What is vision ?

Many successful people lived without vision. They just dream what they wanted to be. Is it different between dream and vision ?

Some people might say that dream is different with vision. Some may say it is the same. So, is there any differences between both of them ? I don't want to bring many arguments about dream and vision. Some culture differentiate the terminology dream and vision because their native languages does the difference. Therefore, I just want to keep the word "vision" and define is as a part of leadership. Today, I want to share about - what is vision is.

Most people said that vision is a long term dream, long term sight what we want to be. It is usually within 10 years, or more, or it maybe an everlasting dream. We should put our vision as a general terminology and big for our reach. Some people say that people should bring the vision as realistic as you can. For example, "being a person who always please God" is a truly general vision and "being an educator who can help the handicap to please God as our creator" is a specific personal vision.

Specific means you know WHAT you wanna be and you know WHY you wanna be that way, you know WHEN you wanna be, you know WHO you wanna be and you know HOW you wanna be.

My vision is being an educator who please God in my interest, related to Industrial Engineering and Information System. my WHAT answer is educator. my WHY is related to the education condition in Indonesia, especially in the christianity industrial context. my WHEN is something that I'm not defined in my vision. It means, I can do it anytime that God sent me to do the things I described. the WHO is precisely as mentioned as in my vision, to please God. It means WHO represents GOD. And the HOW is a process that I'm doing right now as a student in Industrial Engineering.

It is not easy to find our vision. We should pray and find some times to communicate and understand the word of God to know what is His willing unto our lives. And, try to use those words, as I explained above, as the directive to define your vision.

Will our vision change ? Yes, it will change due to time and condition. Is it wrong ? I don't think that it is bad to change our vision. So, don't afraid to put the vision in your life now. Think more and pray more, so you can have a vision within this year through. Year 2008 has come. So, let's do something great in this year coming and put a target of ourself to achieve our vision in the next couple of years.

Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam - 2008