“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” — Japanese Proverb

Thoughts on Today’s Quote

Dreams can be a wonderful thing to behold. They tell us where we want to go. If they are strong enough, they can tell us how we envision the goal we have in mind. The picture can be so vivid we can almost feel like it is already happening.

Dreams don’t provide a path to the goal. They don’t envision the twists and turns. Or the myriad of little steps we have to take before we can leap across the threshold of the end result.

In order for the dream to become real, we need to develop a vision.

The vision answers the questions about how to get to the dream result.

You need to know your starting point. You need to know who and where you are today.

You need to know the target point. Where and who you want to be when you arrive there.

You need to know who to surround yourself with in order to arrive at the target point. The people who can help you and who you can help get to their target points. You don’t need people around you who don’t support where you are going, they will make you doubt yourself.

You need to determine what you need in order to get to your goal.

You need to know, or at least start to anticipate, the steps you need to take to get to that target point. You might get some steps wrong and have to retrace and take different ones but you need to start somewhere.

You need to chart your tentative timeline for reaching that goal.

You need to know why you want to reach the dreamed for goal. You need to know the purpose of the journey.

MOST IMPORTANTLY — you need to take action. Without action the rest of the work is just planning without purpose. It’s time wasting. It just expands on the daydreams of the goal.

So, what if you just want to get to where you are going and to heck with all that planning stuff?

Ever get into a field with high plants all around and no landmarks in sight?

Or in the middle of the dessert and all you can see is sand for miles?

Or even out on the ocean without land in sight?

It’s disorienting. You don’t know for sure which way to turn. If you just pick a direction and head there, you are never sure if the direction is right or if you will ever arrive.

In other words, that journey just became a nightmare. Action without vision is a nightmare.

To get to our goals in life, we need to dream what they will look like, plan the path and take action.

What action have you taken toward your goal(s)?

Who is Japanese Proverb?

The actual author of this quote is unknown.

*I will try to find information on the author of the quotes I share. I wont always be successful.

Don’t know about you, but I find it interesting to know who the person was that anyone took the time to record or quote that person.*

About Coffee Time Meditation

I love being inspired by other people’s quotes. I thought I’d start sharing some quotes that inspire me along with my own thoughts the quote evokes within me. So, think of someone, like me, sitting quietly with the first fresh coffee of the day and mediating about the words of the quote. That would be me, or it could be you.

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