So You Want To Be A Powerful Communicator?

When Martin Luther King stood on the steps and proclaimed “I have a dream!” he did more than give a speech. On that famous day, Martin Luther King shared his vision with the world. A vision of America free of racial segregation and hatred.

When John F. Kennedy announced that he saw a man on the moon, he gave his vision to the world. And the country sprang into action to make it happen.

When those great men communicated, their power did not come from their words. Their power came from their vision. The visions they projected to the world changed the course of history and the lives of millions of people. Their visions were a map of the future.

Have you ever been talking to someone and ‘got the picture’? Have you ever been explaining something and the person you’re talking to lights up and says, “I get it”? What is this thing that we’re passing back and forth in our communication? Is it really just words that we are sending back and forth to each other? Or is there more to our communication than just the sounds that come out of our mouths?

Yes! What we are really communicating to each other is our visions.

Powerful communicators always communicate in known visions – the words they use are just signposts pointing to the vision. Poor communicators are unaware that they are sending visions, or indeed, what those visions look like.

In business, in politics, in life, we speak about where we see ourselves in the future. What do you see in your future? Your dream house, your dream job, your dream life? But what is it exactly that you are ‘seeing’? You’re seeing the vision you have created of your future. This vision is made of the same stuff and behaves in the same way as the vision that you project when you speak.

The speed at which your vision of the future becomes a reality depends on how strongly you project that vision. Just as MLK and JFK redirected the future of our world, so too your visions change the direction of your life. When MLK and JFK projected their vision of the future, they did it so powerfully that people got it, and it happened. The visions you project of yourself today are creating your life of tomorrow. That is the power of effective communication.

How powerful is your communication? Do people get what you say, do they see the picture? Or do you fail to get your point across and blame them for not listening to you?

By now I hope you can see the importance of understanding exactly what a vision is and how to use them to direct your life in the direction you want.

(Taken from Chapter 5 of “Blueprint – Change Your Life From the Inside Out”. Get your copy here)

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