A vision without a task is but a dream
A task without a vision is drudgery
A task with a vision is the hope of the world
– Inscription on a church in Sussex 1730
I’ve seen plenty who talk and talk and do nothing — what I like to call “all bark and no bite”. For some reason, this all bark and no bite attitude annoys the hell FUCK out of me. For those who don’t understand me, it’s the equivalent of nail screeching on glass, or that annoying person you dread running into by accident, <insert something really annoying to you here>. I differentiate myself from all-bark-and-no-bites by being the complete opposite — I favor a man of action and if I must, would want to fail because of action, not inaction. Do hold me to my words here, if I ever become what I swore I would never become.
By the same token, doing the same thing over and over without learning, improving, or worse *gasp* no vision, is settling for mediocrity — another sworn enemy of mine. If you don’t know where you want to go, then it won’t matter where you end up. And I know if I let that happen, odds are that I will end up somewhere I won’t like.
A vision, along with execution, is the perfect combination.