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3 Essentials for Long-Term Success

By October 10, 2011October 22nd, 2019Leadership, Organizational Leadership, Team Leadership

Do you want your organization to succeed? Do you want to personally succeed in your career? Do you want your marriage to thrive?

For long-term success in any area of life you must be:

Driven by vision

Vision sets the direction you will move. It’s the aim…the mission…the goal of what needs to be done to determine success as you’ve defined it. It’s your overall purpose. Vision is necessary with anything in which you care to succeed. I’ve written much about vision, mostly from an organizational sense, but it’s important to have a vision for every area of your life. You can read:

Bad Culture Eats Good Vision
Communicating My Personal Vision
Don’t Quit Your God-Given Vision

How secure is your vision today?

Grounded in values

Values protect your pursuit of the vision from chasing paths that do not fit the heart, history, reputation and DNA of the organization or individuals involved. It’s what grounds you and keeps you from running blindly. An organization’s values or your personal values may be different from my personal values. Determining what you value as an organization or for you personally is critical to continuing to succeed.

Do you know your values?

Fueled with passion

Let me be honest here. You can have a great vision and be grounded in the best values, but never succeed. Your organization will stall. Your marriage will fail. You will never personally achieve all you desire to achieve. You also need passion. You need motivation. You need momentum. Passion encourages you to discipline for the hard work of accomplishment. It’s what prompts you to do the tedious tasks of developing systems and strategies. It’s what fuels you on days you are ready to quit. When you lose your passion you lose your guts to weather the storms of life and the vision remains a dream.

For more on this subject, read:

8 Killers of Momentum and Motivation
The Power of Caged Momentum

How passionate are you today for your vision?

Great organizations, great people, and even great relationships are driven by vision, grounded by values and driven by passion.

Does this describe your organization? Is it representative of your marriage or your life? If not, which is missing?

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  • Kent Julian says:

    Authentic success is definitely attainable via vision, values, and passion. I would also add that the pursuit of worthwhile goals is another essential for long-term success since solid goals are key to moving in the right direction. The synergism that exists among all four of these ingredients definitely creates the recipe for a long-term success. Great ideas here, Ron!

  • Jim Rippey
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    I like it! Passion motivates persistence.
    God bless

  • I can understand the importance of vision in success of an oragnization.

    – Vision empowers people with focus. I remember the old adage: “Where the focus goes, the power flows.”

    – Without clear vision, employees feel they are on a ship without a rudder. Many years back George Washington Carver has written, “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.”

    – Vision raises an expected standard for achievement. It causes all to join together to accomplish more than one person alone.

    – Vision inspires a commitment toward tomorrow. (Aristotle stated, “The soul never thinks without a mental picture.”)

    – Vision clarifies the organization’s direction.