A person can hold a vivid picture of the future and still have no idea what to do on Monday morning. The picture may be specific. It may have survived doubt. It may be held with genuine resolve. None of that matters if it has not been translated into positions that can be measured, missed, or met.

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.