Every morning a person wakes up and decides whether to do the work, that person has created a system with a failure point built into every day. The decision may go well on Monday. It may hold on Tuesday. By Thursday, when sleep was short and the week has accumulated, the decision becomes harder—not because the commitment has changed, but because the conditions have.

Most people believe the hard part of visualization is seeing something ambitious. It is not. Ambitious visions are easy to maintain because they cost nothing. The courage in visualization arrives at the point of commitment—the moment a vision becomes specific enough to act on, it becomes specific enough to fail.