In the beginning, vision for my life was just to do something valuable, something purposeful. If somebody were to ask me “What's the meaning of life?”, I would've said, "Hey man, do better. Do better, BE better, and help somebody. Do something valuable, do something purposeful."
I quit worrying about me and my problems, and I had a lot of them. I would say I was an idiot, and I was trying hard in a lot of ways, but I was not very wise and made a lot of mistakes. As my vision for my life started to shift to helping somebody, doing something purposeful, doing something valuable… That began to set me free and my life started to straighten out.
And the truth is, it's no different now, I just have it really clearly defined. I continued to work down to the roots of the idea of “vision”, which was defining who I am and my strongest beliefs, my values. How can you create a vision that will work in your life, if you don’t know who you are and what you believe in? I created my “code”, that states exactly who I am, what I believe, and how I’m going to live that out in my life. Having strengthened the roots, my vision had the power to become reality in my life.
That doesn't mean that I don't make mistakes, because I screw it up all the time, but at least I have this accountability in what I said is truth in my life to aim at every day. I understand what my calling is, what my purpose is, what my design is, and I think in the culture today we would call that vision. S&H
Keep Coming Forward
Jimmy Hensel
