Vision and Goals

Our current politics, and business, is surfacing some interesting thoughts for me.

We all get the "vision thing" - and indeed it's foundational to something worthwhile in the long term.

But it's difficult to have a vision when you're uncomfortable, or under threat.

For most people, Visions are created from places of stillness and relative certainty, when the mind and imagination can be fully harnessed.

When we're uncomfortable, we need a goal. To be somewhere clear and definable, that is different to where we are right now.

BREXIT is a good example. For a (far too long) time, we have been procrastinating about what sort of "out of the EU" we want. We have been entertaining visions, when what was needed was goals.

Whatever one might think of Boris (and, to be fair, what I think is not really printable) he has tapped into a goal. "Out by 31 October, come what may"

That goal may inspire you, or horrify you but it's unlikely to leave you indifferent. It creates movement and energy and those who …