincent Peale
• The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. Henry Ward Beecher
• Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions. Albert Einstein
• Imagination,  Magic

.

Our imaginations are limitless

• Your knowledge has limits but your imagination does not. Geraint Straker
• The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• In imagination, there’s no limitation. Mark Victor Hansen
• Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. Albert Einstein
• The power of imagination makes us infinite. John Muir

.

Our imaginations help us to crystallize life’s possibilities

• The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen. What it waits on is human imagination to crystallize its possibility. Leland Kaiser
• Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities. Robert H. Schuller
• Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us. Stephen Covey
• We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
• Possibility

.

.

You can have, be and achieve whatever you imagine…

• You can have, be and do whatever you imagine. Thought is pure energy. Every thought is creative. Neale Donald Walsch
• You can’t do it unless you imagine it. George Lucas
• Name it…and if you can dream it… you can achieve it. Wayne Dyer
• Before you can do something that you’ve never done before, you have to imagine it’s possible. Jean Shinoda Bolen
• We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it. Donald Curtis
• What you are able to think and perceive, defines the limitation of what you are able to achieve. Richard Bartlett
• If you have the ability to imagine it, or even to think about it, this Universe has the ability and the resources to deliver it fully unto you. Esther and Jerry Hicks
• The only thing limiting your aspiration is your imagination. Stephen Richards
• If the vision is there, the means will follow. Faith Popcorn
• He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it. James Allen
• What we vividly imagine, ardently desire, enthusiastically act upon, must inevitably come to pass. Colin P. Sisson
• Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso

.

… for all great things are created twice: first in the mind, then in reality

• To liberate the potential of your mind, body and soul, you must first expand your imagination. You see, things are always created twice: first in the workshop of the mind and then, and only then, in reality. I call this process ‘blueprinting’ because anything you create in your outer world began as a simple blueprint in your inner world. Robin Sharma
• Begin with the end in mind is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things. Stephen Covey
• You’ve got to win in your mind before you win in your life. John Addison
• The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Winston Churchill
• Begin with the end in mind

.

Harness the power of your imagination to create the future you desire …

• Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. George Bernard Shaw
• The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities. Frank Barron
• All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth. Napoleon Hill
• The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
• It is through the imagination that the formless takes form. Catherine Ponder
• It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe. Barry Lopez
• This world is but a canvas to our imaginations. Henry David Thoreau
• No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it. Richard Bach
• The future you see is the future you get. Robert G. Allen
• The future

.

… by creating a crystal-clear vision of what you want the future to hold

• Like a great athlete, we must have a very clear vision of what we want to accomplish before we make a move. Vision, in preparation for an action, is as important as the action itself. Marianne Williamson
• The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building – steadily building. Robert Collier
• In this respect, clarity is terribly important. Successful people have tremendous clarity about who they are, what they want, and how they are going to get it. Unsuccessful people usually are unsure and confused about who they are, what they want, and where they are going. Brian Tracy
• One powerful exercise you can practice to supercharge your thinking and accelerate your results is called idealization. In idealization you continually imagine the perfect outcome or solution for any situation in your life. You project forward three to five years, or even further, and then create a mental picture of the kind of life and career that would be ideal for you in every respect. Brian Tracy
• The way you create any outcome in your life is to hold the vision of your deepest desires. At the same time, though, you must honestly and accurately assess your current situation and how it relates to your greater vision. By doing this, you engage tension between what is and what can be. This tension is the primary creative force behind the manifestation of any outcome. It’s as natural and powerful as the force of gravity. David Emerald
• Imagine for a moment your own version of a perfect future. See yourself in that future with everything you could wish for at this very moment fulfilled. Now take the memory of that future and bring it here into the present. Let it influence how you will behave from this moment on. Deepak Chopra
• Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind’s eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it. Charles A. Garfield
• All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. Brian Tracy
• Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose. Bo Bennett
• Turn on your dream machine. Create mental pictures of what you want. Peter. J. Daniels
• If you don’t know where you are going, then how will you get there? VISUALISE! Make pictures in your mind. See the desination. Imagine your arrival. Dream in perfect detail. See yourself the way you want to be when you arrive. See yourself arriving. Make yourself a road map and study it every day until you know the way and the destination by heart. Bryce Courtenay
• The future you see is the future you get. Robert G Allen
• Imagining what you want as if it already exists opens the door to letting it happen. Shakti Gawain
• If you don’t make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default. Stephen Covey
• The sooner you have a clear vision of what you want to be and the contributions you want to make, the more effective you’ll be in your life.  Stephen Covey
• In every block of marble, I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it. Michelangelo
• Vision

.

.

Visualisation greatly increases our chances of success

• The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind. Norman Vincent Peale
• When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative “success mechanism” within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or “willpower.” Maxwell Maltz
• Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture. Norman Vincent Peale
• Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be. Harry Emerson Fosdick
• View the practice of contemplation as action, rather than as passive mental meandering. An hour a day throwing a bowling ball is action that leads to a higher bowling average; a few moments several times a day musing about what you intend to manifest in some area of your life will have precisely the same effect on your manifesting average. Contemplation is action. It’s necessary mind training for the implementation of anything you desire. Wayne Dyer
• Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before they actually do it. They begin with the end in mind. Stephen Covey
• By picturing ourselves creating at our highest levels, imagining the finished product and the deep joy that comes from creating, we move closer to our dreams. Visualizing the end result from our creative effort helps us achieve it. Salli Rasberry
• It is becoming more and more accepted that the pictures we hold in our minds about ourselves affect our neural patterns and self-image, which themselves are critical elements for determining what we perceive and how comfortable we feel about change. David Allen
• If you can’t see it, before you see it, you’ll never see it. Jack Graham
• Visualization, that seeing of that which is not yet, is essential for the attainment of all the good that man may aspire to. Tehilla Lichtenstei
• Thinking in images creates fire in the mind, visions in the soul and energy in the body. Dr Jean Houston
• The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work; then the faith and belief that it can work; then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one doubt or disbelief. Eileen Caddy
• To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form. Henry Ford
• Visualisation

.

Play your visions over and over.  Cherish and refine them.

• Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself. Maxwell Maltz
• Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. Napoleon Hill
• Cherish your visions. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, for out of that will grow all delightful conditions; if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built. James Allen
• When you run inspiring, imaginative pictures through the movie screen of your mind, wonderful things start to happen in your life. Einstein said that ‘imagination is more important than knowledge.’ You must spend some time every day, even if it is just a few minutes, in the practice of creative envisioning. See yourself as you want to be, whether this means serving as a great judge, a great father or a great citizen of your community. Robin Sharma
• The more you practice visualization the better you get at it. Jeffery A. Martin
• If you want to access your full range of power, then commit to dreaming about your ideal life. Your subconscious and articulated desires are veins of gold that lead to whatever you want to call prosperity. Danielle LaPorte

.

.

A vision can transform our lives into something beautiful

• A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman’s sink and a brilliant sculpture. Bob Kall
• He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it. Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become… James Allen

.

Use your vision to motivate you and inspire action

• Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.  Warren Bennis  
• A vision without a task is but a dream, a task without a vision is drudgery, a vision and a task is the hope of the world. From a church in Sussex, England, 1730
• Vision without a task is only a dream. A task without a vision is but drudgery. But vision with a task is a dream fulfilled. Willie Stone
• Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. Japanese proverb
• Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference. Joel Barker
• All I know, is that the first step is to create the vision, because when you see the vision there—the beautiful vision—that creates the ‘want power.’ For example, my wanting to be Mr. Universe came about because I saw myself so clearly, being up there on stage and winning. Arnold Schwarzenegger
• If you have built your castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Per Thoreau
• In my experience, there’s only one thing that will always steer you toward success: That’s to have a vision and to stick with it… Once I have a vision for a new venture, I’m going to ride that vision until the wheels come off. Russell Simmons
• Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization. Brian Tracy
• Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. Florence Scovel Shinn
• The idea is to seek a vision that gives you purpose in life and then to implement that vision. The vision by itself is one half, one part, of a process. It implies the necessity of living that vision, otherwise the vision will sink back into itself.– Lewis P. Johnson
• Poor eyes limit your sight; poor vision limits your deeds. Franklin Field
• In order to make a visualization a reality in the world of form, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen.  Wayne Dyer
• No one lives on the top of the mountain. It’s fine to go there occasionally —for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That’s where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the ploughing and the work is done. That’s where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks. Arthur Gordon
• One of the most powerful wellsprings of creative energy, outstanding accomplishment, and self- fulfillment seems to be falling in love with something – your dreams, your image of the future. E. Paul Torrance
• The way you create any outcome in your life is to hold the vision of your deepest desires. At the same time, though, you must honestly and accurately assess your current situation and how it relates to your greater vision. By doing this, you engage tension between what is and what can be. This tension is the primary creative force behind the manifestation of any outcome. It’s as natural and powerful as the force of gravity. David Emerald
• Motivation,  Inspiration

.

Believe that your vision will be realised

• Dreaming is not enough. You have to go a step further and use your imagination to visualize, with intent! Forget everything you’ve ever been taught, and believe it will happen, just as you imagined it. That is the secret. That is the mystery of life. Christine Anderson
• When constructing your visualizations you should only use positive thoughts and intent, and you should see what you desire as already being yours. Jeffery A. Martin
• Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it, you will do it. Charles Fillmore
• Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.  Vision looks upward and becomes faith.  Stephen S. Wise
• Self-belief

.

.

To create your vision, answer these questions on an ongoing basis

• If everything went perfectly in my life, you worked hard, embodied the ideals you know to be true, how would your life look like in 10 years?
• If you were wildly successful in the coming years, what do you imagine or see yourself doing or being?
• What is the biggest and best thing you can imagine for yourself?
• What’s your ideal day look like? When do you get up? What do you do? With whom? For whom?
• If everything went incredibly, splendidly right, what would your life look like?
• Who will you have to become to achieve all you want?
• If you could wave a magic wand and have whatever you wished for in any part of your life, what would it be?
• If you could design your perfect lifestyle… what would it look like?
• If you knew you could have it all and do anything you wanted, what would you choose to have and what would you choose to do? Deepak Chopra
• If you were absolutely guaranteed to succeed, what would you dare to dream and to do?
• What does success look and feel like?
• What are you most proud of? What will you be most proud of?
• What would you like to do before you die?
• What skills would you love to develop?
• What does the highest version of my biggest vision look like?
• What is the optimal life? How do you live this life?
• In the case of a project or business: What is the highest vision for this project or for this business?
• What is your highest vision for your life?
• What must you become in order to manifest this vision? What qualities must you cultivate?
• What must you release to manifest this vision? This may include habits, mind-sets, compulsive behaviors.
• What talents, gifts, skills, and qualities do you already possess that will serve this vision?
• How can you make your vision vividly real?
• What can you do to start living your ideal life?
• What one-sentence inscription would you like to see on your tombstone that would capture who you really were in your life?
• Imagine your 80th birthday. Who will be there with you? What are the top three things you’d like people to say about you?
• What will your life/work look like in the future? What will your life/work be like in 5 years? 10 years? 20 years?
• What will your grandchildren say about you?
• Do you need anyone to help you achieve this vision?
• How will you feel about yourself when you achieve this lifestyle?
• When do you want this vision to materialize?
• If you were to write your eulogy, what would it say?

.

An exercise to try: Your Best Possible Self  

• This is a mental exercise in which you visualise the best possible future for yourself in multiple domains of your life. You imagine yourself in the future, after everything has gone as well as it possibly could.  You have worked hard and succeeded at accomplishing all your life goals.  Think of this as the realisation of your life dreams, and of your best potentials.
• An advantage of the Best Possible Selves exercise is that it is conducted through writing. Because writing is highly structured systematic, and rule bound, it prompts you to analyse your thoughts in a way that would be difficult, if not impossible, to do if you were just fantasising.
• Writing about your dreams helps you to better understand your priorities, your emotions, and your motives, your identity, who you really are and what’s in your heart.
• Research showed that people who wrote about their visions for twenty minutes per day over several days, relative to those who wrote about other topics, were more likely to show immediate increases in positive moods, to be happier several weeks later, and even to report fewer physical ailments several months thence.
• Source: “The How of Happiness” by Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Envision the person you want to become 

.

• Standing in the inspiring vision of my future, I boldly take every step – large and small – with courage and intent. Jonathan Lockwood Huie