http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Tony_Mckeown Tony Mckeown is a personal life coach and director of coaching 4 life New Zealand. He has a passion for empowering people to find their life mission and purpose. He has authored training manuals, motivational articles, numerous e-books and regularly hosts international tele-classes and conferences on vision. His practical approach to spirituality and leadership development are key qualities organisations seek him to impart. His clients are world-wide. The author can be contacted online. His free monthly newsletter "get a life",is by subscription and provides free motivational downloads from his coaching site: http://www.coaching4life.net.nz http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ Great players in a game are the ones that always seem to have time to spare. They have the same time as any of the other players but their capacity to anticipate the next phase of play is what gives them the time. Wed, 04 May 2005 10:37:12 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Making-A-Lot-Out-Of-A-Little-Use-It-Or-Lose-It&id=33228 http://ezinearticles.com/?Making-A-Lot-Out-Of-A-Little-Use-It-Or-Lose-It&id=33228 An organisation that has not established its core values and vision will unlikely keep visionaries within it. Visionaries will likely take less pay, work longer hours and suffer extreme circumstances that none-visionaries would quit over. Why is that? Because the "buy in" factor, goes way beyond natural circumstances and into the realms of values. Value in a natural sense is something we put a price on, whereas vision is priceless. Tue, 03 May 2005 06:17:09 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Synergy-of-Vision&id=33277 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Synergy-of-Vision&id=33277 I have watched four of my children grow from being dependent upon my support and advice, to now making their own decisions and plans without so much as a conversation with me. The plans I held for their lives have in part come to pass and in other areas not so. As a parent of vision, we too must recognize that other dynamics play a part within the whole. Tue, 03 May 2005 06:15:01 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Six-Keys-To-Build-Vision-Point-Six&id=33272 http://ezinearticles.com/?Six-Keys-To-Build-Vision-Point-Six&id=33272 The Japanese have several traditions. One is binding the feet of babies in order to keep them small in later life. Bonsai is a process of miniaturizing the root system of plants and trees so as to allow the characteristics of a full-grown tree but in a stunted form. Vision must fully mature unstunted Tue, 03 May 2005 06:14:43 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Six-Keys-To-Build-Vision-Point-Five&id=33271 http://ezinearticles.com/?Six-Keys-To-Build-Vision-Point-Five&id=33271 When in the midst of the kinetic like activities that vision attracts, it is all too easy to lose sight of its humble beginnings. Many an individual and organization has learned to its own demise, that moving into other opportunities that we are neither skilled nor gifted in will often result in something that we never intended to take place. It is at such a point we need to ask the questions before we continue down the pathway presented to us. Tue, 03 May 2005 06:14:06 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Six-keys-to-keys-build-vision-point-four&id=33270 http://ezinearticles.com/?Six-keys-to-keys-build-vision-point-four&id=33270 "Great minds do not think alike" Great minds think! Prayer is focusing ones attention on the larger picture. It takes self and our pre-occupations out of the picture and replaces our affections on the possibilities of what can be. The word meditation has the same root meaning as the word ruminates. Cows have four stomachs, and rumination is the process of breaking down the cud, which they are digesting. After a period of digestion, the food is regurgitated from one stomach and into another. The purpose of this is to break down the potentially dangerous acids and provide the animal with the maximum benefit from their food. Tue, 03 May 2005 06:11:37 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Six-Keys-To-Build-Vision-Point-Three&id=33268 http://ezinearticles.com/?Six-Keys-To-Build-Vision-Point-Three&id=33268 Living life based purely on our own personal needs is really living life at the most primitive level. It makes no allowance for the wonder of investing into our fellow humans beings and the generations yet to come. The inheritance we leave behind is the materials that another generation will build upon. One of the reasons I love writing, is it is my personal investment to those who find my life helpful to theirs. Tue, 03 May 2005 06:10:13 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Six-Keys-To-Build-Vision-Point-Two&id=33265 http://ezinearticles.com/?Six-Keys-To-Build-Vision-Point-Two&id=33265 Living life without a defined purpose is like setting out on a journey without the use of a compass or map. It may well provide excitement for the first few days or weeks, but after thirty, forty or fifty years! Tue, 03 May 2005 06:09:54 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Six-Keys-to-build-vision-(overview-and-point-one)&id=33264 http://ezinearticles.com/?Six-Keys-to-build-vision-(overview-and-point-one)&id=33264 The old adage of "fail to plan = plan to fail" rings so true in any area of life. Success has persistence as its guide. Perhaps the single most important factor in a successful persons life, is self-discipline. Observe the daily routine of an individual, and you can quickly determine their probable outcome. Sun, 20 Feb 2005 07:29:47 -0600 http://ezinearticles.com/?Defining-and-Feeling-Successful-(However-you-define-success)&id=15332 http://ezinearticles.com/?Defining-and-Feeling-Successful-(However-you-define-success)&id=15332 Living life without a defined purpose is like setting out on a journey without a compass or map. It may be exciting at first and you might get lucky - but as the days, weeks, years pass - the feeling of being lost or having no direction is overwhelming! Unfortunately for some this is a daily existence, a disjointed journey of lucky - or unlucky events. So many people live life that way, and it is life in it's poorest form. Fortunately, there is another way - you can set your compass and pick up that map - you can play the part you were meant for! Fri, 28 Jan 2005 05:31:00 -0600 http://ezinearticles.com/?Empowering-Vision&id=11746 http://ezinearticles.com/?Empowering-Vision&id=11746 Copyright 2008 EzineArticles.com - All Rights Reserved.