Vision is the ability to see your surroundings and where you are heading. Visualization is key to creating positive growth and requires practice and refinement. The clearer your vision, the more certain you will be about the present and about the future.

By whichever means you guide your ideas along the visualization track, you can only

navigate your course successfully by relying on an accurate vision and by disseminating it throughout your workplace.

Professional driving schools teach students that their vehicle follows their eyes. When navigating an obstacle course at high speed, drivers do not have time to consider every turn of their steering wheel. Instead, they learn that by simply looking to where they want to go, they automatically steer toward where their attention is focused.

Concentrating your attention in order to steer yourself in a desired direction – whether on a racecourse or in the workplace – is the act of visualizing. 

The preceding is an excerpt from Work Can Be a Playground, Not a Prison: Professional Edition 

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