Vision
is the ability to think about or plan the future with great imagination or
wisdom. It is also an ideal or goal toward which one aspires. There has now
been subject of comparison between Vision and Ambition; the former is God’s
design while the latter is an inordinate desire to achieve a particular aim or
objective. An ambition that is not in line with God’s design (Vision) for your
life will lead to problem for your destiny. Vision is the mental picture of a
better future.
“Where
there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is
he.” (Proverbs 29 verse 18 KJV). The phrase “Keep the Law” has to do with your attitude. Attitude
is a ‘mental set’ held by an individual which affect the way the person respond
to events and organizes his/her cognition(thought process). The extent to which
the person is prepared to act on the attitude that he or she holds is the
Behaviour. How you behave when you are left alone or when there is nobody with
you defines your attitude. Your attitude determines your Altitude – the height
or level of your attainable dreams for a better future.
Vision and anointing are not enough without a good character. When
a man loses character, then he has lost all. May you not lose your character.
How positive or negative is my character? Is my attitude helping or damaging my
vision? How disobedient, cheatable or stubborn am I? How godly or deadly is my
character? In what areas are people complaining about my character? These are
the questions you need to ask yourself and make corrections where necessary. 
A king once instructed the head of his loyal servants to select
children who are potent in skills, knowledge, and worthy in characters. He
wanted them to be trained in new skills in other for other generations to learn
from them too. Your skill and knowledge can take you to a very high position,
however it takes a good character to sustain you and keep you there. Among the
children selected, a particular person distinguished himself from others. Apart
from possessing all the above required credentials, he consolidated it with
good attitude.
One of the attribute you need to manage your vision aright is SELF
DISCIPLINE. You must possess the willpower or ability to control yourself. While
others engaged in all sorts of activities that can distract them from achieving
the major purpose they were chosen, the boy remained focused and didn’t join
the multitude. Do not let what you see or any environmental activities distract
you from making your vision come into reality. You have to “cost your
opportunities”; set priorities and disregard every other engagements that are
not of serious importance to you. Discipline requires sacrifice, you have to
let go of many things so as to reach your potential. Although discipline might
not be an easy task but it is a ladder you have to climb for your vision to
manifest.
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| Discipline is just choosing between "What you want NOW and What you want MOST". - Abraham Lincoln |
Another attribute you need to have in other to properly manage your vision is DILIGENCE. You must be diligent in your pursue to lead a good life. It is very important you add an extra output in other to get a bogus return. When others are crawling, that is the time for you to stand on your feet and walk. When your colleagues are walking, I expect you to run. When your counterparts are running, try as much as possible to outrun them at a higher speed and if possible take a flight at a very high attitude. A discipline and diligent person should not be idle when it is expected of him to work harder. Diligence is an important catalyst in achieving a better future. After the trainings and teachings, the young boy spent more time to put all the skills learned into practice, no wonder the common saying “practice done in a right way makes perfect”. The more time he spent on studying, the more he became an expert; this made him to stand out among his peers. He achieved greater feat than the others. 
Never underestimate God’s Factor! That should be your foundation.
This is very important because there is nothing that can be achieved without
God, we are nothing without Him. Consolidate the DISCIPLINE and DILIGENCE with
PRAYER. Let God be the Alpha and Omega of any journey you want to embark on.
With God you can do the impossible. The boy was able to achieve the impossible
because he placed God in a very high esteem in his heart and ways. Because of
his achievement in the training, the young boy joined the team of scholars and
wise men in the kingdom. In the course of his new attainment, a great challenge
came on his way, the king required someone that could tell him his dream, the
dream he himself couldn't even remember. The king threatened to kill all the
scholars and wise men in the land if they were unable to find a way of telling
the dreams. When people think a situation is over, God always looks for a way
to take over it, we only need to trust Him. The boy neither relied on his
wisdom, nor his understanding but instead decided to seek for the face of God.
If indeed you trust in God with all your heart, and at the same time you are discipline, diligent in your dealings, and communicate with Him in prayers, He will answer you. 
The boy called the name of his God in prayer, tendered his
supplication to God, and in return, He answered him and showed him greater and
mighty things, things he had never seen or heard before. He was showed
mysterious thing that was beyond his wisdom; or what should we say in a
situation where you are asked to relay a dream dreamt by someone that couldn’t
even remember his own dream? He was not
only able to relay the dream correctly, he was able to interpret the meaning of
the king’s dream, achievement the king’s wizards couldn’t achieve. As a result
of his attitude, the boy was speedily promoted to the position of the head of
king’s counsel in a strange land. The boy in this story was Daniel at Kingdom of Babylon in the Holy
Bible.
When you plan your future with great imagination and control it
with the ideal attitude, your future will be as bright as the sun. Remember
that when you have nothing to pursue, something will be pursuing you and you
might end up not having anything to possess in the process. Therefore I besiege
you to locate your vision and manage it with good attitude.
