Is vision alone enough?

However, over my years in business I have heard many (well intended)speakers extrapolate from that saying, though, and end up at a conclusion that experience tells me is not true. You may have heard these statements too. Things like,"if you just dream big enough it will come to pass." Or, "if you can dream it, you can do it." If this is so, then why are there so many dreamers who dreamed big, that do not see their dreams come to pass?
It is impossible to give a single answer that fits for each specific case. But I have consistently found a missing element, and I hope you can profit from knowing this as well. That element is process. To borrow a phrase from the TV series, Monk, "here's what happens".
Some people are more naturally process oriented than others, just like some are more naturally suited to cook, play piano, or hit home runs. They dream big, they either learn or devise processes that support that dream, and never think about the fact that those processes, as natural to them as breathing itself, were the support mechanisms that enabled their dreams, their success.
Others, those to whom those processes were totally unnatural, were just as excited as everyone else ... in the beginning. But as others move forward while they stayed behind, they were blind to the missing element that made the difference. By recognizing these people for the potential winners they can be, and by focusing on the right area, they will no longer have to watch success from the side lines.
You see, most of business success is not achieved in the excitement of the dream. Indeed, the motivation may come from there. But the actual success itself is derived from the often dull, routine,day-to-day hum-drum processes that must occur over and over. As an article I recently read mentioned, "a monkey could do my job". Yes,that is where success is achieved. And when we do it for the millionth time, and the fruit of that consistency rolls in, what once seemed a dull routine polishes up like a diamond in the rough.
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