Your vision will lead you through the inevitable failures and false leads that will beset your progress and that would cause you to give up if you had merely set goals and not written your vision in vivid pictures on the tables of your subconsious mind.

Having a vision is ultimately about how you see yourself, and it is that vision that will bring you through whatever tribulations you must face on the path that is set before you.

The surgeon Maxwell Maltz, who wrote Psycho-Cybernetics, a bestselling "self image psychology" bible, discussed the way in which mistakes and wrong turns serve a vital function in the successful achievement of one's "self-image" or vision.

The first thing to understand is that,

"YOU make mistakes, mistakes don't make YOU - anything."

Tiger Woods, a man who has spent much of his life in the company of great mentors, talks about failure like this:

"The most we can ask of ourselves is to give it our best shot, knowing that sometimes we will fail. We are often defined by how we handle that failure."

So your mistakes should not affect your vision, your "great expectations" of achieving your clearly seen goals.

In fact, if you have a clear vision, your mistakes serve an important function which actually contributes to your eventual success, rather like a servo-mechanism in a rocket. Your "mistakes" are like "negative feedback" that tells you that "you need to take corrective action to get back on beam," as Maxwell Maltz explains:

"If negative feedback is working properly, a missile or a torpedo reacts to 'criticism' just enough to correct course, and keeps going forward towards the target. This course will be... a series of zig-zags."

Similarly, our vision provides us with an inbuilt "servo-mechanism" that gets us zig-zagging towards our goal, with the aid of negative feedback.

When Matt Morris discovered that "vision" was the key to achieving "goals" he "forever broke the shackles of poverty" from his life. He went on to found Success University and turn it into the most popular personal development website on the Internet in its first year of business.

You too, can do great things, provided that you write your own vision, make it plain upon on the tables of your subconscious and run with it until you see it made manifest in your life.

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