Make Use of Your Vision and Resolve

Dear loving people,

Today, I talk to you about a powerful combination of VISION and RESOLUTION. 

A VISION is a picture or idea you have in your mind of yourself, your business, or anything this is going to happen. A clear vision helps you pursue dreams and achieve goals; an idea of the future, a strong wish. A vision that is clear will open your mind to the endless possibilities of the future. A vision will help you to overcome obstacles in the way and helps you hold on when times are tough.

RESOLUTION is ‘the act of determining.’ Abraham Lincoln said that your current situation doesn’t matter as much as that YOU DETERMINE that you will succeed. He was saying that no matter who says you can or cannot fail that YOU hold more power than ANY OUTSIDE INFLUENCE as to your own success. 

Abraham Lincoln knew from experience what he was talking about. He was born in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky to poor parents. Although being born in poverty and losing his mother at age 9, somehow that didn’t affect his resolve. Did you know that before becoming elected the 16^th President of the United States of America, he lost 8 elections? How many of you would lose 8 elections and keep going? Previously in my life, I quit often…sometimes at the first sign of adversity. But Lincoln had a “resolution” to succeed. 

Your history books will tell you that the Television was not invented by a single inventor, instead many people working together and alone over the years, contributed to the evolution of television. But guess what? It all started as an idea in the heads of three people whose vision and resolve made it happen in the physical world.

A German engineering student, Paul Nipkow proposed and patented the world's first mechanical television system in 1884. Paul Nipkow devised the notion of dissecting the image and transmitting it sequentially. To do this he designed the first television scanning device. Paul Nipkow was the first person to discover television's scanning principle, in which the light intensities of small portions of an image are successively analyzed and transmitted.

John Logie Baird was perhaps the most remarkable inventor in the early history of television. In a period of scarcely three years from 1924 to 1927, he invented the first successful mechanical-electric television system, infrared television (dubbed "Noctovision"), stereoscopic television, and the earliest means of recording a television signal, Phonovision.

What John Logie Baird did towards the development and promotion of mechanical television in Great Britain, Charles Jenkins did for the advancement of mechanical television in North America. Charles Jenkins, an inventor from Dayton, Ohio, invented a mechanical television system called radiovision and claimed to have transmitted the earliest moving silhouette images on June 14, 1923. Charles Jenkins publicly performed his first television broadcast transmission, from Anacosta, Virginia to Washington in June, 1925.

What linked these three together was their vision and resolve to change humanity. It is these two qualities that make them today to be referred to as the fathers of television.

In the same light, “you are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand”. This is what Woodrow Wilson says and I think he is very correct. You must work at all times to leave the world much better that you ever met them.

James Allen goes further to say “The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.”

James is just more than right, inventions such as the television are ideas acted upon by visionary men and women who had the resolve to push their visions to reality.

When you conceive an idea, it can only become useful if you cut it out and try it in the physical world to have a concrete result.

Living Lectures was once an idea six years ago, its only becoming a reality because I decided in 2011 to transform that well thought out idea into a physical reality. We’ve had an average of 500 people reading our postings monthly; we’ve received a total of 5003 emails and we will be delivering a keynote to an audience of 1500 people in the UK in April 2012.

No matter your ideas now, no matter your present situation, you can transform your ideas into commodities or services that will forever advance the course of humanity if you stick to your vision and resolve to do so.

As you step into 2012 and beyond, let Vision and Resolve be a central part of your guiding principles.