This is one of life's real truths-if you don't see something, you generally don't "get it", yes literally (and figuratively). But if you can see it, you can go after it with real conviction. That's why visionaries are so admired in business and in life...because they show others the way to see things that many wish we could see for oureslves.
My son has reached the age of so called perfect vision, the age of 20 (as in "20/20")...pls see today's Rhyme of Passion. Now i don't literally believe there is any age where we have "perfect vision, perfect clarity"(maybe only in the form of wisdom and that's with age looking back), but i think around the age of 20, most parents hope their kids start to look into the future, at least alittle bit, to see what it is they want to be about as they grow-up. I am not talking about this in career terms, but in life terms. In figuring things out terms. In prioritizing terms.
Life, as all adults know, is a continuous challenge of balancing responsibility-financial, emotional, social and clearly personal. And, while 20 is young to start the "balancing act" and bearing all that much responsibility, it seems like a good age to start. At least, it's an age to start looking at it...with both eyes open!
At my son's age my father had World War Two on his shoulders...i never had to deal with anything like that at 20, but given the world we live in today-constant threat of terrorism, two wars, economic security and job outlook in question -not to prepare our kids to be ready for anything, not to start preparing them to see the future for themselves as early as reasonable, given again the world today, would not be, how shall i say, "visionary"!
