One vision is one version

Being a parent requires having vision.

If being a parent is the highest priority, then all other activities are strategies that promote this.

Becoming a partner and/or spouse is a strategy to be a better parent. A chosen profession is a strategy to be a better parent.

Aligning the ability to find enjoyment by contributing to the lives of others is a strategy because children get to see this habit in their parents and emulate it.

Maintaining health, starting a business, choosing where to live, deciding how often to travel, etc.

Imagining how this all plays out and then holding the image of it in the mind is considered having a vision.

The limitation to having a vision is that this is only one vision. This is only one version of how life can go.

There is an important distinction between having a vision and having vision.

It’s more important that we can see and less so about being attached to what we see.

There is a vision of life that includes our kids growing up. We can see ourselves getting to mentor them as they develop careers and have kids of their own. This vision (exercise of imagination) helps guide decisions that contribute to that image every day.

There is also a vision where our kids die tomorrow and today is the last opportunity to hold them. This is another version.

Vision is the ability to see potential versions of life, to hold the images in our mind for a moment, and to extract the lessons in advance to help us live better now.

Vision is humanity’s greatest gift.