Convision... what??!!!

Happy New Year! Here's wishing everyone a year full of good food, good fun and good friends!

Thanks Kelvin for alerting me to the fact that I have a blog!

I have been doing some research, talking to people... about work, business, life and living. Alot to talk about, I know, and alot to think about as well.

Of the many conclusions I have arrived at in regard to what differentiates leaders from non-leaders is one I want to mention today... CONVISION, that is, the vision to have confidence and confidence to have a vision.

What do I mean by "vision to have confidence"? Well, many people hide behind the present and the past because, simply, that is what they are familiar with, what they are comfortable with. What if people laugh at my vision, what if people think I am arrogant to have a vision, what if the vision can't be realised, what if ... what if... what if...! Enough already.

I am sure if I sat a group of people down in a game and made them think of all the wonderful, unbelievable, whacky things they would like their company to become, they would generate great ideas that could become successful realities. Why? Because they know that it is a game and their ideas would not leak out from the four walls of the room we are in.

But I tell you, try this on your own for a few minutes a day. Build that confidence on your own. You will feel liberated, and if an idea comes up enough times in the various "wild, whacky moments", believe me... you will start saying to yourself "Hmmm... why not!" You will start to have the vision of yourself as a confident leader. That is the "vision to have confidence" part achieved.

What about "confidence to have a vision"? Well that comes naturally after you have achieved the first stage. Once you can visualise (vision... visualise... see where I am coming from and getting at?) yourself as a confident leader, you will act confidently and you will start questioning the status quo rather than trying to find ways to fit into the status quo.... you are on the way to create your own vision.

You will start to define your reality!!

Then there's other characteristics of a leader... exuberance, sparkle, doggedness... but that's for another blog...


So start defining your reality today!

Have fun

June