95. Hold your vision accountable

“It’s not what a vision is,” says Robert Fritz “it’s what a vision does.”

What does your vision do? Does it give you energy? Does it make you smile? Does it get you up in the morning? When you’re tired, does it take you that extra mile? A vision should be judged by these criteria, the criteria of power and effectiveness. What does it do?

Robert Fritz is widely quoted in Peter Senge’s business masterpiece, The Fifth Discipline. Fritz is a former musician who has taken the basic principles of creativity in music composition and applied them to creating a successful professional life. Life gets good, he argues, when we get clear on what we want to create.

Most people spend most of their waking hours trying to make ...

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